On 4/27/2010 12:18 PM, Rick Jones wrote:

Make certain though you pay extra for top-stacking on the container
ship with nothing on either end of your container. Which will of
course make them a little more conspicuous.

I'd have to check, but if Russia itself deployed these, they might be in
violation of some arms treaties, particularly due to the fact that they
are disguised not to appear to be launchers.
Somebody over in Russia sure spotted a potential customer market though,
and many countries would line up for them, or just have a ball making
others think they might have them.
By the end of the week, Israel will claim Iran is going to buy them,
Iran will claim they have had their indigenous version in service for
years, Russia will claim China has stolen the design and is making a
rip-off version which they have sold to Pakistan, Pakistan will say the
only reason they got them is because India bought some from the US, and
the US will tell Israel to shut the **** up and stop selling our
technology to the Chinese.

Pat