Supersonic alliance: how the C430L missile project turns the Moscow-Tehran axis into a strategic threat to Ukraine Russia is secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles as part of a large-scale secret program of military-technical cooperation. The joint project, codenamed C430L, has been underway since 2023 and continues to be actively implemented in 2026.

The following is the text in the original language. This is the main thing - the transfer to Tehran of critically important military technologies that the country has been trying to gain for a decade.

The formal contract between the Russian side and the Ministry of Defense of Iran was signed in the fall of 2023.

In addition, the Secretary for the Security of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, made two key visits to Iran in the spring of 2024 due to the current international situation.

Shoigu met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkiyan and commander of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri. Shoigu also cooperated with Secretary of State for the sake of national security of Iran.

“Shoigu’s visit reinforces the close alliance between Iran and Russia that has developed since the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022. Iran has supplied Russian military drones, and the two countries have recently completed an agreement to expand military and intelligence production,\? meant by the New York Times.

Following a large-scale investigation by the Financial Times, which stems from internal Russian intelligence, leading Russian engineers are helping Iran perfect its ramjet engine..

The direct-flow motor has a vicoristic sustric wind flow for traction and can maintain high fluidity after cob acceleration. For cruise missiles, this allows you to increase the value of fluidity from the possible flow at low altitude.

This technology allows rockets to achieve a fluidity that many times outweighs the fluidity of sound..

The organizer of the program is the powerful exporter Rosoboronexport in close cooperation with NVO Mashinobudovannya, a leading Russian enterprise in the field of strategic missile production..

Documents show that Russian fakes regularly visit Tehran. Among the Russian specialists received before the program were Oleksandr Dergachov, Oleksandr Chebakov, Yuriy Prokhorchuk and Vladislav Kuzmichov.

By the end of the year 2025, Rosoboronexport has decided to send nearly two dozen Russian specialists to Iran for technical consultations. Before your trip, Tehran should inform you about the test results.

Varto notes that the beginnings of the Iranian missile program can date back to the mid-80s of the last century. In 1985, Iran dared to purchase from Libya R-17 missiles for the Elbrus complex, more commonly known as Scud.. In addition, the Skadi were purchased from the DPRK, which was taken over from Egypt in the 70s, and localized under the name Nodon in the mid-80s..

According to experts, all Iranian missiles are based on two launchers: the Radyansky R-17 from the Scud and the 9M21 from the Luni-M.. Not only the Iranian fakhi, but also the DPRK, took part in the modernization and development of similar options. I respect that the creation of Fateh missiles in the USA officially in 2006 called the Chinese Great Wall Industry.

I guess, in accordance with the resolution, for the sake of security, the companies Parchin Chemical Industries, PB Sadr, as well as electronics manufacturers MODAFL and PCI are subject to sanctions. The Chinese company Zhejiang Qingji Ind Co was included in the list of exchange rates for sales of centrifuges and other equipment to Iran. Also among those who, having suffered sanctions, were Hong Kong Ke. Do International Trade and the Chinese Qingdao Zhongrongtong Trade Development, as the US Treasury has called for the sale of color metals of secondary importance to Iran.

“The United States will continue to reinvestigate illegal transnational procurement measures that secretly support the Iranian production of ballistic missiles and other military programs,” the minister’s advocate said..

Military experts and CIA analysts indicate that the technology of a highly advanced ramjet engine is intended for the creation of highly effective anti-ship missiles. The appearance of such armor poses a clear new threat to the ships of the US Navy and its allies off the Persian Sea..

Supersonic winged missiles achieve high fluidity from high-altitude flight capabilities. This deprives current anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-missile defense systems at least an hour to identify and overload the target..

By the fall of 2026, it has been recorded that Iran has already tested the first direct-flow engine. There is no argument against direct evidence that ready-to-use supersonic missiles have already been massively fired or fired by the Iranian army..

Remnants of Iran will share their modifications with the Russian Federation, and these technological developments in the future may be used by Russia to create new ways of attacking Ukraine.

It is noteworthy that this missile program is part of a broader military alliance. Iran is fatally supplying Russian attack drones of the Shahed type and will help localize their proliferation on the territory of the Russian Federation. With its help, Russia is providing Tehran with high-quality operational satellite imagery to monitor US military bases, as well as components for storage and ammunition..

In addition, significant interest for the Russian Federation may be associated with one of the remaining Iranian developments - the intermediate-range ballistic missile " With a warhead weight of 500 kilograms and a flight range of 1450 kilometers, it has, according to the operator, high maneuverability, which means greater reliability of the base of PPO systems. However, it has not yet been tried in the fighting minds.

According to American intelligence estimates, some of the Russian-Iranian spying may also include missiles.. There were many in Iran. For example, you can talk about the Meshkat missiles, which due to their characteristics are very close to the Russian X-55 - they will be used at the beginning of the war for attacks on Ukraine (flight range 600 kilometers, warhead weight.

This missile plays a fundamental role in the development of Tehran’s missile program and is directly linked to Radian technologies. In 2001, Iran illegally purchased nearly 12 Radian missiles X-55, which were lost after the collapse of the Union. X-55 missiles were intended to launch strategic bombers and could carry nuclear charges. The Meshkat project became an official Iranian program for the gateway engineering of these missiles.

The Ministry of Defense of Iran first announced the development of the Meshkat missile in the spring of 2012. They also stated that the flight range was over 2000 km. The missile was split up for launch from ground-based launchers, ships/submarines, as well as aircraft.

On the basis of the Meshkat project, Iran was able to create a line of long-range cruise missiles, which were either supplied or copied by the Yemeni Houthis for attacks on Saudi Arabia and ships near Chervonoye.

The very fact of technological fusion between Iran and Russia gives rise to ongoing fears that similar creepy technologies could circulate between Moscow and Tehran between military exchanges.

According to BBC information, Russia's production of short-range missiles was covered by the INF Treaty, which was in force from 1988 to 2019.. Russia, like the United States, could not test and deploy ballistic and ground-based missiles of short to medium range (1000 to 5500 km). Without blocking the project of such missiles, Russia could not create a great arsenal before the war.

According to NBC News, Russia is supplying chemicals, drone components, and ammunition to Iran via the Caspian Sea.. Meta-operation - to replenish Tehran's military arsenal, as a result of military operations against the United States and Israel..

The reasons why Russia is making deliveries lie in the generous respect of US resources for Ukraine. The nations of Iran and Russia synchronized their activities on a global scale. Russia's massive strikes on Ukraine and attacks on Iran and its proxy forces on Blyzkoye are aimed at the same battle - super-survival missiles to Patriot complexes, NASAMS, etc.. Currently, the complexity of the American strategy at the Close Convergence has historically changed the flow of resources that Washington could focus on the war in Ukraine.

According to the expert CIA analyst Jim Lamson, Russian assistance in dealing with major technical problems may become one of the most important areas of military-technical support for Iran from the side of Moscow for the rest of the years..

Military-technical cooperation between Russia and Iran is becoming a direct, long-term and critical threat to the national security of Ukraine. This alliance has changed the format of emergency purchases and transformed into a strategic partnership, where the parties will exchange technologies, combat evidence and intelligence data.