Iran Military Forum

Wisdom,

Your analysis is fairly accurate - and validates my point - the 4 independent engines with a turbopump each is the Iranian choice since the advanced option - a common turbo pump -  is much more complex and in its current level of rocketry expertise Iran can not do it.

And they will get there since they have the expertise and the intelligence, but have not had the 50 years that other countries have had...so unlike your inclination that they lack basic knowledge of advance rocketry they are more advance than 180 other nations today...I think that makes them pretty high on the list...and if you have a more accurate analysis based on the 4 photographs posted above I would love to hear your analysis

Wisdom,

Iran is among handfull of nations possesing space launch capability. It is a little bit misleading to state that Iran is more advanced than 180 other countries, since most of them are not involved in space launches based on their own choice, and not lack of know how.

The Simorgh launch vehicle ws analyzed in public over a year ago (for  example ACW blog, Iran's Ballistic Missile Capabilities: A Net Assessment by IISS) and it was based on much more than the 4 photographs posted above...