{"id":9592,"date":"2026-08-31T23:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9592"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:30:01","slug":"9592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/31\/9592\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/08\/31\/castle-breaker-missile-havoc-iran-us-war\/91496889007\/\">\u201cMeet &#8216;Castle Breaker,&#8217; Iran&#8217;s missile wreaking havoc in US war,\u201d<\/a> USA Today, 8-31-26.\u00a0\u00a0Kheibar Shekan, or &#8220;Castle Breaker,&#8221; which has a range of 900 miles and a satellite-guided, maneuverable warhead.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026 the Kheibar Shekan can quickly change course in the final phase of its descent, potentially slipping past air defenses and hitting targets with devastating precision, those sources said. Mounted on mobile launchers, the solid-fuel missile is extremely difficult to detect and destroy before launch, allowing it to survive American bombardment campaigns.\u201d\u00a0 &#8230; Since 2024, Iran has stacked on incremental improvements \u2013 likely with the help of Chinese and Russian technology.\u00a0 The updates include improved satellite guidance, altered launch trajectories that are harder for missile-defense radar to predict, better resistance to electronic jamming and coordinated barrages that mix ballistic missiles with swarms of drones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMeet &#8216;Castle Breaker,&#8217; Iran&#8217;s missile wreaking havoc in US war,\u201d USA Today, 8-31-26.\u00a0\u00a0Kheibar Shekan, or &#8220;Castle Breaker,&#8221; which has a range of 900 miles and a satellite-guided, maneuverable warhead.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026 the Kheibar Shekan can quickly change course in the final phase of its descent, potentially slipping past air defenses and hitting targets with devastating precision, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/31\/9592\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions\/9593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}