Blue In Green
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Current cruise missile delivery system is useless and inefficient. Iran would need to have 20 single launcher tels trucks to launch just a 20 cruise missile salvo. It needs to create a 4-6 TEL cruise launcher. Single missile launcher makes sense for anti ship cruise missile as the target is vulnerable to even a single hit. An airbase or military base or convoy is not.
Meanwhile all the major powers can fire 100 salvo off of one large cruiser.
While I do agree with your overall statement and I also think Iran has to improve it's ability to launch these weapons off of many different platforms rather than just a single launcher off of a truck. Recently, I had a talk with one of the patrons here on PDF not too long ago. We we going over the video/pictures showing Iran launching a missile from a truck that had clear retractable panels that shielded the anti-ship cruise weapons inside. But logic would indicate that this platform which held the cruise missile was meant to look like any old truck. So maybe this sort of thinking is what the Iranians are going for when it comes to how they will field these long range missile systems.
A numerous amount of cruise missiles spread out all over Iran in trucks and platforms that are indistinguishable from ordinary civilian vehicles. But a tell with 3 or more tubes for the cruise missiles is also viable and probably what Iran is working on since we do see images of trucks that have 3 tubes for cruise missiles on them.
Just a thought, sorry for any grammatical errors lol.