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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Iran tests new short-range missile

This is an enhanced version of the Fateh-110 missile now have longer range and greater accuracy against land and sea targets. shall have reported Saturday successfully tested an improved version of its short-range ballistic missile The Fateh-110 is designed to hit targets both marine and terrestrial. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's defense minister, said the missile has a range about 300 kilometers and is capable of hitting targets with pinpoint accuracy, which supposedly makes the rocket more accurate the Iranian army. As the general said, quoted by Iranian state television, are "few" countries the world "that have the technology to build missiles of this type."Vahidi said that this fourth generation of rockets designed to "reach and destroy targets on land and at sea, command and control center enemies as well as ramps launch missile and radar bases "among others.The previous version of the Fath-110 (or conqueror), which uses solid fuel, had a range of 200 kilometers. In a report last June, the Pentagon made mention significant progress achieved in Iranian missile technology of war. The Israeli press has reported that members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, funded and sponsored by Iran, have a large arsenal of missiles in the first version of the Fateh 110. 

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