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“The missile’s flight altitude is up to 12 km, and the range is up to 100 km. These are, frankly, very indecent characteristics for such a weapon. True, the flight speed is low, but sufficient to destroy helicopters, drones, low-speed aircraft, armored vehicles, fortifications, etc.”. Opinion.
Yuri Kasyanov
Serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
February 19, 2023 at 10:05 am
Photo: Facebook/Yuri Kasyanov | Iranian missile 358. In February 2020, such a missile shot down a CIA aircraft with flight number 358 in Afghanistan outside the MANPADS strike zone
Pictured is an Iranian Model 358 missile. The apotheosis of the development of the military-industrial complex of a pariah country, which has been under international sanctions for a long time.
This is not even a rocket – it is a strange, at first glance, hybrid of an anti-aircraft missile and loitering drone. The design of the product is completely non-standard – they made it from what is available to Iran, they did it with imagination and a twinkle, and as a result they got a unique, universal weapon that no one else in the world has, and which our Ukroboronprom will never make.
The rocket is compact, easily disassembled into several parts that can be carried in a backpack. Starts from a primitive guide using a powder accelerator. In flight, it uses a miniature turbojet engine, the same as those used in model aircraft. There are no scarce parts in the rocket, and its control is available to any Mujahideen who has mastered the TV remote control and a mobile phone.
The missile flight altitude is up to 12 km, and the range is up to 100 km. These are, frankly, very indecent characteristics for such a weapon. True, the flight speed is small, but sufficient to destroy helicopters, drones, low-speed aircraft, armored vehicles, fortifications, etc.
The duration of the missile flight is 15 minutes, so the missile can barrage in search of a target. The product carries a high-explosive fragmentation warhead weighing 10 kg. The fuse is built on the basis of 16 laser target sensors, which are sold on aliexpress.
The name “anti-aircraft missile 358” was given to this weapon by the CIA when in February 2020, in Afghanistan, a CIA aircraft with tail number 358 was shot down by a missile outside the MANPADS kill zone (much higher).
And we have no sanctions. But there is Ukroboronprom.
Description of the details of the Iranian missile 358
Photo: Facebook/Yuri Kasyanov
The wreckage of the CIA aircraft tail number 358, shot down in February 2020 in Afghanistan by an Iranian missile
Photo: Facebook/Yuri Kasyanov
