With modern R-500 missile it can fire twice as far as Alexander the Great (or, in Persian, "Iskander") had gone in his conquers.
RB>>> He was a Greek who conquered (among other places) quite a big chunk RB>>> of both Iraq and Iran, and was the only one so far to have conquered RB>>> Afghanistan. There may have been some who laughed at him, too, but RB>>> they didn't keep their heads for long. AV>> Conquer != regulate RB> That's what you think. He even adopted some of the customs of the RB> countries he conquered, and married one of the nobles (Roxanne) to RB> integrate himself into the societies and demonstrate his right to RB> rule.
That's "conquer and rule", not only "conquer".
-- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-cmlxxvii-mmxlviii