 "Iran unveils long-range anti-warship missile with 1,000km range")
According to state television on Saturday, Iran successfully tested a 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) anti-warship cruise missile that could strike US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
“This is a Ghadr-380 mile type L. It has over 1,000 kilometers range. It has anti-jamming capability,” stated Gen. Ali Reza Tangsiri, the naval chief of the Revolutionary Guard, in a report showcasing an underground missile installation on Iran’s southern coast.
The article didn’t go into detail about the missile’s warhead or the test time.
According to Tangsiri, the facility is “only one part of the missile systems of the Guard,” and the missiles can make “a hell for the enemy’s warships.”
The report said the new weapon was a “sophisticated missile,” without elaborating, which could be launched from the underground facility. The missile was launched from central Iran into the Sea of Oman, it said.
It said the missile can be made ready and launched by one member of personnel in less than five minutes.
Since 2011, Iran has occasionally announced the inauguration of underground missile facilities along with missile tests. It has boasted of underground facilities across the country as well as along the southern coast near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Impact Shorts
More ShortsIran claims to have missiles that can travel 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), placing much of the Middle East, including Israel, within range.
In 2024 and during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran launched hundreds of missiles at Israel in two separate barrages in April and October. Israel said it intercepted most of the missiles.
Following Iraq’s bloody 1980s eight-year war against Iran, when both countries fired missiles at cities, Iran developed its ballistic missile program as a deterrent, especially as a U.N. arms embargo prevents it from buying high-tech weapons systems. The underground tunnels help protect those weapons, including liquid-fueled missiles that can only be fueled for short periods of time.
The U.S. and its Western allies see Iran’s missile program as a threat, along with the country’s nuclear program.
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