Iranian Army has successfully test-fired new home-made anti-tank rocket during military exercises

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Monday, December 16, 2013 09:26 AM
 
Iranian Army has successfully test-fired new home-made anti-tank rocket during military exercises.
The Iranian Army has successfully test-fired its new anti-tank rocket along with a series of other weapons, Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced on Sunday, December 15, 2013. In July 2012, former Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi inaugurated the production line of a new home-made anti-armor missile system named 'Dehlaviyeh'.
     
The Iranian Army has successfully test-fired its new anti-tank rocket along with a series of other weapons, Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced on Sunday, December 15, 2013. In July 2012, former Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi inaugurated the production line of a new home-made anti-armor missile system named 'Dehlaviyeh'.
Dehlaviyeh guided missiles manufactured locally by Iranian defense industry.
     

General Pourdastan pointed to the Ground Force’s recent wargames codenamed Qamar-e Bani Hashem, and said, “In the recent wargames, the Ground Force’s new anti-tank rockets and the new weapons supplied to the Ground Force by the Defense Ministry were successfully tested.”

"The Dehlaviyeh missile is one of the most hi-tech anti-armor missiles designed for destroying different advanced tanks which are equipped with reactive armor," Vahidi said at the inauguration ceremony of the missile system.

He also reiterated that the missile has been equipped with a special guiding system (which is resistant to different types of enemy's electronic warfare), a warhead and a missile-launcher and a portable engine-propeller.

"The missile system has been designed in a way that it can hit both fix ground targets and mobile armored targets," Vahidi said.