Posted on 04/07/2006 3:52:49 AM PDT by Wiz
NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iran has reported the test firing of its fourth new missile in less than a week.
Officials said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched the missile during the Holy Prophet exercise in the Gulf on Wednesday. They said the test was successful.
"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.
The missile was called Nour. As in previous announcements, Dehqani provided few details of the latest indigenous weapon.
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The seaplane doesn't look like it has a large payload. What kind of missile can it carry, bottle rockets?
~ "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.
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.
Sounds like the NOUR is a variant of the NOOR which is either a carbon copy of a CHINESE weapon or an altered version.
They had one. It has been classed as undetectable since they haven't found where it went.
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.
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