"Juergen Nieveler" wrote in message
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"George" wrote:

But if they can't aim it, it means nothing. They say it can evade
radar. Yeah, who's radar? They're radar is 1970s vintage. Ours?
Highly unlikely.

Extremely likely, actually - Torpedoes rarely get picked up by radar :-)

Incorrect, since we use airborne radar to detect torpedos (among other
technologies, such as sonar) and can detect supercavitating missiles. You
did note that Iran bragged about the radar-evading material they've coated
this thing with, didn't you?

They make it sound like something special, but the fact is that the
U.S. has supercavitating weapons already.

The Iranians weren't saying "We got something you don't have", only
"Look at what we have".

They can prance all they care to. It makes no difference whatsoever.
Saddam had exocet missiles, and they couldn't hit the broad side of a barn
with them, despite the fact that the Exocet is a good system.

They have nothing new here,

No doubt about that. GUIDED supercavitating torpedoes would be
something new, but I doubt that Iran was able to copy the "Barracuda"
:-)

We've already got something that will knock a Barracuda right out of the
water. I think I posted a link to it already.

nothing that can't be taken out during the first days of any air
campaign.

That's a totally different story... Unlike Iraq, Iran still has a
working air defense system and has had lots of opportunities to learn
from the demise of its former enemy.

And as we have seen, air defenses are completely vulnerable to aircraft and
missiles they cannot see. Not a problem there either.

George