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Emad at 1600km has a CEP of 500 meters not 50! Not 5! But 500 meters! And with Ballistic missiles that means 1 out of 2 will land within 500 meters of the target!
That means Iran can target large facilities like power plants & sections of an Air Base or a Naval port but they can not target individual buildings or bunkers with it!
Zolfaghar & Fatteh Class missiles at 300-700km have a CEP of 50 meters! that means you can target large buildings, runways,... But you will not be able to successfully take out a heavily fortified Aircraft bunker. Now you can disrupt Air operations and damage some aircrafts but to take out the bunker it's self you'll need a CEP of 7 meters or less with a good size warhead
Now the Zolfaghar & Fatteh class have the potential of being upgraded with an additional counter imaging terminal phase like the Persian Gulf missile but they will be expensive
I think it would make more sense if Iran used a volley of Ballistic Missiles to disrupt Air Operations and go after larger Radar systems & then use cruise missiles & UCAV's to individually target buildings and bunkers.
Also, any GPS based Missiles or UAV's will be useless if war breaks out! Those systems can be turned off with a push of a button & worse yet they can be tracked before they are even launched & the nonsense that Israeli General is talking about is nothing more than misinformation to try to get Iran to use those systems for guidance!
Putting those GPS systems on your missiles is a grave mistake & it will allow the U.S. to track and locate every missile & UAV you have and find their bunkers! This is nothing more than misinformation & I hope Iran is not deluded enough to use them on any of their missiles! And yes you can have a few of your systems based on those GPS systems for anti-terrorist operations during peace time!
I dont know where you`re getting this 500m cep from as frankly I doubt that even the non emad warhead equipped ghidirs/shahab 3 using the old triconic warheads would have a cep that abysmal,in fact I would think that even their ceps would probably be less that half that at worst.To put this in perspective lets look at a roughly equivalent system to the emad the pershing 2,this medium ranged missile also used a terminally guided marv warhead to achieve a cep of around 30m,however this was done using mid 1970s technology so I would think that its probably very likely that iran could well have improved upon this thanks to the benefits of over 40+ years worth of technological development and advancements since then,I would think that at a minimum you`re looking at an accuracy of potentially at least 30m if not considerably better in fact and even with a cep of "only" 30m this would still allow you to have a very credible shot at targeting the larger hardened aircraft shelters such as the dual hanger types.
GPS receivers dont transmit they are passive so the idea that the us could somehow track you via a gps receiver in your weapons ins is very unlikely but I suppose there could always be the remote possibility of a back door installed in civilian receivers,also altho in theory the us could turn off the civilian gps signals in practice this would likely cause enormous problems and disruption just because of how many things there are that rely upon these systems in todays world,altho one possibility would be to shut down coverage over one geographical area,however this wouldnt affect other positioning systems like he existing glonass or the up and coming beidou or Galileo systems so the best option would be to use two or three of these positioning systems in your weapons and to make very sure that you had good backups if these are unreliable or unavailable as using just gps or indeed any positioning system as your weapons sole form of guidance system would be very,very unwise. .