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According to Iranian media, Iran will in the near future demonstrate a homegrown hypersonic ballistic missile with a high reentry velocity (about Mach 12-13) and can fly inside and outside the Earth's atmosphere, flying at least five times the speed of sound, making it almost impossible to intercept.
This is very interesting, even Iran can claim to be able to build hypersonic missiles, a superpower, the world level does not know how to feel.
Today, we will not talk about how much setbacks the United States has suffered in hypersonic missiles, let's first explain why Iran, a country in the land of four wars and blocked for many years, can produce its own hypersonic ballistic missiles.
In fact, although Iran is an Islamic country, its military industry and closely related science and engineering are not weak, compared with Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other countries that are also Islamic countries, Iran's degree of independent industrialization is higher, which is of course not how much Iran itself struggles, are forced out. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has been sanctioned by the United States, decoupled from the international market, in order to overcome the arms embargo, gradually developed its own military industry, has built the most complete industrial system in the Middle East, can produce some less advanced weapons and equipment.
And Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, their manufacturing industry is still dominated by global trade, mainly dominated by private enterprises, and mainly involving oil, natural gas, chemicals, mining, and other fields, in the field of military science and technology related to national security, Saudi Arabia has chosen the simplest way, it is better to buy than to buy, choose to throw money to the United States, pay protection fees while even in exchange for weapons, really bloody, after all, for a long time, for a country like Saudi Arabia, Problems that can be solved with money are not problems.
And Iran naturally does not have such external conditions, self-reliance, independent research and development is the only option.
As early as the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran, Iran has a group of science and engineering colleges such as Sharif University of Technology, Amir Kabir University of Technology, Iran University of Science and Technology, after the Islamic Revolution, the teaching of these colleges has not been greatly affected, Iran still maintains some ways to train science and engineering talents, so compared to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other Islamic countries, Iran still has some science and engineering talents.
As early as 2018, Iran claimed to have extended the life of the Immortal Bird missile through independent research and development, imitation, etc., and claimed to have successfully domestically produced the Immortal Bird missile, and named it "Fakour-90", although the "Immortal Bird" missile is already an air-to-air missile at the level of the 70s of the last century, but if it can be truly independently produced, In the Middle East, it can also be regarded as a "regional power" with independent military industrial capabilities, which is much stronger than the surrounding Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Iran's military industry is gradually developed in the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, in order to overcome the sanctions and blockade of Western countries, Iran independently developed a series of weapons and equipment, forming a relatively complete military scientific research and production system.
At present, Iran's military industry covers light weapons, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, missiles, drones, fighter jets, submarines and other fields, of which missiles and drones are the most prominent.
Especially the missiles and drones, these two weapons are also considered to be the few choices when backward countries face a much stronger enemy, the missile itself is the earliest "drone" of human existence, and the pull on the battlefield of Russia and Ukraine, but also make this small UAV shine, from major countries to regional military powers, small UAVs as a weapon of asymmetric warfare are valued.
Iran currently possesses a variety of medium- and long-range ballistic and cruise missiles capable of covering most countries in the Middle East and posing a threat to U.S. military bases in the region.
And Iran's missile technology is not achieved overnight, but also after a long period of development and iteration, take the hypersonic missile declared this time, in fact, as early as March this year, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces talked about Iran's own development of anti-ship ballistic missiles, Iran claims that its own development of this anti-ship ballistic missile, "range up to 1500 kilometers, terminal speed of more than 8 times the speed of sound", and has entered the mass production stage, In 2008, Iran was developing an anti-ship missile with a GADR missile, which is a modified version of the Meteor 3 missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers. According to the current public information, this missile has not been officially developed and equipped with troops, but its development process still allows Iran to obtain the technical basis for the development of anti-ship ballistic missiles, which have a successive inheritance relationship in materials and control.
Iran's drone technology is also worth mentioning, the current UAV is a weapon of asymmetric warfare, and Iran in the field of UAV is developed under the influence of Israel, currently has a variety of reconnaissance, attack and stealth UAV, can perform reconnaissance surveillance, suicide attacks, electronic warfare and other tasks, and in Syria, Yemen and other regions of the actual combat test.
Even before it was reported that part of Iran's order to buy Russian Su-35 fighters was replaced with self-produced UAVs,
Since the 80s, Iran has been committed to the development of drones, independent research and development of a number of UAVs for different purposes, although the overall technical level is still relatively low, but has a fairly complex and perfect model lineage, Iran has also exported or assisted the UAV to Syria, Lebanon Allah Party, Yemen Houthi and other countries and organizations
。 And it must be known that the biggest loss of the US military in the field of UAVs is a newly commissioned RQ-170 "Sentinel" stealth drone captured by Iran through electronic warfare means, Iran's successful interference with RQ-170 data transmission and successfully landed this drone on its own territory, Iran obtained an almost intact RQ-170 UAV.
Iran's military industry not only meets domestic demand, but also exports, but also Syria, Yemen, Lebanon in the Middle East, Venezuela and other countries in South America, have more or less purchased the same weapons and equipment, has become the cost-effective choice of these countries, in general, the quality and technology of Iran's weapons is weaker than other countries in the West or region, affected by sanctions and economic difficulties, Iran mainly relies on its own research and development and imitation, and currently only solves the problem of whether there is, It should be quite a long way from being easy to use.