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Trump loves Russia Russia loves Iran What’s wrong with this picture that you sit silently by? Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles in one of the most significant known transfers of strategic military technology from Moscow to Tehran. The multiyear covert programme, codenamed C430L, has enlisted some of Russia’s most experienced missile specialists to help Iran develop a new class of weapon capable of threatening US aircraft carriers and other warships in the Middle East. An FT investigation uncovered the programme, which began in 2023 and continued into the US-Israeli war against Iran, through leaked Russian correspondence, travel records and analysis of military patents. The main purpose of C430L is to help Iran to develop a ramjet propulsion system, an engine that allows a cruise missile to sustain flight at several times the speed of sound. Missile and military experts said the technology was almost certainly intended for anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles. (https://substack.com/redirect/39f34349-8fe8-40bb-8fea-4c8884e6ae81?j=eyJ1IjoicDA3ZnQifQ.-e5K6o-fKx1DSQNEqA_06xah7gBDFJ0olHk1irHQOFA) “This is the transfer of a highly strategically sensitive military technology from Russia that the Iranians have wanted to acquire for decades,” said Fabian Hinz, an expert on Iranian missiles and senior analyst with Conflict Armament Research, a UK-based weapons-tracing organisation. “A programme like this would require political clearance from the very top in Russia.” (Source: ft.com)