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Iran starts producing new short-range missile
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran launched production on Sunday of a short-range missile capable of destroying targets of 3,000 tons, official media reported.Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi opened the new production facility that will make short-range missiles which can destroy targets at sea, state television's website reported." The official IRNA news agency said it was a surface-to-surface missile, but that it would in the near future also be capable of being fired from the air. "It is a short-range missile which can be fired from the seashore and also from different vessels (ships) and in future it will have the ability to be fired from helicopters and submarines," Vahidi said in Tehran where the facility is located. Vahidi last month opened two other missile production plants, one making ground-to-air missiles dubbed Qaem (Rising) and the other turning out surface-to-surface missiles dubbed Toofan 5 (Storm). Iran's missile and space programs have sparked mounting alarm in the West amid fears that a command of advanced ballistics technologies combined with the nuclear know-how acquired from its declared civilian program may enable it to produce an atomic weapon. Iran denies it is seeking nuclear weapons but has regularly boasted of having missiles that can target arch-foe Israel. Posted by: Fred 2010-03-08 |
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