Iran's Arsenal Of Sunburn Missiles Is More Than Enough To Close The Strait

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First off you were comparing the intercontinental ballistic missile that travels into space and carries nuclear warheads with the tiny sunburn missile that travels just above the ocean water comparing the two is completely absurd

No, I'm mentioning that during the cold war, the Russians spent a lot of money and effort on making mobile launchers to hide from the US. And since the cold war ended, it has been reveled we knew exactly where every single one of them was. Using far older satellite technology.

The Iranians don't have anywhere near the Soviet Union's military budget, and the Soviets failed. And in the subsequent 2 decades, I assume our surveillance technology has gotten much better.

Second you're implying that since the sunburn would be hidden in the mountain ranges around the straits that it would be easy to shoot down once it's launched , that is simply not accurate we cannot shoot down that missile without a whole Lotta luck

No. Try reading again.

When you move the missile further away to hide it in the mountains, you extend reaction time because the missile is traveling much farther.

And you cannot tell me that we have missiles that travel that fast as they're leaving the launch tube, that statement is completely not accurate , go ahead and show me the missile we have that's traveling twice the speed of sound as it leaves the launch tube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot
Edited to add: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3

And as for the missile taking out a ship without even detonating it could totally happen look at the shape charges that were going off in Iraq

So your argument is that explosives demonstrate how non-explosives work. Did you take a moment to think about how dumb this example is? How a pressure wave from explosives is nothing like a strike from a bullet?

Energy equals mass , Einstein taught us this

Only in nuclear explosions where mass is actually converted into energy. In conventional explosions, the energy is entirely dependent on chemistry, and no mass is actually lost. High-energy compounds rapidly oxidize into low-energy compounds.

And then we get down to the case where an SS-N-22 runs into a ship and doesn't explode. Again, no mass will be converted into energy. Instead, the missile will try to punch a hole through the ship's armor. It will likely succeed, but at best we're talking about a relatively small hole compared to the size of a warship. They might have to turn on a bilge pump, if the swells are pretty high that day. Sure, the ship will need repair, and people will die. But the ship will still be floating.