Iran unveils another missile (Endless numbers of new weapons by Iran. How many more?)

Middle East Newsline ^ | 2006 Apr 7

[CPOSharky]

Witness the "flying boat which can launch missiles in flight" Iran trotted out last week. Hah! It looks like plywood with a Briggs & Stratton.

The seaplane doesn't look like it has a large payload. What kind of missile can it carry, bottle rockets?

[Mustng959]

~ "Today we have successfully tested a new air-to-sea-and-ground missile capable of being fired from planes and helicopters, which can evade anti-missile missiles," IRGC spokesman Rear Adm. Mohammed Ibrahim Dehqani said. ~

Yea, but they don't know that we know that they don't know that we have anti-missile, anti-missile missiles that renders their anti-missile missiles obsolete.

[rjp2005]

ha ha ha. Yep - and we've got the ANTI-MISSILE INFINITY PLUS INFINITY MISSILE, which can evade and hit any anti-missle missle that will ever be built.

Seriously, though anyone have an idea of which Russian missle this "new" one is a copy/reverse engineered version of? Iran's indigenous tech may be far behind us, but Russian stuff isnt and that's usually where they get it.

[rjp2005]

From globalsecurity under missiles: "Iranian manufactured rockets launchers include the Haseb, an Iranian 12 tube 107 mm MRL that is a variant of a Chinese 107 mm rocket, as well as variants of Chinese and Russian 122 mm rockets such as the NOOR and Hadid 40 tube 122 mm MRL systems and the Arash version of the 122mm Katyusha MRL."

Sounds like the NOUR is a variant of the NOOR which is either a carbon copy of a CHINESE weapon or an altered version.

[RightWhale]

they only have 1

They had one. It has been classed as undetectable since they haven't found where it went.

[Billthedrill]

Oh No, a missile fired from a plane that can hit the sea or ground?

It's worse than that. It's incredibly accurate - they can hit the ground 100% of the time.

This latest bluster is laughable, actually. The idea is to impress people that an attack on Iran would unleash a high-tech inferno. In point of fact this isn't even decent fakery, and the pros charged with planning such an attack aren't impressed.

I do think we need to keep a careful eye on their ballistic missile program, though. One of these things shot at Tel Aviv needs to be pretty accurate. Shot at mainland Europe, it doesn't.