Print

Mail

wiki links

Iran may be `bluffing' about new missile

An Israeli missile expert said on Friday that the missiles shown on Iranian television reported to be capable of evading radar did not match the description, which he said sounded like Russian Iskander-E missiles.

Iranian state television said the country's armed forces successfully test fired a domestically produced missile which can evade radar, a development that analysts said could be worrying for Western forces in the Gulf.

"The description does not match the picture," Uzi Rubin, an Israeli missile expert, said from Tel Aviv. "They could be bluffing."

Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards air force, told Iranian state television that the guards had successfully tested "a new generation of missiles."

He said the Iranian-produced missiles can evade radar, anti-missile missiles, can carry multiple warheads and that the "technology is completely new."

Rubin, a former director of the Arrow missile defense program, said if it were true that Iran had such rockets, there was no way it could have produced them without outside help.

"I definitely don't believe that the Iranians could cook up such a sophisticated missile indigenously," Rubin said.
This story has been viewed 2350 times.