Iran Test-Fires 4th Generation of Most Precise Home-Made Missile
News number: 9104252685 11:58 | 2012-08-04
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi
announced on Saturday that the country has successfully test-fired the
fourth generation of high-precision Fateh-110 missiles.

"The fourth generation of high-precision Fateh-110 missiles with a range of
over 300km was test-fired by the defense ministry's aerospace industries
organization," Vahidi told reporters in Tehran today.

He said that the new missiles can hit and destroy both land and sea targets,
enemy concentration points, command centers, missile sites, ammunition
dumps, radars and other targets with 100 percent precision.

Iran successfully test-fired the third generation of Fateh-110 missiles in
August 2010.

The Fateh-110 is a short-range, road-mobile, solid-propellant,
high-precision ballistic missile with advanced navigation and control
systems.

The Iranian defense ministry has made great achievements in designing and
producing missiles, including the surface-to-surface solid-fuel Sejjil
missiles, the long-range Shahab-3 ballistic missile which has a range of up
to 2,000 km, and Zelzal and Fateh missiles.

Iran has been pushing an arms development program in recent years in a bid
to reach self-sufficiency. Tehran launched its arms development program
during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons
embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own jet fighters and armored
vehicles as well as radar-avoiding missiles and other high-tech weapons.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and
arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a
threat to any other country