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Two points: Irans missiles are not expensive "get me the best there is" strategic nuclear BMs, the are designed to be cost effective weapons. Second: The missiles in storage are mainly empty metal shells in deep tunnels, nothing can blow up. Solid fuel missile make up only a small part of Irans...

I appreciate your content too. Two things: I never said its a good future fighter engine, just that it is a good replacement for the Owj on the Kowsar and F-5 fleet. I'm also not talking about the current FJ33 but a scale up to FJ44 size + after burner. This engine has just 3 axial compressor...

Iran will likely work on a new family based on the FJ33 core, Jahesh-700. FJ33 upscaled to FJ44 level with added afterburner, would be an ideal turbofan engine for the F-5. ~40% more thrust and the fuel efficiency benefits a turbofan creates. FJ33 core is very simple and offers a good basis...

36h x 400km/h is 14.000km, so 7000km radius. S-149 Gaza?

This is a delayed ship, a project started nearly a decade ago. VLS project came later. It may get upgraded with VLS in future.

Usually such critical systems are not shown. I mean its a key system to break the U.S airpower kill-chain, by targeting the support aircrafts. A main task of the IRGC-ASF to lessen the pressure on IRIAF and IRIADF. Wonder where that info comes from.

Subsonic LO bombers must excel at range performance, fly around threats from unusual directions. A turbofan is a must have in such a scenario, hence Owj is a bad choice. Absolutely impossible, even for the corrupt Yelsin era

VHF communication jammer

Yes this time cold launch is a must have, the central arrangement would make hot gas deflection to large in size.

That may come for a VLS system. Its already compact but would get more compact, approaching the 16 missiles of Tor-M2. Its currently empty nose can be use for thruster pivot system, which is needed for a VLS SR-SAM.

The usual problem with propulsion... That thing has literary the strongest jet engines in the world. I love it too, but Iran is far away. Maybe a liquid rocket engine based platform will be a alternative in the future. Or avoid the supersonic path (enemy IR sensors) and go for a flying wing...

Yes, its command guided and uses side arrays for radar proximity fuse. No need for a radome.

The radar payload in SAR or GMTI probably has a max range of 500km, against large objects.

Well, maybe the main motivation is to put S-149 into containers, store them in mountain bunkers and once the first week of high intensity warfare is over, Iran has spent 80% of its missiles and all its bases have been hit by CMs and hypersonic weapons, nuclear weapons, and the enemy has spent...

Ok, an Ababil with small Qaem PGMs is sufficient for smugglers and insurgents. S-129 and -149 are beyond that. They are sufficient against less advanced countries AND theaters where enemy high capability counter-air assets have been neutralized. So you won't send them in as the first wave, but...

It's a IRGC-ASF project, so it will surely be serial produced. But without an cheap Iranian turboprop, numbers won't go high. S-149 is much better at carrying ammunition, so in the UCAV role 3 S-129 could scan a large area and request S-149 if anything needs to be bombed. With 5 Sadids internal...

True and they want to replace the MQ-9 with a flying wing drone. Costs don't matter much to them. But Shahed-129 with its Rotax motor simply has extremely low operation costs, SAR and optical payloads. Shahed-149 on the other hand has a turboprop = a turbine engine. Costs more and needs more...

@TheImmortal There is false impression how much the Israelis know and what they are able to attack and when. Syrian Pantsir and Buk already intercept a good portion of Israeli Delilah CM attacks. 9th Day in a whole battalion means 96 ready to fire missiles with 32 simultaneous interceptions...

Sayyad-2 option is for special cases, Taer series is the main weapon. 9th Day is basically a missile CIWS Drive or fly them in and put them immediately active. But I'm just talking, no need to do that atm.

So now 3rd Khordad is Syria ready, protected by 9th Day against Delilah ;)