Iran Announces Military Defence System

[dipsydoodle]

Source: NewsTime

Iran’s Defence Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said the country would today announce a defence project if “great importance”.

Stating that the country would no longer need any aid from other countries, Vahidi said the project had heightened Iran’s defence capability. The Mehr News Agency reported that Iran would test-fire a new grade of missile today. This comes as the Iran begins fuelling its first nuclear energy plant in Bushehr, in the country’s south.

The plant is being mooted as an energy centre though some Western sceptics believe Iran still harbour nuclear weapon ambitions. Iran is believed to be looking to enrich uranium to weapons grade level. The United States has been a vocal opponent of Iran’s plans to enrich its own uranium. White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said this month :” Russia is providing the fuel, and taking the fuel back out. It, quite clearly, I think, underscores that Iran does not need its own enrichment capability if its intentions, as it states, are for a peaceful nuclear program”.

Russia has called the Bushehr facility :” the most important anchor holding Iran to the non-proliferation regime”.

Read more: http://www.newstime.co.za/WorldNews/Iran_Announces_Military_Defence_System/9743/

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I actually picked this up on CNN's tv news ticker.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. The Mother of All Military Defense Systems?

[OnlinePoker]

2. Article on fox says it's a 4 meter drone with a 1000 km range

Long range(?) bomber that can carry 4 cruise missiles. Those have to be some small missiles to fit in a 4 meter craft...that's only 13 feet.

[dipsydoodle]

3. I think there's this too

Iran Announces Test-Firing of New Qiam Missile

Iran's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi is saying Friday that Tehran has test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile called the Qiam-1. The announcement comes amid a flurry of alleged new military developments in recent days, as Iran prepares to launch its new Bushehr nuclear plant Saturday.

Iranian government TV showed the test-launch of a new surface-to-surface missile Friday, which its defense minister is calling a "new class" of missile with increased capabilities.

Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi explains that the new Qiam-1 missile has many improvements over its predecessors.

He says that the Qiam-1 missile is a new class of solid-fuel missile and he claims that it is better than older missiles because it has a better guidance system and that it can be operated faster and under more varied circumstances. He also claims that the missile is capable of evading enemy interception.

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Iran-Test-Fires-Missile--101159654.html

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4. Of course the missile test depends on how well the video is edited.