Military Technology and Naval Defense Systems

Look, for example, one of the major developments was that in

the world, only a few countries can hit a moving carrier.

We had a Persian Gulf ballistic missile

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that we developed ten or fifteen years ago, specifically for vessels.

But it used satellite coordinates and such.

Well, we wanted to hit a carrier, to break

the blockade,

um… we’d use either cruise missiles, drones, or

ballistic missiles.

With jamming, disruptions, and electronic

interference—

Yes.

they would deflect them. And as for the rest, whatever came in, GPS was in

their hands.

The satellites were in their hands. They could provide false coordinates and

then defend themselves. They had the best air defense systems.

Um.

It wasn’t that easy to hit. Why? You had to launch 500 drones

for one of them to hit it, and that too would have been necessary.

Anyway, you had to do it, but at close range, the farther

away it stayed, the farther away it was, naturally the harder

the job became.

Yes.

We have a special torpedo that was unveiled ten or fifteen

years ago—the Hoot—

Yes.

Only the Russians and we have it.

You know, a torpedo goes underwater quietly. It moves slowly.

The missile is extremely fast. The Hoot—

You combined these two.

The Hoot is a hybrid, after all. But even for that, you

have to get within, say, 50 or 60 kilometers

to hit it—

Yes.

Then it has to operate. It wouldn't allow that either. What are you going to use to carry the Hoot

there? It won't let you get any closer either. This had become a problem.

Look, this is where it becomes a source of national pride, you know?

Right.

It didn't say— Any other country would say, "Sir, this is a

technology

I need, and I don't have it—

We don't have it.

It will take me 40 years to get there. Maybe I will, maybe I won't—

So forget it.

That's it! We surrender.

This is where you should be proud of your Defense Ministry's aerospace industries and

the IRGC Aerospace Force personnel.

They deserve appreciation.

Within four months, they built a missile

that, to this day, Western think tanks and media

They wonder what this system is. It’s independent,

self-reliant, it no longer needs satellites and such.

Well.

It goes after a carrier. You know, a carrier doesn’t stand still.

First of all, in open waters or in the middle of the ocean or in

the sea, it’s like a needle in a haystack. Now where will you find it… Go find it.

Yes.

It finds it without apparently needing

satellites and such. It goes looking for it.

Wherever it goes, this goes after it. Now, it’s said to have

thermal-optical guidance, meaning it has a camera that can track it.

But some others say no, it has a sensor.

Others say no, it has some other electronic system.

Nobody knows what it has.

Well.

S— m-many people say this is Qasem Basir, which—

Yeah, I saw that several foreign TV channels talked about it, yeah.

It goes 2,200 kilometers, it’s ballistic, hypersonic,

it travels at high speed. Well, we tested this—

Yes.

And it hit. It hit those two. So much that they panicked.

CENTCOM panicked and abandoned the mission. I mean,

in a fluster, with “uh, uh”—it was clear he was worried and

hastily wrote that they, uh, had maneuvered and done this and that to it.

Nor would you expect him to say, “My ship got hit.” Who in the world would? Not everyone has one.

And even those who have them haven't, so far,

hit an American ship with them. American ships have

incredibly

powerful defense systems. They have anti-torpedo systems underwater and anti-

surface-vessel systems, and anti-

Yes.

ballistic missile systems and—well, they're very—

protected against everything, yes.

It's a city. The big aircraft carriers have five thousand people

aboard. The Tripoli, no, fewer. That's a smaller ship.

It's amphibious. It's somewhat different from that one.

Yes.

But a big ship with five thousand people is a mobile city.

Do you think you can hit it and its accompanying cruiser

that easily? Just that easily, it would be like a bomb going off around the world—

It would ruin the reputation of American weapons, of their defenses, and

of the ship itself.

Yes.

It would have been a very big deal.