Press TV – May 6, 2023
Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Rear Admiral Shahram Irani says the force has furnished its destroyers with domestically designed and manufactured ‘Abu Mahdi’ cruise missiles, which feature state-of-the-art technologies suitable for electronic warfare.
The missile has been named after the former deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units who was assassinated along with top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike ordered by former President Donald Trump near the Baghdad International Airport in early January 2020.
Abu Mahdi naval cruise missile has reportedly been developed by military experts at Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO), a subordinate of the Iranian Defense Ministry and a leading high-tech complex headquartered in Tehran. It is said to have a range of over one thousand kilometers, and can destroy any designated target. The missile is also capable to be launched by diverse types of sea, land and air platforms towards targets.
Rapid response, reliance on an effective target selection algorithm and evasion of the enemy’s missile defense systems are among the most significant features of Abu Mahdi cruise missile.
Iranian military experts and engineers have in recent years made remarkable breakthroughs in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient.
Iranian officials have repeatedly underscored that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, including its missile power, which are entirely meant for defense, and that Iran’s defense capabilities will be never subject to negotiations.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has repeatedly called for efforts to maintain and boost Iran’s defense capabilities.
On the opposite side of Asia a US F-16 came down in South Korea just 64 Km from the North Korean border. The US said it was “on a routine training flight” but there’s nothing routine about training 6,000 miles across the world’s largest ocean in a country you made war against 73 years ago, where one half of the divided country still considers you a serious threat to its existence.
With the US navy sending many vessels to Iranian waters in the west, and sending lots of aircraft far to the east in South Korea close to China, and with a war raging in Russia’s underbelly, it’s just about all in place to try and launch a surprise attack on Russia and China. Both must be alert because the US will probe and agitate, and if it feels there’s a chance of a surprise attack it may go for it. The neo-cons are losing everything and everybody knows they’re to blame. That’s a big loss of face to hide somehow.
Lots of Iranian bs lately,,, wonder why. The Intel agencies must have lowered the education requirement again.
@ OUT TO PLIET
you can be sure any surprise attack to russias + chinas
underbelly both will retaliate atomar !