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

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49. So are they small or large?

Your first paragraph talks about just how small the missiles are. They're tiny. Despite 30 years of technology, we couldn't possibly spot them!

Your last paragraph talks about just how huge they are. They'd leave a gigantic exit wound!!!

Pick one. The missile is either small or large.

Your links that you think shows we have missiles that travel at twice the speed of sound as they leave the silo actually show no such thing ...

My links were out of convenience to a popular site that isn't going to be blocked at most people's work. The fact that you don't know how fast Patriot and SM3 missiles fly doesn't bolster your position.

And again , when a shaped charge sends a piece of metal into a military transport does it just leave a small hole

Pressure waves from explosives that happen to be carrying shrapnel aren't the same as a dud missile.

implying a missile would leave a missile sized hole is absurd

I said roughly missile sized. It's not going to be an exact silhouette of the missile.

We're not talking about tiny fishing boats here. The smallest ships likely to be involved are destroyers, and they're 500 feet long. Carriers are 1000 feet long. The SS-N-22 is about 6 feet wide including the wings. Those wings aren't going to penetrate a damn thing, so now we're talking about something about 3 feet in diameter. Let's pretend that it magically creates a hole three times it's diameter. That's a whopping 9 foot hole. That's not going to sink any naval vessel. Especially because that hole is going to be well above the waterline.

Take a moment to think about this: If the missile's speed alone was enough to sink navy ships, why would the Russians bother to put a warhead on it at all? Warheads are expensive and heavy. If you don't need it, you don't put one on so your missile is cheaper, lighter and better-performing.

have you ever heard of a exit wound

You do realize ships aren't full of non-compressible liquid, right? Exit wounds happen in people because water doesn't compress, and we're mostly water. So the energy blows out into other areas. Ships are full of highly compressible air.