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JinWoo Kim, IQ 289
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🚨🚨🚨 IRAN JUST REVEALED IT HAS RUSSIA'S MOST TERRIFYING UNDERWATER WEAPON → AND THERE IS NO DEFENSE AGAINST IT 🚨🚨🚨
The IRGC commander just went on camera and said it.
"We have underwater missiles that travel at 100 meters per second. Only two countries in the world have them — Russia, the manufacturer, and us."
He's talking about the VA-111 Shkval.
Process that.
THE WEAPON:
→ A supercavitating torpedo — it creates a GAS BUBBLE around itself underwater
→ Travels at 360 km/h — FOUR TIMES faster than any conventional torpedo
→ At that speed, no ship on Earth can react in time
→ No countermeasure exists. None. ZERO.
→ From launch to impact on a carrier: under 30 seconds at close range
THE PROBLEM:
→ The US Navy's entire Hormuz strategy depends on surface ships
→ Aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers — all sitting on the water
→ The Shkval was designed for ONE purpose: killing ships that think they're untouchable
→ Iran has been hiding these in underground "Vessel Cities" — tunnel networks packed with attack boats, cruise missiles, and thousands of mines
💀 One Shkval = one destroyer GONE
💀 No evasion possible at 360 km/h — the ship is dead before sonar finishes processing
💀 Iran doesn't need to CLOSE Hormuz — they just need every captain to know what's underneath them
Insurance rates on tankers just became INFINITE
Iran is actively MINING Hormuz right now — UK just confirmed it
Oil spiked 10% to $96/barrel TODAY
The US is refusing to send naval escorts — and NOW you know why
The IEA is preparing the LARGEST emergency oil release in history
They're showing you oil prices and diplomatic statements.
They're NOT showing you what's sitting in those underwater tunnels pointed at every ship in the Persian Gulf.
You don't reveal your most classified weapon on live television for no reason.
→ You reveal it when you want EVERY navy in the world to know the cost of entering your waters.
→ And that only happens when you've already decided the Strait belongs to you.
This is the most dangerous naval standoff since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Prepare accordingly.
Most people won't see this. RT to change that.
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First designed in the 1960s by the Soviet Union.
The VA-111 is launched from 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes at 50 kn (93 km/h; 58 mph).
A solid-fuel rocket accelerates it to cavitation speed, with a combined-cycle gas turbine in the nose creating the required gas bubble.
Once accelerated, speed is maintained by an underwater ramjet fueled by hydro-reactive metals using seawater as both reactant and the source of oxidizer; the torpedo travels at around 200 kn (370 km/h; 230 mph).
Some reports indicate that the VA-111 possibly exceeds speeds of 250 kn (460 km/h; 290 mph), and that work on a 300 kn (560 km/h; 350 mph) version was underway.
"Shkval 2" - Current variant; believed to have additional guidance systems, possibly via the use of vectored thrust, and with a much longer range.
A less capable version currently being exported to foreign naval forces. The export version is referred to as "Shkval-E".
Speed:
Launch speed: 50 knots (93 km/h; 58 mph)
Maximum speed: 200 knots (370 km/h; 230 mph) or greater
Range:
Around 11–15 km (6.8–9.3 mi) (new version). Older versions only 7 km (4.3 mi)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval
