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| Iran Says Underwater Missile Test-Fired |
| 2006-04-02 |
| just in.. Yahoo, sorry, but the ratchet up a know for Iran means an interesing week ahead. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday it has successfully test fired a high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying warships and submarines. The Iranian-made missile has a speed of about 222 mph underwater, Gen. Ali Fadavi, deputy head of the Navy of the elite Revolutionary Guards, said. He called it the fastest underwater missile in the world — but it has the same speed as the Russian-made VA-111 Shkval, developed in 1995 and believed to be the world's fastest. It was not immediately known if the Iranian missile was based on the Shkval. "It has a very powerful warhead designed to hit big submarines. No warship can escape from this missile," Fadavi told state-run television. You may well get to test that claim much sooner than you think. |
| Posted by:Thinemp Whimble2412 |
| #2 Looks like this one is real, probably a Soviet supercavitating torpedo They claim they've created this stuff but most of it is Russian / Chinese equipment they bought and possibly copied. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-04-02 17:21 |
| #1 Iran is full of horseshit, in the last month they claim to have made more weapons systems advances than in the last 20 years put together. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-04-02 15:50 |