(ISNA)
Iran announced that production of its blessed "Messenger" bombs would begin today.
Fars News reported:
Iran said that it has developed a new 900-kilogram (2,000-pound) smart bomb and that it will start industrial-scale production of the bomb today.
The guided bomb, named Qased (Messenger), can be deployed by Iran's F-4 and F-5 fighter jets and will be officially unveiled next week, Iranian defense ministry said.
The bomb, equipped with a smart guiding system, is produced by few countries due to the advanced technical know-how required for its production and Iran is the last in the chain of countries which have succeeded in developing the technology.
Qased has been successfully tested by such fighter jets as F4 and F5.
The Iranian defense ministry also said that several other production lines for manufacturing different military tools and arsenals would go operational next week on the occasion of the Week of Government.
Iran launched its own arms development program during its 1980-88 war with Iraq in response to a US-led arms embargo, and since 1992 the country has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and missiles.
Earlier this month, Iran said it had started industrial-scale production of its own fighter jet, known as Azarakhsh or Lightning. The Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said here today that his ministry would soon start industrial-scale production of the second generation of the same fighter jet called Saeqeh (Thunderbolt).
Iran last year test-fired an "ultra-horizon" missile, two powerful torpedoes and a Fajr-e Darya missile capable of avoiding radars and hitting several targets simultaneously using multiple warheads during extensive military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf.
(ISNA)
BG comments- "I'm all for killing the messenger" on this one.
Agreed.
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ReplyDeletei'm all for killing the "Messenger"..
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Being in the biz, I would suggest that it is a lot easier to announce that you have a missile that can evade radars and hit multiple targets than to get good results in tests.
ReplyDeleteThis has about as much credibility as Microsoft Windows 2010(c)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8670654442639536398&q=northrop+test+bomb&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
ReplyDeleteDon't these things require some sort of GPS system to acquire targets? Where is that information coming from ?
ReplyDeleteAnd then they are going to deliver this weapon with F4's and F5's? Phantom driver will be the worst job in the iranian classifieds.
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ReplyDeletehere ya go Don Meaker @ 1:20 PM
and here i go.. :D
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The F-15 and F22 both have standoff capability. They also have fire and forget capability. The Iranians might as well be flying F-4Us. Or P-38s
ReplyDeleteHmm, seems like they've dressed up a training version of Rockwell's first-gen GBU-15, the GBU-15(V)1/B:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-112.html
In order for this missile to work, it has to dropped from an aircraft. 5 minutes after hostilities started with the US, those aircraft would be smoking ruins on a tarmac. Good lucl with that Missile program, Haji.
ReplyDeleteCaptain Ned's comment about how this particular puppy looks like a, "dressed up a training version of Rockwell's first-gen GBU-15" seems rather on target if you'll pardon the pun: GBU-15
ReplyDeleteF-4 delivering a GBU-15
Something tells me though that an F-4 attempting to make a delivery against advanced radar will indeed make the "Phantom driver will be the worst job in the iranian classifieds" as A @ 2:28 p.m. noted...
My first thought on reading this was as Capt. Ned says.
ReplyDeleteAll of Iran's 'announcements' lately, have been of technical advances that turn out to be slightly modified older gen US equipment and the like. Or wormholes.
Next thing you know, they'll announce they are starting production of two types of anti-matter bomb, and provide us a black & white photo of Fat Man and Little Boy.
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ReplyDeleteIslamist cleric issues Iran warning
good greif, maybe we should let them have at it.. that'll take em back to the 11th century, or whichever one they're so hell bent on recreating.. gah!!
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