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Kamangir | August 27, 2006 | Category Iran
I am not a military expert, but something is wrong here. During the current drill the army demonstrated new enhanced shore-to-sea (see) and sea-to-shore (see) missiles. See some pictures below.
Sea-to-Shore Missile.
Shore-to-Sea Missile.
All of a sudden, the two missiles look very similarly. Is it like a missile can be launched from different locations, sea or shore? Also, look at these picture, which are taken before the second missile’s launch.
I am wondering why a launch needs ten times more technicians than it needs soldiers.
Good at least there are fire fighters there.
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No, not all of the missiles are the same. The first two, one being fired from a ship and the next photo are c-802 or noor missiles. The third land-based one, which is much bigger, is an older generation of (chinese) cruise missiles named hy-2, otherwise known as the silkworm, which Iran used during the Iran-Iraq war. C-802 is supposed to be a generation ahead, and was fired upon an Israeli war-ship in the recent Lebanon conflict.
It is said that Iran now produces both of these missiles, it has produced hy-2 since 1990s. But the Hy-2 is not useful against any warship today with their sofisticated EW measures, it can just sink merchant and commercial ships. C-802 is supposed to be far superior, although it’s only combat experience is the recent attack against an (American built) Israeli Sa’ar 5 class warship (Hanit), which can be considered somewhat successful.
Thanks for the professional description. Still, I don’t get it. Are the two pictures showing one missile? I think you say they are different ones looking very similarly. Is this right?
1st pic: Noor (C-802)
2nd pic: Noor (C-802)
3rd pic: Silkworm (HY-2)
BTW, I like your blog. It’s written in a professional way.
Thanks! :)