Posted on 04/03/2006 4:42:51 AM PDT by Flavius
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran will test-fire a powerful torpedo and more missiles in Gulf war games, the spokesman for this week's military exercises said, vowing Tehran would fend off any aggression on its soil. ADVERTISEMENT click here
"A powerful torpedo made by the Revolutionary Guards will be tested today in the Persian Gulf," Rear Admiral Mohammad Ebrahim Dehqani said, quoted on state television on Monday.
He added that more missiles would be test-fired within days and that the Iranian people would have "important news that will make them proud".
Iran said Sunday it has successfully test-fired a new high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying large warships and submarines.
Dehqani also told the official IRNA news agency that "one of the messages of the war games for the enemies is that if they slightly violate the Islamic republic's interests in the Persian Gulf, we will firmly confront them".
Thousands of Iranian troops are conducting war games in Iran's southern waters to prepare the armed forces for warding off "threats" amid increasing tensions with the West over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
The maneuvers are to involve the Revolutionary Guards Corps navy and air force, Iran's regular army and navy, the volunteer Basij militia, and the Iranian police.
They kicked off last Friday and are due to run until Thursday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/02/uiran.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/02/ixportaltop.html
Iran says it has test fired the world's fastest underwater missile during a week of war games in the Gulf, according to reports.
A caption on the country's state television said: "The world's fastest underwater missile was successfully test fired on the third day of the 'Holy Prophet war games'."
Western nations have been watching developments in Iran's missile capabilities with interest amid concerns over Teheran's nuclear programme.
The West says Iran is attempting to build atomic bombs but the country insists the programme is civilian.
On Friday, Iran's armed forces said they had successfully test fired a domestically produced missile from land which could evade radar.
Iranian state television had said that missile was called Fajr-3.
Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards air force, did not name the new weapon or give the missile's range, saying it depended on the warhead weight.
that has nothing to do with this, they have something else
"Dehqani also told the official IRNA news agency that "one of the messages of the war games for the enemies is that if they slightly violate the Islamic republic's interests in the Persian Gulf, we will firmly confront them"
I doubt We'll 'slightly violate' their republic. It will be more like 'totally violate'. Let's Roll!
More jobs for Electric Boat
LOL!
HA! That's a joke....Their "Revolutionary Guards" wouldn't have the combined brain power to build a bottle rocket...
But I suppose that it would deflate the collective pride in their 11th century cult to admit that either they bought it outright from Russia, or that their Russian advisors built it in Iran with them watching.
Star Trek may have been a bunch of globalist mongrelized kumbayah silliness, but the Prime Directive was spot-on.
Thank you Russia for making the World a safer place.
We apparently already have such weapons and are perfecting new and better ones as well as countermeasures. You can bet that if it is talked about in magazines, we already have them. Remember, any unconventional or advanced weapons systems would most likely remain top secret indefinitely until called upon. You never let your enemies know your true capabilities.
Warp Drive Underwater
http://www.diodon349.com/Kursk-Memorial/Warpdrive_underwater.htm
This is not something the Iranians came up with themselves.
imo
They better pray to Allah, they don't hit a whale. Don't want to piss off Green Peace and the Libs.
According to the link in post #12, this is Russian technology and has been sold to France, China and Iran.
Hats off to the Ruskies for making the world a safer place..../sarcasmoff
This weapon is a short-range noise maker that only serves as a last-ditch retalliation weapon, and only if nuclear-armed. A solid rocket motor of this size probably has at best 1 to 2 minute burn time which at 200 knots means 3.5 to 7 miles. That is not even half way to over-the-horizon. At 200 knots the noise would get to the target about 4.5 times faster. Plenty of time to get a vector on the source. If that little sucker doesn't pack a nuke, the launching vessel has simply sent a message saying vaporize me, and then vaporize the entire Iranian military.
So...I'm in favor of this weapon! Remember Lepanto.
Yep. I would imagine this sort of "super cavitation" device makes quite a racket. Considering that we can monitor ordinary ship movements in the Med from off our east coast, and have since at least the late 1950's, I guess this thing leads ever greater creedence to the notion that the reason the Iranian Navy uses glass bottom boats is so they can see their Air Force......
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