Agreed. Here's a Sunburn.
Posted on 02/25/2007 5:07:48 PM PST by Flavius
Iran's Revolutionary Guards test-fired missiles on Thursday that a commander said could sink "big warships" in the Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, the state broadcaster said.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31412011af
They bounce nicely.
seaRAM system > sunburn.
Not good.
Not good at all.
On the one hand you have the nutjob just begging to get whacked and GWB trying the diplomatic approach. Who's the real aggressor here : iranian punk or US COP?
"They bounce nicely. "
Dunno, I would have to check for myself.
TOR 1 exercises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VySDaGtA2P8&NR
Good name for this missile. If they ever use one to sink a "big warship," Ahmadinijad & Co. will probably end up with a pretty bad "sunburn." Like SPF 5000 wouldn't stop.
It was a SILKWORM not a SUNBURN missle in the video (of course incorrectly IDed as a SUNBURN by the website.)
The Silkworm is essentially a slight Chinese modification of the 1950s-era Russian subsonic Styx missle.
Sunburn is an early-80s missile that has Mach-2ish speed and is a lot more capable, though still frantically overhyped by a lot of websites.
Basically, nobody in the media could ID an anti-ship missle if their lives depended on it and it's so pervasive it's one of those throw-up-your-hand things that are unfixable.
I haven't seen any conclusive evidence Iran has any Sunburns despite various claims that they do.
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hehe i know my sh.t
Agreed. Here's a Sunburn.
And the missile that Hezbollah hit the Israeli corvette with off Lebanon was incorrectly IDed as a "Silkworm" all over the place, even by some sites that should know better, when it actually was a C-802, which is a completely different design of missile from either the Silkworm or Sunburn.
Usually in these situations there's a tendency to give one well-known or catchy name to a BUNCH of different weapons systems (calling all shor-range ballistic missiles "SCUDS", calling all Japanese WWII single-engine fighters "Zeros", or calling all German artillery fire in WWII "88" fire) but Silkworm and Sunburn seem to be competing for the position of the name that the clueless are going to call every single anti-ship missile on the planet.
Does the Sunburn even have a ground-launched variant right now? I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
That's what I thought. Sunburn is air launched.
They sure got enough coverage with camera angles for the test! It would be interesting to know how far away the target ship was.
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