Falcos_Commisar
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The Kilo was improved over the years and has been made under the Improved Kilo designation (Project 636)The Kilo sub, in its day, was diesel-electric fitted with acoustic paneling which is to say, sheets of cork. Back in its day, when not fucked by Soviet maintenance, it was very quiet when running on batteries and resistant to active sonar. They were a legit sub and would have been a threat in the north atlantic in the 80s if things had popped off, even if they needed to surface and burn diesel to recharge their batteries.
However, in the Persian gulf, they are massively fucked as the gulf is shallow enough for satellites to see into the water.
That was also "in the 80s" and the US/NATO has spent the past 40 years developing countermeasures to the Kilo.
I also weep to think of the state of the command systems (radar, sonar, etc)
That said the Iranain ones are the original design buutt USN and especially RN anti sub skill have probably degraded since the end of the Cold War.
Those Kilos would need to get out into the Indian ocean to cause trouble.
Most are, some are far more modern. Their best ones might have a high meter double digit CEP.Iran cannot. their missiles are soviet shit and hitting targets the size of a residential area is about all they have the accuracy to pull off
The VAST majority of Iranian missiles are in the Scud class or a bit bigger or smaller. Their issue is TELs (transporter erector launchers). If you have 2000+ missiles but only 250-350 TELs.... You can only launch 250-350 missiles at once.Why did Iran build a tens of thousands of pretty decent hypersonic missiles but not build up more facilities to launch said missiles or even bother improving their AD? Like they went from launching 600+ in a day to like 30 and some shitty drones.
Israel has been going after TELs extremely hard and they've verifiable killed dozens of them.
Iran is probably keeping a fair amount hidden as a "fleet in being" or last resort strategic reserve so now they're only able to fire 20-40 missiles at once.
Some are that good or even better. Some are horrible POS with 500+ meter CEP.As I've said before, most analysts ballpark Iranian missiles with a CEP of 100-300m, so this is simply not true. Iran absolutely has the ability to target specific blocks or complexes, and they instead choose to sling it at a hospital
Iran has multiple generations of IRBMs.
Lol, they're fucked.