Have these Iranian missiles navigated first wave of attack on Zionist regime?

Pars Today- The Zionist regime, in accordance with the joint planning with the US and Washington's green light after repeated threats over striking Iran's nuclear facilities, attacked different goals in Iran with air-to-surface missiles on Friday early morning (June 13) which resulted in martyrdom of a number of senior commanders, scientists and ordinary people.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement after the attack on Iran, claimed that the operation had aimed at damaging nuclear and missile infrastructures of Iran.

In reaction to the threats of Tel Aviv, Iran has stressed that, any adventurism by the Zionist regime would face with a hard and decisive response. Regarding Iran's tremendous missile and drone capabilities coupled with the tactics and technics of asymmetric battle, which the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic have exercised for years, will deal very severe and crushing blows to Israel.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khamenei, in a message after the Israeli attack on Iran, stressed that the Zionist regime must wait for a hard punishment. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, also announced in a statement that Iran's crushing response will make the Zionist regime regret.

Iran is now at the highest military preparedness and its response will definitely astound Israel. Moreover, Iran's recent intelligence operation and exposure the bank of American and Israeli targets has given Tehran broad intelligence superiority so that the Islamic Republic is able to bewilder the enemies with fatal blows before any move by them.

Regarding the tiny area of the Zionist regime (Occupied Palestinian Territories), lacking any strategic depth and notable concentration of population, ports, public facilities, factories, production centers, barracks, air bases and nuclear facilities, this regime naturally offers a remarkable host of targets for Iran's Armed Forces. So, Iran can use various missiles with necessary ranges to hit the Occupied Palestine and is able to deal very harsh and destructive blows to Israel with suicide drones having a range of 2,000km. Here, we present you the features of some of the missiles in Iran's arsenal which can pulverize the Zionist regime.

Iran's Defense Minister, Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, announced on June 11 that the country's latest achievement was the successful testing of a missile with a 2-ton warhead. It seems to be Khorramshahr-4 (Kheibar) ballistic missile which was unveiled in early June.

This missile is the last advanced version of Khorramshahr family and among the precision-guided missiles with no need to guiding in the final phase.

 Khorramshahr-4 (Kheibar) is one of the long-range missiles with an operational range of nearly 2,000 kilometers. This missile is 13m long, 1.5m in diameter and weighs around 30 tons. The warhead of this missile weighs 1,800kg with a speed of nearly 8 Mach inside the atmosphere and 16 Mach outside it.

The warhead is approximately 4m which is among the largest and most effective warheads able to carry more than 1 ton of explosives. The engine of Khorramshar-4 missile is of the advanced type (Arvand) which uses hypergolic fuels (igniting spontaneously).

Experts of Iranian missile industries, in order to upgrade tactical capabilities, have placed the engine inside the fuel tank which has decreased the missile length to nearly 13m.

The capability to hit with high precision, being radar-evasive, ability to correct trajectory and ineffectiveness of electronic war systems on its functioning, are some of the features of Khorramshar-4 missile. Moreover, the high speed of warhead at the moment of hitting the goal makes the hostile defense systems unable to detect, intercept and destroy it.

Another feature of this missile is the middle guiding so that the guiding systems of the missile are turned off after entering the atmosphere to disable the enemy's electronic war.

 In comparison with the previous generations, this missile can secure precision-guiding at the middle phase (flying above atmosphere). It has been equipped with one of the most advanced liquid fuel engines to create tactical capabilities and has been designed in a way that the engine is placed inside the fuel tank to decrease its length to nearly 13m.

Former Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Airspace Force, Brigadier General, Martyr Amirali Hajizadeh, had said on the features of Khorramshahr-4, "After launching one Khorramshahr missile, it hits 80 goals in the target area. If we launch 100 of these missiles, they will turn into 8,000 rockets in the enemy's territory and hit 8,000 goals."

With a range of 1,450km, Kheibarshekan missile enjoys a tri-conic warhead structure to protect it during heavy maneuvers. Of course, the drag force is a little greater in this structure in order to give it maneuverability. In fact, the designers have preferred maneuverability to the increase of drag force with engineering reforming.

What is conspicuous in this missile are the relative bigger dimensions of the mobile winglets of warhead which enhance its maneuverability after entering the atmosphere and enable it to do more intricate and faster maneuvers in order to effectively pass through atmospheric anti-missile defense dam which is the main function of the defense systems such as the Israeli David's Sling and American Patriot. Another feature to note about Kheibarshekan missile is the way its warhead explodes. According to the footages released of the missile, the warhead of this missile is of the high-explosive type. According to Martyr General Hajizadeh, the substances used in the warhead of this missile have increased its explosion power several times more than TNT.

Fattah-1 missile has been produced by the experts of the Airspace Force of IRGC. This missile, having tactical capabilities, enjoys second-phase solid fuel mobile nozzle propellant which enables it to reach very high speeds and carry out various maneuvers inside and outside atmosphere in order to overcome different kinds of the air defense systems of enemy.

Another features of this missile are: 2-phase solid fuel, range of 1,400km, unpredictable maneuver inside and outside atmosphere, maximum speed of 25 Mach outside atmosphere and 13-15 Mach at striking, using alloy compounds absorbing defense radar waves and very low cross-section of warhead. Other outstanding features of Fattah-1 hypersonic missile are increasing striking precision, very high speed, extraordinary maneuverability, and the ability to hide and pass through radar systems.

Fattah-2 hypersonic missile enjoys the glide and cruise capabilities which is categorized among Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV). Only 4 countries, including Iran, possess the technology of this type of hypersonic weapons.

HGV projectiles, like Fattah-2, instead of getting high like ballistic projectiles, move towards the target at very low height with the ability to change the trajectory repeatedly, thus, the early alarm system of the enemy radars are confused to detect them and it is very likely to surprise the complex of the enemy missile defense.

For sure, the missile power of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not limited. The Islamic Republic has rather displayed a highly remarkable power in the field with testing a variety of missiles with different ranges and capabilities, such as "Emad" with 1,700km range, "Qadr H" with 1,650km range, "Qadr F" with 1,950km range, "Qiam" with 800km range, "Kheibarshekan" with 1,450km range, "Haj Qasem" with 1,400km range, "Sejjil" with 2,000km range, and "Paveh" cruise missile with 1,650km range.

The defense and deterrence power of the Islamic Republic of Iran is composed of several parameters one of the most basic of which is the missile capability so that Iran is among the top countries in the field. Furthermore, Iranian drones, with the ability to fly at high levels, long durability in the sky and ability to carry various ammunitions, play a significant role in upgrading the intelligence and operational capabilities.

These breakthroughs, alongside development of defense systems, state-of-the-art technologies of electronic war and floating systems, made Iran famous as a key player in the security and military equations in West Asia and created a high deterrence power for the country in the face of regional and trans-regional threats.

Moreover, the Islamic Republic has just displayed serious power in the security and intelligence domains. The unprecedented transfer of a huge amount of top secret documents of the Zionist regime in the nuclear, military, security … fields indicates a very high prowess of Iran's intelligence apparatus beside missile capability. Thus, Iran is undoubtedly the first intelligence power in the region.   

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