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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 10:44 AM | |||
Iran one of the three world country with ballistic missile technology. | |||
Lieutenant
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General
Hossein Salami said Iran is among the only three world country enjoying
an indigenous ballistic missile technology. “Many countries may
have access to cruise missiles technology, but when it comes to ballistic
missiles, I am confident that only the US and the (former) Soviet Union
could master this technology, and now we can announce that we own this
technology as well,” General Salami told FNA on Tuesday, November
26, 2013. |
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Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami |
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Earlier
this month, General Salami said the precision targeting of IRGC's ballistic
missiles has been improved to have a margin of error near zero.
“Our situation has improved now because our ballistic missiles margin of error (in precision targeting) is near zero now,” General Salami said in a ceremony held in Tehran to commemorate the martyrs who were killed in a blast at the IRGC base on November 12, 2011, including General Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam who was in charge of the IRGC's Arms and Military Equipment Self-Sufficiency Program. He pointed to the
role played by the late commander and head of the IRGC Missile Research
Center, Martyr Major General Tehrani Moqaddam, in the designing and
production of high-precision ballistic missiles, and said, “Due
to such attempts the precision of Iran’s ballistic missiles has
approached (a) zero (margin of error) and our ballistic missiles target
moving vessels on the sea and they operate against (enemies') command
and control centers.” The Persian Gulf supersonic ballistic missile is the most advanced and most important missile of the IRGC Navy. The distinctive feature of the missile lies in its supersonic speed and trajectory. While other missiles mostly traverse at subsonic speeds and in cruise style, the Persian Gulf moves vertically after launch, traverses at supersonic speeds, finds the target through a smart program, locks on the target and hit it. The range of the solid-fuel missile is 300km and it can be fired from triple launchers. The missile could successfully hit a mobile target one-tenth of an aircraft carrier in its early tests. In early 2011, Iran started the mass-production of the Persian Gulf anti-ship missile which is designed to destroy targets and hostile forces at sea. |
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