RUSSIA has reportedly been secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles built to take out US aircraft carriers.
A bombshell report has revealed how some of the Kremlin’s most experienced missile specialists were enlisted for the top secret programme, codenamed C430L.
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The multi-year covert partnership was uncovered by the Financial Times, who pieced together leaked Russian correspondence with travel records and military patents.
Mad Vlad’s scientists are working with the Iranian regime to develop a ramjet propulsion system – an engine that can send a missile flying at several times the speed of sound.
Such an engine would allow Iran‘s Supreme Tyrant to threaten US aircraft carriers and other warships in the Middle East.
Iranian missiles expert Fabian Hinz said the regime has wanted to get their hands on this kind of tech for decades, adding that Putin himself will have approved the plot.
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He told the FT: “This is the transfer of a highly strategically sensitive military technology from Russia that the Iranians have wanted to acquire for decades.
“A programme like this would require political clearance from the very top in Russia.”
And Iran has reportedly already built and flight-tested the terrifying ramjet propulsion system.
But there is no evidence it has yet deployed a Russian-assisted supersonic cruise missile.
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It comes as the US ramps up attacks on Iran after weeks of relative calm in the region.
Mojtaba Khamenei and Russia’s deranged dictator enjoy an increasingly close relationship, with Iran supplying Shahed drones to Putin.
Ukraine has also accused Russia of sharing battlefield intel with Iran to help the regime target US bases.
And Putin has supplied Iran with information about the whereabouts of US warships and aircraft, sources told the Washington Post at the start of the US-Israeli war in Iran.
One source said the intel-sharing “appears to be a fairly comprehensive effort”.
Sources said that Russia‘s intel comes as the battered Iranian regime’s ability to locate US targets for itself “has been degraded”.
Professor Nicole Grajewski said the top secret ramjet project “shows Russia is trying to broaden the Ukraine war and draw the US into different theatres”.
She added: “Russia doesn’t care as much about the red lines in the region.”
In July, Trump warned China and Russia that interfering in the Iran war “would be very bad for them”.
The US president posted on Truth Social: “President Putin, despite the horrible War going on in Ukraine (The relationship remains, as it does with President Zelenskyy), told me that he would not sell Weapons to Iran.
“He understands that I do not sell Weapons to Ukraine, but to NATO Countries.”
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The US president insisted that the two countries were “not participating”.
But he warned: “If they did, it would be very bad for them — Certainly not in their best interests.”