Sunburn and Yakhont, question

[mlach]

Can Sunburn, Yakhont or any other advanced anti-ship missile that Iran posses be launched from a land vehicle? I think this is important, because in the case of conflict their fleet and aircrafts quickly will be destroyed. Mobile land launchers are easier to hide, and have better chance to survive and be used.

 

[Grand Danois]

Can Sunburn, Yakhont or any other advanced anti-ship missile that Iran posses be launched from a land vehicle? I think this is important, because in the case of conflict their fleet and aircrafts quickly will be destroyed. Mobile land launchers are easier to hide, and have better chance to survive and be used.

Iran doesn't possess any supersonic sea skimming missile. They do have some subsonics, which can be fired from shore installations or vehicles.

 

[crobato]

Can Sunburn, Yakhont or any other advanced anti-ship missile that Iran posses be launched from a land vehicle? I think this is important, because in the case of conflict their fleet and aircrafts quickly will be destroyed. Mobile land launchers are easier to hide, and have better chance to survive and be used.

Even if they have these missiles, which they don't, land based anti-ship missiles fired from mobile launchers still need some radar station, either stationary or mobile, in order to detect the ships and relay the targeting information. These radar stations or mobiles are themselves vulnerable to attack through methods not dissimilar from those attacking SAM sites and radar stations.

 

[mlach]

Thank You both for explanation. I asked my question because of this article:

---http://www.rense.com/general59/theSunburniransawesome.htm---

 

[merocaine]

This is my favorite bit

This very night, as he sips his cognac, what is Vladimir Putin thinking? Is he perhaps thinking about the perverse symmetries of history? If so, he may also be wondering (and discussing with his closest aides) how a truly great nation like the United States could be so blind and so stupid as to allow another state, i.e., Israel, to control its foreign policy, especially in a region as vital (and volatile) as the Mid-East.

One can almost hear the Russians' animated conversation:

"The Americans! What is the matter with them?" "They simply cannot help themselves."

"What idiots!"

"A nation as foolish as this deserves to be taught a lesson"

"Yes! For their own good."

"It must be a painful lesson, one they will never forget. "Are we agreed, then, comrades?"

"Let us teach our American friends a lesson about the limits of military power..."

muaaaahahaha!