Do they have any launch sites left? If so, I suspect they won’t be there for very much longer if they do launch any missiles towards our fleet.
It appears that they have been attacking Israel using mobile launchers. The Scud and the Iranian missiles do not seem to be much advanced over the V-2. The V-2 had a ballistic error of about 10 miles. The Scud about a mile. These seem be closer to a few hundred yards. They almost certainly use inertial guidance which is immune from jamming, but expensive and not very accurate.
Antiship missiles tend to rely on radar homing and infrared. Ships stand out a mile in the sea unlike targets embedded in natural and urban land clutter. But warship bristle with missile defense systems which is why the Houthis could never hit them. It might be possible for the Iranians to saturate the defenses, and I am certain they are getting targeting information form Soviet and Chinese satellites.
The attacks on Fordow were carried out by B-2s, the other plants struck by the United States were attacked using submarine launched cruise missiles, which use GPS, terrain mapping and inertial guidance. They are not dependent on any one technology.
They use mobile launchers. When I was in the Army in Germany, I was in a Pershing battalion. The Pershing, at the time, was an inertial missile, which means it was guided by measuring acceleration and pointing. It was sort of like firing artillery. In order to hit anything you had to know where you launched from, where your target was, what direction you were looking, and what your latitude was. Latitude determined the effect of earth’s rotation.
In order to know where you are, Germany was littered with thousands of field artillery survey markers. There was also a TOP SECRET catalogue of survey points, explaining how to find them, their coordinates, and landmarks indicating compass directions such as church steeples, with line and ink drawings of the landmarks. The existence of the catalog was not a secret, it’s contents were.
I suppose the Iranian missileers use familiar surveyed sites rather than GPS or other ways of determining location. Even if they use GPS, they would still need to determine direction, something that compass readings or GPS could not easily or accurately supply.
Their launch site to target America are already in America just waiting yo be activated.........courtesy Barry, Brandon, The Cackler, Maydorkas and the democrats. Time to lock and load.
Their launch site to target America are already in America just waiting yo be activated.........courtesy Barry, Brandon, The Cackler, Maydorkas and the democrats. Time to lock and load.