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CENTCOM calls it a SAM but xbat says its not... who to believe?

G forces are a huge problem for guidance electronics of MaRV. In the past avionics were even submerged in oil to survive 100-300 g of re-entry.

Mate, release your frustration on the somewhat slow pace of Indian missile development somewhere else... this is the main Iranian sticky thread on missiles. At least when you would have argued with g-forces that occur instead of the temperature argument...

Soviets and Chinese predicted desert storm would become Vietnam for the U.S? Maybe they expected desert storm to be a full invasionnof Iraq and not a limited operation? No one knew the U.S would set a 12 year long siege on Iraq, hit and run attack it for 12 years to safely defeat and this time...

@VEVAK Your wish has come true, Iran has developed micro-jet powered missiles.

Without component malfunction, the Simorgh has no thrust problem. Nor is the second stage of the Simorgh of importance, its motors are a technological deadend. Iran needs the promised higher thrust motors for the Sarir second stage and the Simorgh has already tested its first stage. If the...

Aluminium is good enough for liquid fuel SLVs. Carbon composite pays off if you have solid fuel which creates immense stress on the casing.

Iran has a basket of targets which are again divided to targets that pose a offensive capability against Iran or not. So it has a kind of map on where the highest threat assets are from Irans borders and the amount of them compared to each range. Raad-500 and Qiam cover the bulk of those...

Time for some math: Anyone wondered if it is worth it to go for a separating RV on the Raad-500, Zolfaghar and Dezful instead to do it like the Fateh, Iskander, LORA, N- and S- Korean "Iskanders" and all other Iskander like systems like China and Ukraine? RCS and smaller size are benefits for...

Then instead of a ICBM disguised as SLV it would be a ICBM tech. demonstrator and a effective ASAT mssile. Its always about what "go ahead" is given by the government. Equip it with a 50% lager diameter first stage and that light SLV/ASAT missile becomes a light ICBM. Actually an ASAT missile...

Rather 4 Ghadr motors plus 4 Iranian designed veniers with their own turbopump. Getting that whole configuration to work is not easy. Cost of a "commercial" class SLV also always play a role. 150t thrust is what Russian Kosmos-3M employed to bring 1,5t into LEO. So if thats the goal and you...

You look at it from the wrong direction. Simorghs core is its first stage that has worked flawlessly. The second stage is just a Safir x 2 that burns longer. That tech. is already dead and has no growth potential. But Simorgh first stage is so "over-thrust" that it's mastered product will be...

Again premature shut down or too low thrust of the second stage, like the last time. Did one of the two turbopumps fail? Or one of the four motors did a safety shut down? A software error that shut off the second stage? No Saman thrid stage was present, they wanted to keep it simple. Maybe the...

It's a thermal material science and cost issue for Iran. When will THAAD, Arrow-3 and SM-3 become such a hurdle that hypersonic cruise is felt necessary? At the moment Irans lower spectrum "hypersonics" such as the Dezful are already there. Longer range hypersonics, where thermal management...

Of importance is to have small MaRVs that have smaller RCS and can maneuver better. Then the design of the F-313 was still more complex with end caps and a composite matrix instead of a pure filament design. It seems Iran is now able to produce sufficiently high tensile strength carbon fiber...

Ok, some facts about the Raad-500 - It is 1-1,5m shorter than the Fateh series and casing is fully composite: No metalic top cap and likely also no metalic end cap. - Nose angle of RV is significantly steeper, which together with the increased range allows for a rather high terminal and impact...

So it seems like this summer Iran will have it's first ICBM test flight with the Zoljanah "SLV". The first stage will likely be a heavy high strength steel one to reduce performance and let it look too heavy for a mobile system. In best case it is already compact with a smaller graphite first...

It's a cost issue. One could imagine paying money for such a flex nozzle system to counter exo-atmospheric systems like the THAAD. But no: better thermal shielding + fins and a shallow attack trajectory is the solution to counter more advanced ABM. This thing makes sense for a high value...

So with the Salman, Iran has become a missile power with flex nozzle technology. Salman is a good second or third stage for a light ICBM. Iran has defacto displayed full ICBM tech. Big first stage boosters visible via satellite Flex nozzle >1m dia. casing carbon/graphite casing. Both...

U.S warfare is based on tactical airpower. Once disabled for a period of time, operations in all of the region can start.