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Defence & Security News - Iran
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Iran has increased the number of its ballistic missiles with more precision-striking capability.
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Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh announced that the country has increased the number of its ballistic missiles, while increasing their precision-striking capability.
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 The West fears Iran is developing ballistic missiles to enable it to launch atomic warheads (AFP/Graphic) Iran Secretly Tested ‘Nuclear-Capable Missiles) |
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"In addition to enhancing the precision-striking power and quality of ballistic missiles, the Iranian authorities and experts have used innovative and shortcut methods to produce inexpensive missiles and today, we are witnessing an increase in production (of ballistic missiles)," General Hajizadeh said in Tehran on Tuesday, December 6, 2016.
Noting that Iran has settled its problems and become self-sufficient in the field of defense and military activities, specially in strategic fields, he said that the country's experts have been able to boost missiles' precision-striking power to the utmost. Iran has numerous programs for the development of ballistic and cruise missiles and long-range artillery rockets, and currently possesses the largest number of deployed missiles in the Middle East. Iran's ballistic missile program began during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), when Iraq's air superiority prevented Iran from striking from ranges greater than 150 km. Iran claims to have developed five liquid-propellant ballistic missiles, (the Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3, Ghadr-1 and Qiam), the Safir space launch vehicle (SLV) and the solid-propellant Sejjil missile. According Internet military sources, Iran has around fifteen types of ballistic missile including the Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3, Shahab-4/5/6, Sejil 1/2, Ghadr-1, Fajr-3, and Fateh-110. |
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