Military briefing: How Iran keeps firing missiles under bombardment

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Iran, quite long ago, appears to have taken some measures to ensure security forces can keep active in the event of a ‘decapitation’ strike on leadership,” said Robert Tollast of the Royal United Services Institute in London. “Local commanders have a good sense of what to do if there are no orders. In practical terms, this still requires command and control infrastructure of some kind.”...Given that radios and cell phones would be intercepted, he said, missile crews might be using field telephones or even messengers to communicate. There had also been reports of a military fibre-optic system, Tollast said.