The Iranian military a days ago announced its development of a “hypersonic” missile that can travel at a speed of Mach-15 – that is, fifteen times the speed of sound, against which it claims there is no defense. And the missile can hit any target in Israel within 400 seconds, too soon for Israel to intercept it. And in the same week, Tehran announced the development of a “quantum processor” whose precise use was not made public, but it was described as a “breakthrough” by the Iranian admiral who held the amazing device in his hand. More on these exciting products of Iran’s weapons industry can be found here: “Iran announces HUGE technical breakthroughs. Usually fictional, but HUGE!,” Elder of Ziyon, June 9, 2023:
This is Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, the Coordinating Deputy of the Islamic Republic’s Army, holding a so-called ‘quantum processor’ that he claimed Iran developed, showing it off during a ceremony at the Imam Khomeini Maritime University in Noshahr.
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Iran International, which covered this story, reminds us that Iran claimed in 2020 to have developed a “breakthrough” super-device that could detect people infected with coronavirus from a football field away. IRGC Commander-in-chief Hossein Salami unveiled the device and claimed Iran would mass produce it.
That “breakthrough” device that could somehow detect from afar people infected with the Covid virus was announced by the IRGC commander — making it a very big deal — and then …silence. It was never mentioned again, for good reason – either because it could not work as claimed, or because it never existed in the first place, but was one more manifestation of the Iranian regime’s rich fantasy life.
Previously, Iran also announced they built a stealth fighter jet, the F-313, which couldn’t possibly fly. And also a home-built fighter aircraft that was a 1970s-era US-made F-5F Tiger with paint.
That stealth fighter jet was never shown in flight. And Western experts are unanimous that as described, it would not work. It was called the Quaher F-313, and photos of it had appeared before, in 2013, when the website War Is Boring pointed out that the jet was too small to carry its announced weapons payload or even fit a pilot. More on this nonexistent “stealth fighter jet” can be found here:
Business Insider showed the footage to a senior scientist working on stealth aircraft who asked to remain anonymous because of the classified nature of his work.
As far as radar signature goes, “some parts are laughable,” the scientist said. Specifically, he said the downturned wingtips reminded him of something out of “Star Trek” and the vertical or near vertical fins on the plane would light up a radar.
The scientist said he seriously doubted that Iran had the engineering processes and expertise in place to manufacture a stealth aircraft, the details of which need to be perfectly lined up to baffle radars. Iran has for years been under sanctions, prohibited from buying the kinds of components needed to build advanced stealth aircraft.
Writing for Vice’s Motherboard, journalist David Axe said the F-313 — which does not fly in the video — had its tire pressure stenciled on the outside of the plane and that it was way too low for a full-sized airplane weighed down with instruments and fuel.
The scientist says the tire pressure “takes away all doubt that it’s a fake.”
It was a fake, but the announcements about both the fighter jet and the stealth fighter jet in 2018 were intended to impress other nations, especially Israel, and, as well, the unhappy and restive Iranian people, who needed to be reassured: “see, we are on the cutting-edge of military technology, we can produce things that our arch-enemy Israel has been unable to manufacture. We are right up there with the U.S., China, and Russia.” And nothing more was heard about this home-grown “stealth fighter jet.” We still don’t know if any test flights were ever made. Some believe this “stealth fighter jet” was a “total fake” that, as a “stealth” plane, never existed.
Only videos of the “stealth fighter jet” on the ground have been shown. The plane has not been tested in flight. It is too small to carry the necessary payload, or even to fit a pilot inside. The tire pressure, stenciled on the outside of the plane, scientists have concluded, was much too low for a full-sized airplane weighed down with instruments and fuel. A Western scientist says that the tire pressure “takes away all doubt that it’s a fake.”
As for the home-grown fighter jet that Iran announced at the same time in 2018 as its “stealth” plane, it appears to analysts from the pictures that have been released, to be a copy of a US-made plane – the F-5F Tiger fighter jet, that the Shah of Iran had acquired for his air force. The plane shown by Iran had been painted in black, possibly in order to hide its similarity to its American model. Or the fighter jet might even have been one of those American planes, that the Shah had bought long ago, a plane that originally dates from the 1970s. In any case, whether it was an American-built plane or simply its copy, this plane is nothing for Iran to brag about, a half-century after it was first introduced. But how many Iranians will realize that?
But what about Iran’s other announcement this week?
Earlier this week, Iran announced that they had produced a hypersonic missile that could evade all known defenses….
No country has publicly revealed a missile that surpasses Mach-8, so Mach-15 – over 11,000 miles per hour – sounds like a fantasy. (Such a missile would reach Israel from Iran in about three minutes.)
In May, Russian Kinzhal missiles, which was also claimed to be hypersonic and impossible to defend against, were downed by US-made Patriot anti-missile systems in Ukraine….
The Russians touted their hypersonic missiles as impervious to interception; they were, the Russians declared, “unstoppable.” Six of those Kinzhal missiles were shot down in one night by the Ukrainians, using Raytheon’s Patriot missiles. Now the Iranians are boasting that it is impossible for their hypersonic missile to be intercepted. Why should we believe their claim, given how the Russian Kinzhal missile could so easily be knocked out of the sky and given, too, that the Fattah missile has never been test-fired?
Iran has a history of comical claims. Iran’s “hypersonic” missile flies at a speed of Mach-15, that is 15 times the speed of sound, and can reach Israel within three minutes. The Iranians claim that it cannot be intercepted. This was what the Russians said about their “hypersonic” missile, the Kinzhal –it was “unstoppable.” The Ukrainians, using Patriot missiles, shot down six of the Kinzhal missiles in one night. Why should we think the Iranian Fattah, announced just a few days before the “quantum processor” was introduced to the world, will be able to perform better than the Kinzhal? Do you really think Iranian weapons scientists are better than the Russians?
Keep going, Iran. Announce to the world those fantastical achievements in weapons technology that the ghost of Scheherezade could not have equalled. We’re very impressed. And the Israelis are no doubt quaking in their boots.
Westman says
“Why should we believe their claim, given how the Russian Kinzhal missile could so easily be knocked out of the sky and given, too, that the Fattah missile has never been test-fired?”
We shouldn’t, of course, most of Iran’s past boasting has been fabrication. All current attempts at quantum computing require superconducting temperatures which the PCB, held by Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyariin, in the photo above, could not function.
However, there is only evidence that one Kinzhal missile was downed, the rest is unconfirmed claims from Ukraine that were repeated by the Pentagon. There are a number of reports that the Patriot missile system does not meet its specifications in actual use. We’ll have a more accurate view in the future since the war in Ukraine will continue for some time.
Hindu American says
“Previously, Iran also announced they built a “stealth” fighter jet, the F-313…”
RS, just to show how wrong you are, yes the eyerainians did build one. Do you see one, anywhere? No? QED! It works!
By the way, the legal definition of “Quantum” is also “a required or allowed amount, especially an amount of money legally payable in damages” as in “the court must determine the quantum of compensation due”. So, how can the eyerainians be misrepresenting their future achievements?
Sue them, and voila!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
HF wrote this article, not RS
Walter Sieruk says
If that boast by the officials of that hostile Islamic regime of Iran is true, about its new “hypersonic missile it’s because that treasonous villain Joe Biden made it possible for them to develop that weapon of murderous destruction
That horrible and wicked Biden, with his desire further fund that aggressive and hostile Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran in its vicious schemes to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, be it through the madness of constructing and using nuclear weapons or by other means, as in using its stooge jihad terror /murder organizations, as Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and so forth.
The government authorities of the State of Israel are wise if they to gear up their military power to prepare a vicious and hostile attempted missile strike Islamic Iran against that Jewish nation.
Even a first strike by the Israeli air force on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, sites is appropriate because the authorities of the government well understand the malice -filled violent and aggressive intentions of those in power in that “mullah regime” of Iran.
In other words, a first strike at such site is important and necessary for the State of Israel in self-defense.
As the former US President, James Monroe had, rightly, declared “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Walter Sieruk says
On the topic of Iran that hoax of a deal that Joe Biden still making with that hostile ant-America Islamic tyranny of Iran exposes just how horrendously terribly treasonous Biden actually is. Which resulted in this new Iranian weapon of mass murder and destruction..
That “president” pretender Biden is largely responsible for the gains that America’s enemy regime of Iran obtaining it’s Islamic sinister jihad goal of having nuclear weapons.
Traitor Biden had , is and still continuing to aid the enemy in this , not officially declared by Congress , but also real now type of “cold war” with the despots of Iran.
Joe Biden is either an incompetent feeble -minded fool or a traitorous treasonous villain.
Which even the case with him, Biden by giving away everything to those tyrants of that Islamic regime of Iran who such spiteful enemies of the United States that they publicly refer to her as “the Great Satan” and likewise brainwash and then incite the Iranian people to chant, over and over again “Death to America” reveals much about the sinister and insidious character of subversive creepy old Joe.
Therefore Biden by appeasing supporting and further upholding that anti-American vicious and hostile “mullah regime” has to be a very evil, un-American very despicable and dangerous man.
Keith O says
EH, more BS for the plebeians’ in their rundown, drought ridden sandpit to marvel at.
OLD GUY says
It is amazing at how much money and effort is spent on developing weapons to kill our fellow man. If we took all that money and effort world wide we could improve every person living conditions on this earth.
Kepha says
Still, the USA lags behind China in military technology and has fewer ships in the Indo-Pacific region. Out current maladministration is more intent on having the requisite number of LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ (and better yet if minority) brass hat than it is on defense of the country.