Iranian Tough Talk of the Day: "Iran to unveil new Moshkat cruise missile."(TI). "Head of the IRI Defense Ministry's Aerospace Industries Organization General Seyed Mehdi Farahi told Fars News Agency that Iran will unveil new generated Moshkat cruise missile with 2000 km range in near future.
"God willing, the Meshkat (Lantern) Cruise Missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (about 1280 miles) will be unveiled in the near future," Deputy Defense Minister Mehdi Farahi said today.
Farahi said Iran has started generation of cruise missiles with producing 15km short-range cruises. Iran enjoys Ghadir, Zafar, Noor and Nasr cruises. Farahi said that Iran's under research and produced cruise missiles are 14 types in total. According to his statement, Moshkat can be launched from land-based, sea-based and air-based facilities towards targets. A cruise missile is a guided missile that carries an explosive payload and is propelled, usually by a jet engine. Head of the Defense Ministry's Aerospace Industries Organization added that the established missile shields in the region are not able to resist against Iran's mass missiles launch.Read the full story here.
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