Iran starts production of medium range missiles

Submitted by admin3 on 11 March 2010 - 11:55pm

By IANS,

Tehran: Iran has started production of new medium-range surface-to-air missiles with the aim of upgrading its air defence systems.

Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the missiles can travel with supersonic speed and hit the target at the distance of 40 km.

These technologically advanced missiles are apt in electronic warfare, Vahidi said, adding that the missiles break into small pieces and act as shrapnel, upon impact.

"The mass production of air defence systems is successfully underway and these systems will (soon) be delivered (to the armed forces)," Vahidi was quoted as saying by Press TV.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
By submitting this form, you accept the Mollom privacy policy.

FREE REPRINTS

Unless otherwise noted, you can republish our articles for free. You just have to credit TwoCircles.net and link it back to us, and you can’t edit our material or sell it separately. (We're licensed under Creative Commons, which provides the legal details.). For publishing TwoCircles.net photos please contact info@twocircles.net.