Iran Military Forum

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi announced on Sunday that his ministry has produced a powerful anti-missile system to destroy incoming cruise missiles.

"Experts at the defense ministry have succeeded in building a short-range air-defense artillery system that is able to fire 4,000 shots per minute," Vahidi said in an interview with FNA.

"The system has been produced to confront military threats flying at low altitudes such as cruise missiles," the minister went on saying.

Vahidi stressed that the system will be officially start operation in the near future.

He also pointed out that the ministry is working on different short-range, mid-range and long-range air-defense systems.

Earlier in September 2009, a senior Iranian commander announced that the country's experts managed to build hi-tech missile defense systems capable of tracing and intercepting Cruise Missiles.

"Today, we can not only trace, but also destroy radar-evading Cruise Missiles," Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Ahmad Miqani said.

Miqani also described continued optimization of the existing systems, good interaction with universities and industries, building dozens of home-made flaks capable of competing with the world's modern systems and building anti-aircraft missiles and military and civil defenses as among the most important activities of the base.

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So it seems like the 4,000 RPM anti-cruise missile system wasn't a Gatling gun, although they did specifically say they were building one, however they didn't say this 4,000 RPM system would be it.  

It looks like the Mersad system is a radar and fire control system that integrates the Shahin, the Mersab1, the Samavat and the 100mm proximity fuse AAA.

They are concentrating on low altitude air defence systems rather than high altitude systems and this is not good at all.Even if the iranian paraded s-300 become operational its not enough to confront stealth b-2 and f-22 which will become widely used by americas airforce in any attack on iran.
They need to concentrate on confronting stealth fighters and bombers at high altitudes as they will be the next generation airforce weapons worldwide especialy America.

I think you said the exact same thing on the other thread and i said:

The B-2 and the F-22 are not going to participate in Kamikaze attacks, they're going to use PGMs and cruise missiles and that is what these systems are designed to take out.

I'm not entirely sure this is the 4,000 rpm one. I mean, it's not like Iranian officials / newspapers have never provided false information before, but this system would have an 8,000 rpm (4x Zu-23-2's, @ 2000 rpm)

They are concentrating on low altitude air defence systems rather than high altitude systems and this is not good at all.Even if the iranian paraded s-300 become operational its not enough to confront stealth b-2 and f-22 which will become widely used by americas airforce in any attack on iran.
They need to concentrate on confronting stealth fighters and bombers at high altitudes as they will be the next generation airforce weapons worldwide especialy America.

its not like all fighter can maintance there high altitude from the start tell the targeting.
as my information fighter when the want to go toward the target, they should be at very low altitude to avoid radars.
so base on that
the should fly at middle altitude then go low after hitting the target they need to go to the high altitude by passing the middle altitude.

but for B-2 bomber is totally different story.

as they mentioned before.
the air ride treat is divide as below:
50% in middle, 30% in, 20% in high altitude

Brother shirazi in any army in the world they think how to take out the fighter or bomber but in Iran they think how to take out the projectile.Taking projectiles is good but whats much more important is taking out the source because each fighter or bomber can throw tens of bombs.Maybe the airdefence in Iran can take several projectiles but taking even half of it is impossible because they are  much much harder to destroy.
Seriously Shirazi if the way you are thinking of is the same as the Airdefence commanders thinking i prefer invest the money they are using in making such systems on ballistic missiles or buying advaced fighters for dogfighting.

Okay shirazi as you want just if the defence minister unveiled a descent system wake me up

not bad we saw this in the mersad exibit before i still think we will see a gatling gun since they did talk about it

Nice vid Thanks Shirazi thats alot of bullets flying at once good short range air cover in my opinion

I really hope so, because this is a knock-off of a zu-23

So what? The Zu-23 is manned, this is automated. It appears to be very cheap so you can build them in numbers and they get lead loads of led into the air.

So what? The Zu-23 is manned, this is automated. It appears to be very cheap so you can build them in numbers and they get lead loads of led into the air.

its not bad and a great improvement, but its not a gatlingun that is what I had drawn from the responses.

Well he did specify a Gatling gun being produced and he didn't say it would have 4,000 RPMs and didn't really specify, so it could very well be in the productions.

But i don't think the Gatling gun would be used in the same places as this. This is a cheap CIWS designed to protect the hundreds and maybe even thousands of installations that could be attacked in a war.

it is indeed a cheap CIWS and especially that it is easily automated and can give to be basije. The Iranian defense industry will surprise us more often and wonder where they suddenly come along again