Iran Increases Precision Capability of Persian Gulf Ballistic Missile

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian experts at the IRGC Aerospace research center have increased the precision capability of the 'Persian Gulf' supersonic ballistic missile to 8.5 meters.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the late commander and head of the IRGC missile research center, Martyr Major General Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam, played a major role in the designing and production of the Persian Gulf missile.

"When in its second test the Persian Gulf missile hit a moving vessel with 30m precision, we felt to have made a great success," Hajizadeh said.

"When we explained the achievement to the Supreme Leader, His Excellency voiced pleasure in the increased precision of the missile, but demanded us to increase its precision capability to less than 10-15 meters," he added.

"Less than 6 months later, our experts improved the precision capability of this missile to less than 8.5m," Gen. Hajizadeh continued.

"And when the Persian Gulf missile came into operation in the IRGC Navy, the countdown started for the trans-regional countries to end the mission of their warships," the IRGC Aerospace commander stressed.

The supersonic projectile, which carries a 650-kilogram payload, is smart and immune to interception, and features high-precision systems.

The Persian Gulf supersonic ballistic missile is the most advanced and most important missile of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy.

The distinctive feature of the missile lies in its supersonic speed and trajectory. While other missiles mostly traverse at subsonic speeds and in cruise style, the Persian Gulf moves vertically after launch, traverses at supersonic speeds, finds the target through a smart program, locks on the target and hit it.

The range of the solid-fuel missile is 300km and it can be fired from triple launchers.

the missile could successfully hit a mobile target one-tenth of an aircraft carrier in its early tests.

In early 2011, Iran started the mass-production of the Persian Gulf anti-ship missile which is designed to destroy targets and hostile forces at sea.

In April 2012, Hajizadeh noted the production of the Persian Gulf ballistic missiles, and said, "The research and testing phase of the Persian Gulf missile ended last year, and it is now being mass produced by the Defense Ministry."

Also in the same month, IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi underlined Iran's high defensive capabilities and power, and said the newly developed 'Khalij-e Fars (Persian Gulf)' missile would make the enemies change their equations and calculations due to its unusual and unique features.

"The Khalij-e Fars missile has been developed somehow different from the usual trend and can change the equations on which the enemy most relies," Fadavi said at the time.

Referring to Iran's missile power, he said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is now in possession of home-made missiles with the range of over 200km which can be mounted on Iranian high-speed boats.

In July 2012, Iran's Persian Gulf missiles displayed their 100 percent precision capability after hitting and destroying the specified targets in the last phase of the Payambar-e Azam 7 (The Great Prophet 7) drills.

"The Persian Gulf missile precisely hit and destroyed the target which was several times smaller than the marine targets which can pose a threat," Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said at the end of the last phase of the wargames on July 4, 2012.

Iran Increases Precision Capability of Persian Gulf Ballistic Missile

 

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Navy to Equip Destroyers with Next-Gen Radar | Defense Tech

The U.S. Navy plans to outfit destroyers with a next-generation radar that is far more powerful in detecting and locating potential threats than the system on ships today, service officials said.

The Air and Missile Defense Radar, or AMDR, now in development and slated for integration on ships by 2016, is part of a series of technological upgrades in what the Navy calls Flight III modernization increments for its fleet of DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers.

In radar terminology, a 15-decibel increase with AMDR translates into roughly 35 times more power and sensitivity compared to the existing AN/SPY-1D radar, according to Capt. Mark Vandroff, program manager for DDG-51 acquisition. While it is being engineered to conduct a range of multi-mission radar functions, the AMDR will primarily function as an anti-air and anti-ballistic missile detection system, he said.

“It is a major leap forward in radar technology,” Vandroff said in an interview with Military​.com.

The Navy has 62 destroyers, with four more being built and up to 10 new DDGs on order.

AMDR consists of S-band and X-band radars and a radar suite controller. Together, the technologies are able to scan, track and search the horizon and surrounding area for threats by sending an electromagnetic signal into the atmosphere, then analyzing the return signal of what it hits. The information can provide dimensions of a missile or other incoming threat by identifying its size, shape, location and trajectory.

Similar to its predecessor, the Aegis AN/SPY-1D radar, the AMDR includes a phased-array radar, Navy officials said. The S-band radar is engineered for long-range detection, whereas the X-band radar performs the over-the-horizon search capability, according to the service. “AMDR is really optimized for the anti-air and ballistic missile defense regimes but it is capable in the anti-surface and counter-battery,” Vandroff said.

Much like today’s AN/SPY-1D radar, the AMDR will be able to scan the surface as well, assisting with the fire-control technology needed to identify where an incoming threat can be intercepted, he said.

The AMDR radar is performing very well in its current technology development phase. However, the Navy is immersed in a series of technological adjustments, known as engineering change proposals, needed for the DDG-51s to accommodate the new radar, Vandroff said.

“In order for the ship to accommodate the AMDR radar, I would need more power and more cooling,” he said.

In particular, the changes include upgrading the existing DDG 51’s 200-ton air conditioning plant to a 300-ton plant, Vandroff said. A ton of cooling is a standard unit of cooling indicating how much heat exchange is required to lower temperatures by one degree over a certain period of time, he said.

A 300-ton plant is undergoing qualification testing to ensure it’s ready for integration in a military and marine environment, Vandroff said. The testing designed to evaluate the equipment’s ability to survive a shock event, vibrations of being on a ship for years and electromagnetic interference from other rotating equipment, he said.

While Vandroff said he was confident in the development of the 300-ton AC plant, the current 200-ton AC plant has shown it can accept additional cooling capacity as well.

The engineering change will also boost the electrical capacity of the ship’s generator from three megawatts to four megawatts to fully support the power demands of the AMDR radar, he said.

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