Thursday, August 20, 2020

Iran Unveils Two New Surface-To-Surface Missiles Amid U.S. Tensions

A new cruise missile unveiled by Iran and called martyr Abu Mahdi is seen in an unknown location in Iran on August 20

Daily Mail: Iran tests new surface-to-surface missile with a 900-mile range called Martyr Qassem Soleimani after the Quds Force leader killed in a US airstrike

* Iran displayed a new surface-to-surface missile with a range of 870 miles
* It also showed a new cruise missile, ignoring demands to halt its programme
* Pictures of the new missiles were revealed on state TV on Thursday

Iran displayed a surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Thursday with a range of 870 miles and a new cruise missile, ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme.

'The surface-to-surface missile, called martyr Qassem Soleimani, has a range of 1,400 km and the cruise missile, called martyr Abu Mahdi, has a range of over 1,000 km,' Defence Minister Amir Hatami said in a televised speech.

Pictures of the missiles were shown on state TV, which it said was 'the newest Iranian cruise missile that will further strengthen Iran's deterrence power'.

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More News On Iran Unveiling Two New Surface-To-Surface Missiles Amid U.S. Tensions

Iran unveils ‘Haj Qassem’ and ‘Abu Mahdi’ missiles -- Middle East Monitor
Iran unveils missiles with increased range -- AFP
Iran’s state TV says country unveiled 2 missiles amid renewed U.S. tensions -- Global News/AP
Iran unveils new missiles as tensions between Washington and Tehran mount over arms embargo -- CNBC
Iran Unveils Two New Missiles Amid U.S. Tensions -- RFE
Iran unveils two new missiles named after military commanders Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi -- ABC News Online
Iran shows off new ballistic, cruise missiles as US tensions rise -- Al Jazeera
Sign of things to come? Iran shows off missiles named after Quds Force chief Soleimani & his Iraqi ally killed by US strike -- RT

6 comments:

Anonymous said...


Some countries churn these things out like hot dogs at a picnic. I used to be impressed when an announcement was made by some smaller country of their having designed one of these things but I'm beginning to view them as a modern equivalent of the plastic model ships and other weaponry we put together back when I was a kid.

Anonymous said...

A rather unfortunate name.

fazman said...

And they want to lift the embargo and give them even more for them to reverse engineer.

Anonymous said...

A. That missile looks like a bad idea from the 80s.. like what the fck... it's 2020, Iran! Stop embarrassing yourself with these designs. Just stop. A high school grad would come up with something far far better..

B. branding. Sure sure, I get it.. that general... great...BUT.. the exhaust part at the right end of the rocket remind me of the blades deployed by the missile that shredded your general. Now it could be just me but when I look at your rocket it reminds me of how your general was shredded. Maybe that was intended.. but I don't think so as intent should be directional and not omni or multi directional where it could be misunderstood and just makes me think of your general dying...I don't think your troops would bed motivated by that imagery.. certainly not when they know that end is nor realistic for them if you keep building bad rockets like that

C. Why would you showcase it? No one buys your weapons because they're shit. You'd have better chances of selling them without putting a "made in Iran" sticker on it. You might find more and happier customers if you told them it's an extravagant dildo or something ... a camel dildo maybe.. you'll come up with something, I'm sure. Also in case you are showcasing them to impress other people internally or externally with it, don't. It's not working..

D. Stop putting the heads of leaders near the weapon, especially the exhaust. It's embarrassing all around.

E. if you want to wow an international audience have some English written there. No one is going through the effort to pull up Google translate either because

F. You always say the same stuff. Be a bit more surprising. Throw in a bowl here and there and stop bringing God in. If God was on your side we would have found out long ago, unless he (or she, but in this case we can be sure it's a he because otherwise God would talk a lot more and make us go visit her parents or look at baby pics more often) had a great sense of humor.

So yeah, in short. Love your enthusiasm for pushing out rockets and I still dig your whole martyr sing sang, but you gotta spice it up a little. This is like what, episode 523 of this 'Great Iran vs evil US' show and it's hard to watch. The plot is repetitive(spoiler, you loose) and the characters are too flat. Bring some back story in, have a twist ffs.. maybe the rocket is self aware and I don't know doesn't like its pronouns. Figure it out already, your ratings suck!

;)

Anonymous said...

Haha ouch

fazman said...

Yes as 1 million Americans will die