So?
I was talking about quantity, not quality.
That's silly. There is no point even having a navy if you don't intend for it to be equipped for any feasible situation, whatever the perceived enemy.
Why even make a 300+ ft long ship if you don't intend to arm it properly.
I'm sure
@PeeD can tell you how cheap these missiles are, and believe me they make them like candy. They fire off 300 km Qaders like they are nothing in annual war games.
I'm betting Iran has hundreds of Noors in stockpiles. Remember, we have loads of shore based launchers as well.
I miss read your 1st quote! Sorry!
Again if you look at Iran's Navy as a tool to be used in case of a U.S. attack then YES! Against the U.S. in the 1st day blitz attack 80-90% of Iran's Blue Water Navy + 70% of Iranian FAC over 120ft long will be destroyed in the 1st day so the more ships you have the more of them are likely to survive
And 300 ft long with a 10ft draought isn't really that big and even at 300ft the mowj class gets thrown side to side violently when their at high seas and comparatively the ship's draought is 3 times smaller than the Ticonderoga Class & Virginia class cruisers draft so they really aren't that big!
So why build them? Again your looking at Iran's Navy as a tool to be used in a war against the U.S. as if they don't conduct any other missions or have any other use!
I would directly contribute the growth of Iran's Civilian Naval industry to Iran's Navy because without the Navy Iran wouldn't have enough properly trained personal to expand on that industry domestically and that is far more valuable than a few ships to be used to fend off a war against the U.S. if and when there is one!
Ghatreh Ghatreh jam gardad vangani darya shaved! And Iran's Navy truly knows the value of that and until they build a good size fleet they will likely allocate their resources as such that allows them to do that with the limited funding that they have!
And once they have the fleet that they want & the country takes the civilian naval industry to the level that they want then and only then can they start discussions about reallocating resources towards fuel, manpower & increased number of weapons on each platform rather than R&D & continued expansion of facilities, tools & platforms
I personally would like to see their FAC to be redesigned so they could potentially carry more missiles & more fuel because more of them are more likely survive an initial US strike
And firing those missiles at high seas when the ship is being rocked left and right is NOT possible and at the end of the day your vessel needs enough stability, protection & countermeasures for the benefits to out way the cost of house a large stock of missiles and the Mowj class is just too small
And the notion that they can build as many missiles as they want is just NOT true! And it's not about the financial cost of each missile rather than the production capacity of it's components
Right now they need to build Turbojet engines for
Ghadir Antiship cruise missile & Nasir (not to be confused with Nasr) Ground, ship & air launched
Ya Ali Cruise Missile, Soumar, Karrar, Simorgh & various other UAV's that require jet engines
Air Force also has PGM that require jet engines like the Qassed-3
And various Aircraft in Iran operate off Iranian built Jet engines & or none Iranian engines that require a constant supply of Iranian jet engine parts
And the fact is Iran didn't increase Jet Engine production as fast and as much as they increased platforms that require them and it doesn't matter how much the engines cost because you are limited by the number of tools, facilities & manpower to produce them
For example if your max capacity without a major investment in tools & facilities was 300 toloue engines per year & before you were producing 200 for 2 platforms today your producing 300 for 10 different platforms that's only 30 a year for each platform being distributed to various branches of the military (this is just a example)
So it has nothing to do with the cost of the engine it's self or the tech to build them & because these companies aren't privet companies hell bent on increasing sales & production to make more money, the growth of these facilities are restricted to direct government & MOD funding
And it's not just about the engine the same argument holds on various components that are used on all of them from sensors, avionics, INS,....