Sayeret
08-12-2004, 05:40 PM
Nuclear Weapons
The main potential targets of nuclear weapons include: hardened military targets and key political and military command-and-control centres; major troop and armour concentrations; dispersal areas; logistics centres; air bases; ports, as well as key infrastructure installations (oil and power facilities, desalination plants, etc). Major civilian population centres may be targeted in order to force dispersal of population, achieve wholesale terror and destroy the political and economic infrastructure of a nation.
Biological Weapons
The main potential targets of biological weapons include: troop concentrations; dispersal areas; logistics centres; command and control centres; air bases; ports; key infrastructure installations (oil and power facilities, desalination plants, etc), and civilian population centres. The contamination of water supplies would seriously hamper the ability of an army to wage war. Biological weapons also have naval applications. An attack on a ship would contaminate the vessel and crew, reducing or destroying its operational efficiency. This would be particularly useful against large ships that can withstand multiple conventional hits (such as the large US fleet aircraft carriers). Significantly, in exercises during the summer of 1995, Iranian forces used helicopters to spray their own ships with aerosol liquids, suggesting the development of a capability to use biological and/or chemical weapons against oil tanker movements in the strategically vital Persian Gulf.
Chemical Weapons
The potential targets of chemical weapons include: troop concentrations; dispersal areas; logistics centres; command and control centres; air bases; ports; key infrastructure installations (oil and power facilities, desalination plants, etc); civilian population centres.
Radiological Weapons
Potential targets for radiological weapons include population centres, where RW may cause mass casualties over both the short and long term and force large-scale evacuation. Radioactive substances could also be used to contaminate the water supplies of an adversary. Nuclear reactors could be attacked with the intent of causing a radiological incident.
The main potential targets of nuclear weapons include: hardened military targets and key political and military command-and-control centres; major troop and armour concentrations; dispersal areas; logistics centres; air bases; ports, as well as key infrastructure installations (oil and power facilities, desalination plants, etc). Major civilian population centres may be targeted in order to force dispersal of population, achieve wholesale terror and destroy the political and economic infrastructure of a nation.
Biological Weapons
The main potential targets of biological weapons include: troop concentrations; dispersal areas; logistics centres; command and control centres; air bases; ports; key infrastructure installations (oil and power facilities, desalination plants, etc), and civilian population centres. The contamination of water supplies would seriously hamper the ability of an army to wage war. Biological weapons also have naval applications. An attack on a ship would contaminate the vessel and crew, reducing or destroying its operational efficiency. This would be particularly useful against large ships that can withstand multiple conventional hits (such as the large US fleet aircraft carriers). Significantly, in exercises during the summer of 1995, Iranian forces used helicopters to spray their own ships with aerosol liquids, suggesting the development of a capability to use biological and/or chemical weapons against oil tanker movements in the strategically vital Persian Gulf.
Chemical Weapons
The potential targets of chemical weapons include: troop concentrations; dispersal areas; logistics centres; command and control centres; air bases; ports; key infrastructure installations (oil and power facilities, desalination plants, etc); civilian population centres.
Radiological Weapons
Potential targets for radiological weapons include population centres, where RW may cause mass casualties over both the short and long term and force large-scale evacuation. Radioactive substances could also be used to contaminate the water supplies of an adversary. Nuclear reactors could be attacked with the intent of causing a radiological incident.