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Excuse me. I thought you were suggesting to use a long range cruise missile as a Noor/C-802 anti ship missile, something that only has been achieved by the Russian Navy or PLAN. If it is not, I am wrong.BM or CM? If CM, would love to see Iran finally move away from C-802 based family of CMs and use other designs such as Ya Ali or Mobin (stealth CM) in conjunction with these swarm missiles.
I saw a video about two days ago where Sadar Salami spoke extremely vaguely and briefly about its existence. I’ll try to find itIran mentioned the development of Supersonic CMs. This was pre COVID. Thus I think we can say with a reasonable certainty that Iran likely had a supersonic CM prototype developed somewhere in last 3 years.
supersonic CM is no longer rare cutting edge tech as even Russian now has hypersonic CM developed and I believe both China/US are developing their own hypersonic CM (not to be confused with Hypersonic Glide Vehicle - HGV).
If I remember correctly, Iran has been working on supersonic CMs since at least 2016. It is indeed not ideal for the c-802 to still be the backbone of the Iranian Navy.I saw a video about two days ago where Sadar Salami spoke extremely vaguely and briefly about its existence. I’ll try to find it
If I remember correctly, Iran has been working on supersonic CMs since at least 2016. It is indeed not ideal for the c-802 to still be the backbone of the Iranian Navy.
Yes, in 2019 Iran shows a ram-jet what is said to go for Mach 3. But me think at this time there was already a better in the making, what we see now.
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A couple more pics of the ship.
Indeed. This article from 2016 quotes Hossein Dehghan as saying Iran will be capable of producing supersonic cruise missiles in the near future: https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/...an-to-make-supersonic-cruise-missiles-soon-dmYes, in 2019 Iran shows a ram-jet what is said to go for Mach 3. But me think at this time there was already a better in the making, what we see now.
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It appears the development of a supersonic CM is taking longer than expected, but we can only speculate.
They can't keep it secret if they equip ships with it and there is not much point producing a supersonic cruise missile without equipping your military with it, so I doubt it is yet in mass production / operationLikely finished, just hasn’t been unveiled due to sensitive nature of weapon.
Iran usually follows two pathways to weapons unveiling:
1) Unveiled before it has even finished R&D and reached mass production (ex Gaza UAV & Soumar)
2) Finished and already begun mass production for some time (ex Kheibar Shekan Missile)