A chinese YJ-12B costal defense system firing. Photo via the Yonhap News Agency.
Iran is very close to a deal with China to purchase advanced supersonic anti‑ship cruise missiles, Reuters reported on February 24.
According to the news agency, the deal for the CM‑302 missiles is near completion, though no delivery date has been set yet.
Negotiations with China to buy the missiles, which began at least two years ago, accelerated sharply after the 12‑day war between Israel and Iran last June, the agency said, citing six people with knowledge of the talks, including three officials who were briefed by the Iranian government as well as three security officials.
As talks entered their final stages last summer, senior Iranian military and government officials traveled to China, including Massoud Oraei, Iran’s deputy defense minister, according to two of the security officials. Oraei’s visit has not been previously reported.
Reuters didn’t clarify how many missiles were involved in the potential deal, how much Iran had agreed to pay, or whether China would go through with the agreement now given heightened tensions in the region.
“Iran has military and security agreements with its allies, and now is an appropriate time to make use of these agreements,” an Iranian foreign ministry official told the agency.
The CM-302 is the export version of the YJ-12, which was developed by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC)
The missile was developed to disable ships with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons. However, it can be also used in a land attack role. It has a range of 280 kilometers and a warhead weighing at least 250 kg.
The navigation system of the missile relies on the Chinese satellite system BeiDou, with a data-link for mid-course updates. The missile is equipped with an active radar seeker for terminal homing to achieve a 90% probability of hitting its target.
According to CASIC, the missile is supersonic throughout its flight. The missile travels at a mid-course speed of Mach 1.5-2 and accelerates to Mach 3 or higher during the terminal flight phase.
“It’s a complete gamechanger if Iran has supersonic capability to attack ships in the area,” Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli intelligence officer and now senior Iran researcher at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies think tank, told Reuters. “These missiles are very difficult to intercept.”
The missile will exchange Iran’s already-large arsenal of anti-ship missiles, which includes not just cruise missiles, but also ballistic missiles modified to attack naval vessels.
Reuter’s report came amid a large U.S. military buildup in the Middle East and direct threats from President Donald Trump to Iran. Recent weeks saw two rounds of indirect talks between the two countries, but most reports indicate that war is around the corner.
Even if Iran ended up finalizing the deal with China, it is highly unlikely that it will be able to receive CM-302 missiles before or amid a war with the U.S.
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al sudani is a crazy psychopath. first, he allowed pedophiles to marry eight-year-old girls. only a trump supporter would do something so sick. then he demanded the disarmament of the yazidis in sinjar. given that isis is gaining strength in syria because the kurdish and assad armies gone, there is clearly only one wish. al sudani wants the death of all yazidis and the sexual slavery of all yazidi women.
don’t worry instead of being a bunch of devil worshipping lesbos the yazidid women will settle down and be absolutely horrible mothers, destroying their peoples enemies in the ends of ends
al sudani = arab epstein. soon he will commit suicide then get killed by an iranian rocket in rothshild blv. in israel.
al sudani is a supporter of donald trump. that’s why he’s bothered that the yazidis in sinjar are armed, and that’s why he allowed the marriage of old pedophiles (people like donald trump) to eight-year-old girls. isis is getting stronger and now it has k. i hope the democrats punish donald trump and i hope isis-k punishes al sudani and the other pedophiles. just like the jewish guards, when they first broke the scrotum of the nazies and then hanged them.
old wrinkly middle aged women can be cougars and go after young boys who are blind and lack sense
there were jewish and black american guards.i hope isis-k returns to punish iraqi pedophiles and that the democrats in the us return to power to punish putler and trump. sudani deserves to be captured alive by isis-k for allowing pedophiles to marry eight-year-old girls. all american soldiers who did not defend their kurdish allies deserve to be deployed to ukraine. into the trenches of world war l and newsom give them anthony fauci as their leader.
only syrian prezident al culani aka al djulani al muhammed can save the world
general zaluzhny was at least smart enough to blow up putin’s gas pipeline.dr. anthony fauci would be ideal for ukraine’s chief of staff because he would keep putler from leaving his bunker for five years after his death. war crimial putler pig would bury himself alive like a cat when it saw a commander virus. like the cat that buried itself in the sidewalk when it saw the muscular mouse in the tom and jerry cartoon.
putlers only crime is fighting like girlscout so he can still talk on the phone with macron.
once a twink always a twink.
should have done that six months ago, duh!
teraz to już za późno. zanim to dostarczą to persji może już nie być lub, być pod władaniem żydowskiej ameryki
it may be too little to late. i fear what the zio globalists have planned to complete. every regime change trick that has been attempted on iran has failed to date. direct war is the last option in the war banker play book. which has been followed to the letter.
observation: in the articles about syria and iran especially, the useless comments and commenters come thick and fast, drowning the whole section – my guess is mossad operatives, to control the narrative and to derail.
it’s good to just watch and observe how they do things, look for patterns…
the world knows how the usadmin treats iranian negotiators. the iranian admin must be about done with us ‘negotiations’. when the usadmin isn’t bombing, it’s issuing threats like cheques that will never be cashed. perhaps iran doesn’t quite have enough missiles for all their targets and need a few from china to complete the rout of us warships? time will tell.
good….pump up iran with lots of anti ship and anti air capabilities. i lik to see zionists drown or shot down
revenge for ukraine and taiwan. bog the amerikunts down in another 29 year war.
whaat is the used to have nuclear powered countries who does nothing while usa rape,kills and rob is it suits them
iran should flatten israel for once and for all and keep on attacking usa and sink its weapon carier nuclear warships.