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Iran Says Underwater Missile Test-Fired
just in.. Yahoo, sorry, but the ratchet up a know for Iran means an interesing week ahead.TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday it has successfully test fired a high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying warships and submarines. The Iranian-made missile has a speed of about 222 mph underwater, Gen. Ali Fadavi, deputy head of the Navy of the elite Revolutionary Guards, said. He called it the fastest underwater missile in the world but it has the same speed as the Russian-made VA-111 Shkval, developed in 1995 and believed to be the world's fastest. It was not immediately known if the Iranian missile was based on the Shkval. "It has a very powerful warhead designed to hit big submarines. No warship can escape from this missile," Fadavi told state-run television. You may well get to test that claim much sooner than you think. Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-02 |
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