These were reverse-engineered into the Soumar ground-launched missile. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. Others claimed it was the Quds 1, a recently unveiled Houthi cruise missile often claimed to be a rebranded Soumar. Length: 7.24 m L’Iran a testé avec succès un missile de croisière de moyenne portée Soumar. The missile was unveiled at a defense exhibition in Tehran on 2 February 2019 during celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Iran officially unveiled their newest missile which has the ability to reach into parts of Europe. However, the origin of the Soumar appears to … © 2021 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Sourmar cruise missile dubbed “Martyr Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis” with a range of 1,000 kilometers was displayed 20 August 2020. "Ce missile sol-sol, appelé Hoveizeh, appartient à la catégorie Soumar des missiles de croisière, qui ont été dévoilés en 2015", a-t-il précisé. Revealed: The Truth Behind Iran’s New Dangerous Cruise Missile. Warhead: Conventional, possibly nuclear capable Named after a city destroyed during the Iran-Iraq War, the Soumar is a reverse-engineered copy of the Soviet-made Kh-55 cruise missile. Propulsion: Two-stage solid propellant [4] Because of the similarities media have speculated its range as between 2000 and 3000 km. Iran’s Defense Ministry, in an unusual public display, on Sunday introduced a new cruise missile, the Soumar. For a land attack cruise missile however Iran turned to the black market and acquired some ex-Soviet Kh-55 (AS-15 KENT) air-launched cruise missiles from Ukrainian sources in 2001. It is believed to be a continuation of the Meshkat missile that was announced by Iran in September 2012. This guided missile–related article is a stub. According to Israeli sources Hoveyzeh cruise missile can bypass all existing American and Israeli defense systems and hit any target in the Israeli territories without being detected.[6][7]. Iran has unveiled its first surface-to-surface missile defense system capable of hitting targets with accuracy and “high precision”, the Iranian Defense Minister announced at a ceremony on Sunday, triggering a fearful reaction of neighboring Israel. Bonjour, Ce blog est édité par Jean René Belliard. The Hoveyzeh is from the Soumar family of cruise missiles. Though the Soumar clearly looks like a derivative of the Kh-55, the revelation of the Soumar appeared to suggest that in just over a decade Iran had succeeded in building a cruise missile analogous in capabilities to the Tomahawk, thereby heralding a major development in the regional military balance. This Iran-related article is a stub. In terms of combat testing, Yemen’s Houthi fighters have fired cruise missiles into Saudi Arabia on … In 2005, Ukraine acknowledged that 12 Kh-55’s (without nuclear warheads) were illegally sold to Iran in 2001 through a black market counterfeit operation. It is highly likely that the missile is derived from the Russian / Soviet Kh-55, several of which were illegally sold to Iran by Ukraine in 2001. In 2015, Iran unveiled a cruise missile called the Soumar that it had reverse-engineered from a dozen Soviet-era Kh-55 cruise missiles it acquired from Ukraine in 2001. The missile was named in the honour of a village called Soumar, whose inhabitants were all killed when Saddam Hussein’s regime attacked the village with chemical weapons. However, to reach that distance, the Soumar would need conformal fuel tanks, which it did not have when it was unveiled in March 2015. The missile was named in the honour of a village called Soumar, whose inhabitants were all killed when Saddam Hussein’s regime attacked the village with chemical weapons. Diameter: 0.514 m Toutefois, en 2015, l’Iran aurait testé le missile Soumar, qui peut atteindre 2 500 kilomètres, plaçant le sud-est de l’Europe – et notamment Budapest – à portée de tir de Téhéran. Rather, Iran has claimed to be developing a turbojet engine called the Tolou-4, similar to the French Microturbo TRI 60-2 engine. However the unveiling did not happen until 2015. Analysts believe that the Soumar’s range is comparable to the Kh-55 which has a range of 2,500 km.