Author Topic: Iran Under-Water Missile. (Read 1249 times)

weaselsan · « **Reply #45 on:** April 05, 2006, 06:30:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
So Iran is not a real threat then

Iran is as much a threat to us militarily as Denmark. Iran's threat is to Israel. If they develope a nuclear capability and use it against Israel, they will touch off a nuclear holocaust in the middle east.

Hangtime · « **Reply #46 on:** April 05, 2006, 06:39:29 PM »

Don't mess with the Danes. Get 'em annoyed and they'll go all viking on yer ass. The gnashing of teeth and clashing of shields, rowboats in yer sauna's and everybody gets a capital one card...

..a fate worse than death.

Don't mess with the danes.

Angus · « **Reply #47 on:** April 05, 2006, 07:01:58 PM »

Hey Boroda:
Ekranoplan. The word I needed. TY.
Anyway I think they are nuts in Iran, and should be spending their bucks on something completely else.

Angus · « **Reply #48 on:** April 05, 2006, 07:17:55 PM »

Anyway...a part of the nut-shell:
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran successfully tested a "super-modern flying boat" on Tuesday and the land-to-sea Kowsar missile that military analysts say is designed to sink ships in the Gulf, state media reported.
The tests came in the middle of Gulf war games that started on Friday. Iranian state radio said the Kowsar could evade radar and that its guidance system could not be scrambled.

The Defense Ministry was not immediately able to give details of a "flying boat" that was shown on television.

The small propeller-driven aircraft floated on a trimaran hull until it took off and flew low over the surface of the water. State television said it could reach speeds of 100 knots.

"A super-modern flying boat was successfully tested in the 'Great Prophet' war game in Persian Gulf waters," state television said.

"Because of its hull's advanced design, no radar at sea or in the air can locate it. It can lift out of the water. It is wholly domestically built and can launch missiles with precise targeting while moving."

An aviation web site showed the vessel shared features with WIGE vehicles, known to Russians as ekranoplanes.

Earlier in the war games, Iran said it had tested a radar-evading rocket and the Hoot (whale) underwater missile which could outpace any enemy warship.

On Monday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard test-fired a torpedo it said was being mass-produced in Iran.

State television said another missile would be tested on Tuesday afternoon."

Flit · « **Reply #49 on:** April 05, 2006, 09:01:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Sounds like a plan to me. I love the smell of melting sand in the mornings.

Then there's the added benefit that once the sand turns to glass, it'll be easier to pump out the oil:D

Flit · « **Reply #50 on:** April 05, 2006, 09:05:21 PM »

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Originally posted by nirvana
Is 7,500 yards far enough away to get away from the nuclear blast if they so choose to go that route? Or is it just Dying in the name of Allah again?

I'd like to see the Iranians try to get Anything in their arsenal within 7500 meters of any American warship in the gulf.

Hangtime · « **Reply #51 on:** April 05, 2006, 09:13:57 PM »

They'll get a Darwin Award.

Posthumous, of course.

Boroda · « **Reply #52 on:** April 06, 2006, 08:54:41 AM »

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Originally posted by nirvana
Thanks for the explanation Estel, however, it's just another islamic suicide attack, no? If they continue to fight a jihad, that is to say if we fight Iran, they will die in the name of Allah as the hijackers during 9/11 did, the bombers in Spain, and the countless suicide attacks in the Middle East.

I wonder why you didn't mention terrorist attacks against Russia, including Buddenovsk maternity hospital in 1995, Moscow apartment bombings in 1999, Dubrovka theatre 2002 and Beslan.

JFYI, all this attacks were committed by people trained in NATO country, your ally: Turkey. Iran is completely on our side, unlike you and your allies.

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Originally posted by nirvana
For the record, I do not blame Russia for anything except things like the Cuban missile crisis, the Berlin wall, Korea obtaining MiG's, and other facts that can be proven. I love the Russians.

So, you blame Russia for preventing you guys from mass murders in the name of so-called "democracy", that's all.

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #53 on:** April 06, 2006, 09:01:06 AM »

Yeah surely west Berliners would have EATEN all the poor easterns alive!

Hangtime · « **Reply #54 on:** April 06, 2006, 09:17:11 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
I wonder why you didn't mention terrorist attacks against Russia, including Buddenovsk maternity hospital in 1995, Moscow apartment bombings in 1999, Dubrovka theatre 2002 and Beslan.

JFYI, all this attacks were committed by people trained in NATO country, your ally: Turkey. Iran is completely on our side, unlike you and your allies.

So, you blame Russia for preventing you guys from mass murders in the name of so-called "democracy", that's all.

Ever hear of a place called Grozny?

It's usually associated with two other words that have been used together in the west quite a bit... RUSSIAN ATROCITIES

By rough estimate, it would take about 1.5 million more 'innocent' dead russians to calm those Chehkens down.

Here's another clue for yah, my gleefuly happy to have a new cold war commie martyr buddie... Iran is not your 'Friend', either.

Boroda · « **Reply #55 on:** April 06, 2006, 10:48:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
Ever hear of a place called Grozny?

It's usually associated with two other words that have been used together in the west quite a bit... RUSSIAN ATROCITIES

Atrocities? At least there's nothing like Abu Graib. And it's our own land, with insurgents and terrorists who could blow up my house in 1999, who attacked neighbouring republics, practice slavery and turned kidnapping into national business.

Hang, I asked many times on this board, how do you guys suggest to take a fortified city? Walking in with flowers in AK barrels?

Federal forces gave 2 weeks for unarmed civilians to leave the city, and then they started an assault according to Army regulations. Or you think that we had to send soldiers into the city without artillery and air support, like on New Year 1995? Thanks, no.

I don't think that your army of Mi Lay "liberators" should teach Russians how to take enemy cities.

When your "glorious" marines bomb El Fallujah with ball-bearing cluster bombs - it's OK, when they start an assault without letting civilians leave - it's OK, it's for Sacred Democracy, isn't it?

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Originally posted by Hangtime
By rough estimate, it would take about 1.5 million more 'innocent' dead russians to calm those Chehkens down.

I don't understand what you meant by that, can you please repeat in other words? Maybe you mean that we should kill 1.5 million Chechens to compete with your achievements in Vietnam? Sorry to disappoint you, but the whole population on Chechnya in 1991 was 1.3 million, over 600,000 of non-Chechens had to run away when "freedom fighters" took power and started to rob, murder and rape according to their national traditions.

indy007 · « **Reply #56 on:** April 06, 2006, 11:36:01 AM »

***Newsflash***

United States & The USSR have done the exact same things, while both claiming the moral high ground.

History is written by the victors (and later re-written by liberal revisionists).

***************

To the original post, what an absolutely crap weapon. The latest Mk48 ADCAPs swimout, so by simply manuvering it away before going active, a snapshot down the launch bearing won't work. A nuclear warhead would have a reasonable chance of taking out the attacking submarine, but they don't even have those yet. Also, even if you wanted to make it a guided weapon... how would you? At 200kts, you won't even hear your own active sonar.

KgB · « **Reply #57 on:** April 06, 2006, 06:33:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
Atrocities? At least there's nothing like Abu Graib. And it's our own land, with insurgents and terrorists who could blow up my house in 1999, who attacked neighbouring republics, practice slavery and turned kidnapping into national business.

Let it go Boroda,Hang blindly hates us.....
He doesn't know about kidnapping Russian citizens that USED to live in Grozny.He doesn't know anything about people that received packages with body parts in it with a letter that said
"if you don't pay $ xxx you'll get your daughters head in the next package."
He doesn't even know that it has been going on for almost 200 years.

Of course he's never heard of
Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin (1799-1837) and his novel
Prisoner of the Caucasus written in 1820!!!
About Chechnya's kidnapping Russians.

He hates every Russian,unlike him i don't hate Americans,i hate people like him.
I have a lot of great Yankee friends:)
Nirvana,Colt,Reacher,Rhino,m36 the list is endless,and i will not downgrade to his level.

Bogie603rd · « **Reply #58 on:** April 06, 2006, 06:38:27 PM »

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Originally posted by gofaster
How is this missile fired? From a fixed underwater base or from a submarine? Or some other platform?

When I saw the footage of it, it was launched off of a small square platform. I didn't see all of it, but it had the looks of the rear of a "fishing" ship.

It was placed horizontally on the launching platform. And when fired, launched forwards off the ship, dropped underneath water. It went down about 10 feet, came right back up, and 1 foot underwater, headed off straight at increasing speeds.

But... overall, I saw the footage and to me for the few seconds I saw the missile, looked like a "sidewinder" missile with a broader hull. That's what leads me to believe that it can propably be "locked-on" to a target.