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Yeah a sound decision because something like the Pershing-2 was too fragile and expensive, but also still not accurate enough. How you want to target mobile missile units over extended ranges? If you want to invade far away countries, yes, something like Su-57, F-22, Mig-31 or J-20 is...

Diego Garcia should be handled with a Khorrmashahr variant. Count on a Salman based ICBM, not the Zoljanah. What about the U.S setting up a bridgehead near the place it wants to attack and use BM's? They chose LACM because they had no BM that could do that job back then. FYI their new...

Maybe, but lets hope for the IRGC come up with something mobile and small, based on Salman technology. Zoljanah technology is cost efficient, but not as survivable due to it very high weight. Zoljanah technology was also originally developed by the IRGC but passed to the space agency after...

Well 3000km is not easy to achieve cost effectively, but yes they could develop a single stage missile with a cost efficient solid fuel. They will be forced to do so sooner or later. Unfortunately no Midgetman used much higher technology than Zoljanah does. Midgetmen technology is at the level...

They still believe their multi-decade, multi-billion investment in airpower is sufficient. BM's only with nuclear warheads. Their BM are not designed to be cost efficient, like Irans are.

Seems a little desperate move to counter Iranian gliding MaRV and future HGVs. It may work in some kinds of engagements but generally an expensive solution against an inexpensive weapon. At the moment they have no counter at all, so at least it will boost the more to have something that may...

Probably two rotax or similar engines, not a turboprop. IRIAF SSJ project, it wont be very spectacular.

Zoljanah uses very mature, safe and cheap solid fuel booster technology, proven from serial produced Sejil. The larger or more advanced boosters are from the IRGC-ASF SSJ. These are much more powerful but also much more secret. Soroush-2 is again a space agency project with commercial and...

What you describe is a FOBS, its a little different to a pure ballistic missile.

Its a SLV. After the Salman was shown last year, it is clear that the IRGC-ASF could build much more powerful missile than the Sejil era derived Zoljanah.

It would would be very useful for fire control tracking radars, aligned by traditional radar waves. Later also for volume search to replace radio waves completely.

Generally speaking yes. Due to very high altitude launch and mach 2+ speed, 500km range Iskander based Kinzhal reaches 2000km.

Iran needs range. Su-30 with such a range weapon would hardly be able to fly out to 1000km. Iran lacks propulsion for the Tu-22M3 like supersonic bomber and hence could only try to build a LO Simorgh Bomber with internal carriage of 2-4 Raad-500 variants.

Raad-500 already reached 500km from the ground, it would reach at least 1000km with airlaunch. However I would not use a high RCS airplane as platform. What would make sense is a long range low RCS platform that is able to create a real benefit, by flying up to 300km close to enemy airborders...

Well, do you know then that Indonesian radar was first shown? Kafesh-3 was first shown in 2018. The photo is altered to exclude some elements but it is not really a photoshop. I'd say if the Indonesian variant was not showed before the Iranian one in 2018, we are safe to assume it was either a...

Ok I guess you want the Raad-500 range at horizontal air launch. Difficult to say but 1000km should be reasonable. That's why I want to see a Simorgh based bomber with such weapons.

For not happening that Indonesian radar looks too identical to the Kashef-3 which is clearly an evolution of the Kashef-1. Iran developed the Kashef-3, but prefers the Kavosh/Kasta-2 radar over it. So either this was a cooperation based on Kashef-2, or Indonesians did what Iranians did in the...

Thats indeed the Kashef-3. Iran and Indonesia cooperate on radars, nice to see the fruits.

One time Isteel attacked Iranians and killed them. As a result Fateh-110 flew over the Golan into Israel. Another time when it happens a Urgan launched all it's rockets into Israel. They know that Iranian lives is the limit, otherwise they could easily kill Iranians every day there. Deterrence.

That statement becomes true and certain, if the system does not use traditional radar ;)