Iran claims to have new missile defense system
In more great news, Iran claims to have a new missile defense system to protect its nuclear weapons program against attack. The missile is called the Sayyad-2.Missile supportLet's go to the videotape.
In static position, the Sayyad-2 is mounted to a launcher station as the Russian made SA-2 missile. The basic design qualifies as semi-mobile, requiring several hours to set up or redeploy a battery. Each missile is carried by a semi-trailer towed by a Mercedes-Benz 2624 6x6 truck, and needs to be loaded onto a fixed launcher before firing. The loading usually takes about 5 minutes but this really depends on the training and experience of missile operators.
Missile
The Sayyad-2 is a two stage guided missile, with a large solid propellant booster stage fitted with four very large delta fins.The warhead of the Sayyad-2 weighs 200 kg and is a HE internally grooved fragmentation type with proximity, contact and command-type fuzing available. The Sayad 2 fligt at 3,600 km/h and has a range of 80 - 100 km and includes ECCM (Electronic Counter-Counter Measures) equipment.
Combat use
The Sayyad-2 missile, considering it's medium range can be apllied for targets, rather in low or high altitude. also it has capability for protecting the economic, political and social centers. Sayyad-2 is capable of destroying targets with low Radar Cross Section (RCS) at low and medium altitudes. The main mission of this missile, can be defined for destruction of bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.
Thanks again to the Germans for providing the trucks. I guess one holocaust wasn't enough for them.
Labels: anti-missile systems, German-Iranian trade, Iranian nuclear threat
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:04 PM
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