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Do you have any source?Iran is building 3 new missiles.
give us more info about them.Iran is building 3 new missiles.
For the first time, the type of anti ship missiles which Hezbollah used back in 2006 discussed.
Though indirectly and through calling them as Israeli findings:
first one was Korean made Silkworm (range extended by Iran to 120km) and the second one was Kowsar.
Rasam documentary episode 5:
قسمت ۵ - رسام - 04 اردیبهشت 1398
Do you have any source?
give us more info about them.
my prediction:
first missile: is from Fateh family with around 1250 km range.(Solid)
second missile: is from Khoramshar family with more length to extend its range.(liquid)
third missile: new family of missiles with unknown range and fuel
GBH looks like a sidewinder rather than crotale:A cost effectiveness approach by the Artesh SSJ.
Heydar has the goal to create a large calibre fire and forget missile for long ranges. Seeker is from Sadid missiles and the larger calibre enables a penetration power that should be effective against any tank, approaching at 45 degrees and above. Generally the heavy warhead is also effective against soft ground targets. What was shown is a crude mock up.
Ghamar e bani hashem is apparently a modification of the Shahab Sagheb/Crotale ground attack mod. Now it is optimized for its air to ground role instead of ground to air.
Diameter is limited to make it effective against modern tanks but it's range performance of 10km makes it effective to strike point targets.
Likely that old Crotale missiles will be used for it instead of entirely new missiles. Seeker is again from IRGCs Sadid series to increase cost-effectiveness. It is a kind of special purpose weapon for stand-off attacks of high value targets. That all has already been done by the IRGC which used old Sidewinders for this role, giving it a second life.
Dehlaviye/Kornet is the logical and most cost-effective missile here. The existing arsenal is large and the guidance system easy for Iran and already proven. It will replace the TOW while increasing range to 6km from hardly 4km.
The laser beam riding guidance is cheap and there is no AT-6 --- AT-16 series competing with it like in Russia.
So like the TOW ground ATGM and helicopters use a common missile from a common arsenal. Since it is not fire and forget, it would be used against the bulk of targets, instead of the heavier more expensive Heydar. Two Heydars and 8 Dehalviye would be the heavy load for future Cobras.
So here is the conclusion:
Dehlaviye as the better TOW, the lower end of guided missiles: 6km non-fire-and-forget
Heydar as high-end heavy anti armour missile: 8km and fire and forget.
GBH as special purpose stand-off missile for higher value soft ground targets and slow air targets: 10km and fire and forget.
What is missing is a short range laser guided rocket for low-end unarmoured targets. But this might not be cost-effective at this point in time.
A cost effectiveness approach by the Artesh SSJ.
Heydar has the goal to create a large calibre fire and forget missile for long ranges. Seeker is from Sadid missiles and the larger calibre enables a penetration power that should be effective against any tank, approaching at 45 degrees and above. Generally the heavy warhead is also effective against soft ground targets. What was shown is a crude mock up.
Ghamar e bani hashem is apparently a modification of the Shahab Sagheb/Crotale ground attack mod. Now it is optimized for its air to ground role instead of ground to air.
Diameter is limited to make it effective against modern tanks but it's range performance of 10km makes it effective to strike point targets.
Likely that old Crotale missiles will be used for it instead of entirely new missiles. Seeker is again from IRGCs Sadid series to increase cost-effectiveness. It is a kind of special purpose weapon for stand-off attacks of high value targets. That all has already been done by the IRGC which used old Sidewinders for this role, giving it a second life.
Dehlaviye/Kornet is the logical and most cost-effective missile here. The existing arsenal is large and the guidance system easy for Iran and already proven. It will replace the TOW while increasing range to 6km from hardly 4km.
The laser beam riding guidance is cheap and there is no AT-6 --- AT-16 series competing with it like in Russia.
So like the TOW ground ATGM and helicopters use a common missile from a common arsenal. Since it is not fire and forget, it would be used against the bulk of targets, instead of the heavier more expensive Heydar. Two Heydars and 8 Dehalviye would be the heavy load for future Cobras.
So here is the conclusion:
Dehlaviye as the better TOW, the lower end of guided missiles: 6km non-fire-and-forget
Heydar as high-end heavy anti armour missile: 8km and fire and forget.
GBH as special purpose stand-off missile for higher value soft ground targets and slow air targets: 10km and fire and forget.
What is missing is a short range laser guided rocket for low-end unarmoured targets. But this might not be cost-effective at this point in time.
Got to say I'm a bit more skeptical!
The Haydar doesn't have any visible moving surfaces that I can see for guidance and with that flat nose they'll either need a good size control surfaces for the guidance control or a TVC (which wouldn't make much sense due to cost & added weight) regardless neither of which the missile currently has. (At least not one that I could see to have a PGM capability....)
@Mithridates
I think in the first step they equipped the Crotale missile with a seeker for A-G capability and now they have modified the control surfaces for improved A-G role performance. The Sidewinder is thinner.
I suspect that the old batch FM-80 from China are now deemed too low quality for use as short range SAM. High-G maneuver would put them at risk of destruction.
Hence they were selected as long range missiles for A-G role, instead of scrapping. A perfect low cost SSJ project and same as IRGC Sidewinders-to-AGM project.
Sure, the Heydar mock-up looks very early in development. But there is a credible need for a high penetration power Maverick-like tandem HEAT ATGM for use against things like Abrams.
8km is sufficient, optics and detection systems can't go much beyond that on the Cobras.
The GBH missile at 10km range is for a similar scenario as performed by Apaches against Iraq at the start of the Gulf war: Raiding high value assets behind enemy lines and take them out from long distance.
Iran is lucky that its optics are now capable to support such long range missiles at day and night, a key enabler.
Now the non-TOW Corbas must be upgraded first with the Kornet, GBH and later Heydar if ready.
I was thinking...if Heydar has a fire and forget seeker then can it be totally independent of the helo that is carrying it...if the answer is yes then that can practically make any type of helicopter that Iran has and can carry it ( simple hard point and launcher rail) into a gunship..all the helicopter pilot has to do is fly toward the target and with a simple optical device/display Id the target (8 km away) and wait for Heydar to search and lock on the target and then fire (call it Heydar conversion kit).......just a brain fart..lolHellfire missile in size VS Heydar missile in size.
I was thinking...if Heydar has a fire and forget seeker then can it be totally independent of the helo that is carrying it...if the answer is yes then that can practically make any type of helicopter that Iran has and can carry it ( simple hard point and launcher rail) into a gunship..all the helicopter pilot has to do is fly toward the target and with a simple optical device/display Id the target (8 km away) and wait for Heydar to search and lock on the target and then fire (call it Heydar conversion kit).......just a brain fart..lol