When an Iranian ballistic missile launcher breaks cover to dash towards a firing site, its tiny cabin suddenly becomes one of the world’s most perilous places.
If its crew do not give the drones and satellites above them the slip, within minutes the launcher — a truck-style vehicle equipped with an ejector to propel a hulking missile at high speed — will be hit by a missile from above, becoming a smouldering wreck.
Farzin Nadimi, an expert on the Iranian missile programme at The Washington Institute, said: “This is the most dangerous job on earth right now. We are probably talking about a life expectancy of days, and soon it will be hours.”
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