IRAN MILITARY POWER WITH WORLD CLASS MISSILE DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

http://www.rense.com/general59/theSunburniransawesome.htm -------------------------------------- The Sunburn - Iran's Awesome Nuclear Anti-Ship Missile
The Weapon That Could Defeat The US In The Persian Gulf -------------------

Many years ago, Soviet planners gave up trying to match the US Navy ship for ship, gun for gun, and dollar for dollar. The Soviets simply could not compete with the high levels of US spending required to build up and maintain a huge naval armada. They shrewdly adopted an alternative approach based on strategic defense. They searched for weaknesses, and sought relatively inexpensive ways to exploit those weaknesses. The Soviets succeeded: by developing several supersonic anti-ship missiles, one of which, the SS-N-22 Sunburn, has been called "the most lethal missile in the world today."

After the collapse of the Soviet Union the old military establishment fell upon hard times. But in the late1990s Moscow awakened to the under-utilized potential of its missile technology to generate desperately needed foreign exchange. A decision was made to resuscitate selected programs, and, very soon, Russian missile technology became a hot export commodity. Today, Russian missiles are a growth industry generating much-needed cash for Russia, with many billions in combined sales to India, China, Viet Nam, Cuba, and also Iran. In the near future this dissemination of advanced technology is likely to present serious challenges to the US. Some have even warned that the US Navy's largest ships, the massive carriers, have now become floating death traps, and should for this reason be mothballed.

The Sunburn missile has never seen use in combat, to my knowledge, which probably explains why its fearsome capabilities are not more widely recognized. Other cruise missiles have been used, of course, on several occasions, and with devastating results. During the Falklands War, French-made Exocet missiles, fired from Argentine fighters, sunk the HMS Sheffield and another ship. And, in 1987, during the Iran-Iraq war, the USS Stark was nearly cut in half by a pair of Exocets while on patrol in the Persian Gulf. On that occasion US Aegis radar picked up the incoming Iraqi fighter (a French-made Mirage), and tracked its approach to within 50 miles. The radar also "saw" the Iraqi plane turn about and return to its base. But radar never detected the pilot launch his weapons. The sea-skimming Exocets came smoking in under radar and were only sighted by human eyes moments before they ripped into the Stark, crippling the ship and killing 37 US sailors.

The 1987 surprise attack on the Stark exemplifies the dangers posed by anti-ship cruise missiles. And the dangers are much more serious in the case of the Sunburn, whose specs leave the sub-sonic Exocet in the dust. Not only is the Sunburn much larger and faster, it has far greater range and a superior guidance system. Those who have witnessed its performance trials invariably come away stunned. According to one report, when the Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani visited Moscow in October 2001 he requested a test firing of the Sunburn, which the Russians were only too happy to arrange. So impressed was Ali Shamkhani that he placed an order for an undisclosed number of the missiles.

The Sunburn can deliver a 200-kiloton nuclear payload, or: a 750-pound conventional warhead, within a range of 100 miles, more than twice the range of the Exocet. The Sunburn combines a Mach 2.1 speed (two times the speed of sound) with a flight pattern that hugs the deck and includes "violent end maneuvers" to elude enemy defenses. The missile was specifically designed to defeat the US Aegis radar defense system. Should a US Navy Phalanx point defense somehow manage to detect an incoming Sunburn missile, the system has only seconds to calculate a fire solution not enough time to take out the intruding missile. The US Phalanx defense employs a six-barreled gun that fires 3,000 depleted-uranium rounds a minute, but the gun must have precise coordinates to destroy an intruder "just in time."

The US Navy has never faced anything in combat as formidable as the Sunburn missile. But this will surely change if the US and Israel decide to wage a so-called preventive war against Iran to destroy its nuclear infrastructure. Storm clouds have been darkening over the Gulf for many months. In recent years Israel upgraded its air force with a new fleet of long-range F-15 fighter-bombers, and even more recently took delivery of 5,000 bunker-buster bombs from the US weapons that many observers think are intended for use against Iran.

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[MrDODGERFAN26]

Is everything in Iran shot in VHS quality? THEY should invest in Hd cameras instead of cheap 1970's weapons lol.

[EvolutionDerLebwesen]

4:05 Windows 98.

Hahahahahahahahaha !

[glory7in7silence]

FUCK AMERICA...GO IRAN!!!!!

[TheSlm56]

@nato4079 just f14's

[satyvirjasra]

YAy Iran... go and make a nuclear weapon... the Russia, China and India is with u..... =D America has no right to bully for no reason.......Iran has neva attacked a country in over a century!!!

[sahaldinho]

every weapon won't do any good but hurt mothers fathers brothers sisters and friends but people keep on making more and more

[nato4079]

u know before america was irans enemy they gave them f 15s and f14s

[MrMilfhunter2003]

when did iran aquire aeroplanes and cars i though they still used square wheels to get around..oh and their technology is stone age to proper shit

[portnovi]

a cosa servono queste cose.....

[epyon02]

than leave

[omiblingbling]

@epyon02 A soldier has 2 small kids, and he doesnt even know why hes fighting. He dies, what does govt do to help? nothing, they say my condolences go to your family and thats it. hes gone...for what? for a benefit of USA....man im ashamed to be American

[omiblingbling]

@epyon02 i would serve for a true country, not a country who makes wars and doesnt give a shit about its soldiers...when u think about oil and money, u dont give a shit if half of your people die, because in the long run it helps the country....think about it