Iran producing new missile boats

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They just announced a new drone capable of carrying two cruise missiles also.

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There were planes shooting the buzz bombs down in WWII. I don't think taking this out will be a problem. It's like the SCUD's were back in '91. Are they more for intimidation or for sending NBC warheads?
 
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MG1968 said:
why would you need a drone to carry cruise missiles?
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If Israel is the primary target they may need it for range.

That said, the UAV looks like a piece of junk and would probably get shot down before it could launch the cruise missile anyway. Just looking at the picture, it doesn't have a high speed profile and it's radar cross section is probably stupid big. The surviveability of this thing is most likely garbage. Also, I very seriously doubt it is capable of carrying a warhead that is able to destroy a 3,000 ton target.

They would have been better served using resources to perfect ballistic missile technology then waste it on this propaganda toy.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
There were planes shooting the buzz bombs down in WWII. I don't think taking this out will be a problem. It's like the SCUD's were back in '91. Are they more for intimidation or for sending NBC warheads?
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It's not like our patriot missiles had a good kill percentage when it came to SCUDs, though...

....thankfully that technology has improved with later Patriot generations.
 
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TennTradition said:
It's not like our patriot missiles had a good kill percentage when it came to SCUDs, though...

....thankfully that technology has improved with later Patriot generations.
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They really did improve the hardware with the latest PAC3 upgrades.
 
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BearCat204 said:
They really did improve the hardware with the latest PAC3 upgrades.
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I was very surprised when I learned how low the intercept frequency was for Patriots during the gulf war. The SCUDs and their crappy design ended up being a great countermeasure to the not-so-agile Patriots of that era. Very good to see those improvements...
 
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they may not have been accurate, but they were damn sure loud. I was on guard duty one night and a Patriot battery that was maybe a 1/2 mile from my location lit off after a SCUD. They did their job, and pieces of SCUD rained down on the work compound my unit was stationed in.
 
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MG1968 said:
they may not have been accurate, but they were damn sure loud. I was on guard duty one night and a Patriot battery that was maybe a 1/2 mile from my location lit off after a SCUD. They did their job, and pieces of SCUD rained down on the work compound my unit was stationed in.
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Some definitely hit their target..one problem with counting successful kills is figuring out whether it hit the missile or the warhead, etc. But, I think the official kill % was eventually downgraded to being less than 10%.

Original claims were "41 of 42, 42 SCUDS engaged, 41 intercepted." But, when the it came out that the definition of intercepted meant "a SCUD and a Patriot pass each other in the sky" within a certain distance, those numbers didn't mean much. They ultimately brought those numbers way down to just a few actual kills.

Often the explosions that were seen were just the Patriots exploding around the SCUDs. Also, and it sounds like this was your case, the Patriots would sometimes hit the missile (rather than the warhead). But, in Saudi Arabia, this was generally enough to knock the warhead into an area you didn't care about (unlike Israel, where this strategy wasn't effective because of the denser population).

I'm glad your experience was a hit!
 
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