Karrar 🏴🇵🇰

Capitals under siege ... Iran-Iraq 🇮🇷⚔🇮🇶 Scud duels !! War of the Cities involved five periods of systematic and intense bombardments with missiles 🚀 from 1984-88 in early months of each year ... Iraqi army fired 533 ballistic missiles on 27 Iranian cities and territories. It caused the deaths of 2300+ civilians and injured 11k others. FROG-7, Scud B, and Al-Hussein (a modified long range version of the Scud) were used. Tehran, isfahan, Qom were major targets as 25% population of iranian capital fled the city in panic. Iran bought limited Scud from syria, libya and fired 22 on Baghdad. But major help came from North Korea 🇰🇵 when Hwasong 5 entered the service in 1987 and 95+ were launched against Saddam Hossein regime, which caused big psychological impact & hundreds of casualties. It was the first time after WW2 when urban centres/capitals were targeted with B.M waves like V2 on London. In jan 2024, IRGC launched couple of projectiles into Panjgur district of Balochistan 🇵🇰 but PAF retaliated in kind with ops marg bar sarmachar. Iran learnt its lesson and reverse engineered Hwasong into Shahab-1/2 to maintain deterrence and the rest is history. This episode laid the foundations of current middle eastern geo politics as ballistic missile arsenal became a negotiating tactic, even with U.S What do you think, how important is conventional magazine depth for B.M/C.M to put 'fear of God' into the heart of enemy. Can Pakistan 🇵🇰 build assymetric weapons en mass & ensure BMD shield with HQ-9 variants ⁉️⁉️