️🇮🇷️. A Paweh cruise missile is shown with a seeker in its nose.
🔴1/ During yesterday's unveiling, a picture of the Paweh cruise missile equipped with an EO/IIR seeker in its nose was shown.
The advantage of using a seeker on Paweh ground attack cruise missiles is that it reduces the missile's reliance on coordinate-based navigation and GPS/GNSS guidance systems.
🔴2/ Reduced, and it can be guided towards the target independently of this guidance system, through image processing and target adjustment in the terminal flight phase, which in addition to increasing resistance to satellite jamming systems and improving accuracy in the terminal phase, can be used to activate moving targets and...
🔴3/ It will be effective in an anti-ship role. Although successfully targeting the U.S. military fleet with a missile of Paveh specifications is difficult because of the likelihood of the missile being intercepted, the Air Force could use this missile to increase the rate of attacks on vessels violating the rules in the area from the Persian Gulf eastward.
🔴4/ The Straits of Hormuz will help. Of course, it should be noted that before the semi-official unveiling of the Fawa missile equipped with an EO/IIR seeker in Apo, this missile was also used during the waves of Operation Nasser-2.