On December 4, the Iranian military released a batch of photos of newly developed equipment. One of the new air-to-surface missiles called Ghaem-114 (also known as Qaem-114, the Persian to English is so troublesome) quickly caused Attention of all parties. The main reason is that the shape of the bomb is basically the same as the AGM-114 (both bombs are similar in number) that are currently used extensively by the US Army's Apache gunship and MQ-9 Reaper UAV. The outside world therefore believes that Iranian technicians have successfully obtained the US Hellfire missile and copied it. In addition, it is worth noting that through the publicly displayed pictures, it can be found that the Iranians have equipped the missile with 4 different seekers, which expands its battlefield applicability.
Iran’s public Ghaem-114
Iran’s public Ghaem-114 is equipped with four types of seekers:
US Hellfire
As you can see from the photo above, the Ghaem-114 missile, regardless of the missile’s aerodynamic design, size or painting , Are the same as the Hellfire missiles of the US military. In addition, the quadruple pylon of the missile is very similar to the pylon of the U.S. Hellfire, and the combination of the missile and the rack also uses slide rails. However, this display is not the first public appearance of the Ghaem-114 missile. As early as February of this year, when the Iranian Revolutionary Guards showed the upgraded Bell-214 helicopter, the bomb appeared as a mounted bomb, but the outside world did not know at the time. The specific name of the bomb. In addition, when the new FOTROS large-scale surveillance drone was later displayed, the bomb appeared again as a mounted bomb, but there was no label name and model at that time. When
showed the upgrade of Bell-214,
had already appeared when the FOTROS large-scale surveillance drone was shown again.
appeared many times without a name. This made the outside world suspect that this was just an Iranian project idea, and until In this demonstration, the outside world discovered that the completion of the bomb was already so high. According to the pictures on display and the Iranian media, Iranian technicians equipped Ghaem-114 with 4 different seekers, while the pictures shown on the scene can identify 3 seekers. They are an infrared imaging seeker, a white light TV seeker and a laser semi-active seeker. There is also a missile covered by a yellow protective cover, which may be the fourth type of millimeter wave radar seeker. The technical difficulty of the four types of seekers is different. White light TV and laser semi-active guidance technology are relatively simple, especially white light TV guidance. Iran has a very mature grasp, and this is also the current Iranian guided weapon The most widely used technology. The second is laser semi-active guidance. Iran also has mature models on display. As for infrared imaging, the technical difficulty is relatively large, but the option of infrared imaging heads has already appeared on Sadid missiles. Z1z
The most used air-to-surface missile of Sadid is TV-guided, and it is also equipped with semi-active laser and infrared seeker
. However, the current Iranian image recognition technology and automatic missile control technology may not be high enough, so most image-guided weapons are not Did not realize that after shooting. As for millimeter-wave radar guidance, it is more difficult, because this missile needs to be used with airborne millimeter-wave radars, and Iran does not have mature and reliable small millimeter-wave radars that can be carried by armed helicopters. The difficulty of developing such a radar is itself Not a small challenge. Even for our military, the Army Aviation has just begun to equip millimeter-wave fire control radars and corresponding new missiles, so there is still a long way to go for the Iranians to get it out.
Our army’s millimeter-wave radar-guided anti-tank missile has just been equipped with
. A U.S. Army MQ-9 Reaper drone that crashed on the border between Syria and Iraq. A Hellfire was captured in good order. Interested in getting the Hellfire missile, in fact, it is not difficult. Because this missile has been used and lost too much in the Middle East. In addition to the US military, Saudi Arabia and Israel have used them in Yemen and Lebanon, and Iraqi militants have also displayed captured US military Hellfire missiles. Iran is very powerful in Iraq and Yemen. The Lebanese guerrillas are basically the sons of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Therefore, as long as the Hellfire missiles are captured in these places, there is a high probability that they will eventually flow into Iraq.Lang people's hands.
