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[quote name='Naresh' date='31 July 2010 - 10:15 AM' timestamp='1280599620' post='107703']

1. Can any Container Ship can carry a Cruise or other Missile surreptitiously in a Container? : [color="#FF0000"][size="6"]YES[/size][/color]



2. In this case the “Missile” is not declared as part of the Ship’s Cargo.



3. If “Detected” then the Consequences : NOT NEED TO PUT IT IN WORDS



4. Thus, for the sake of discussion, a Cruise Missile can be “Packed” into an FEU and stored on board any Dry Cargo Ship as many ships carry “Emergency Generators” stowed on a part of the Ship’s Deck or even on the Hatch Covers.



However :



AA : It cannot be “Landed” at any port except in the case of a Terrorist dominated Region - Country - Port.



BB : It cannot be “Launched” from on board the ship E X C E P T if the ship is especially adapted which adaptation cannot be “hidden” or even camouflaged.



There are easier ways to deliver a Cruise Missile in any part of the World – so long as it has a Coastline and may be – I have no knowledge about it and can only speculate – by a “Heavy Lift Aircraft” with far more ease than by a Container ship.



Cheers

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As a partial reply, just count the number of cargo ships capable of carrying a few containers plying the oceans at any given instant of time and count the number of "Heavy Lift Aircraft" airborne at any given instant of time. The former outnumbers the latter by many orders of magnitude. So, which do you think would carry the greater degree of surprise and which would push surveillance requirements to the brink?