Tehran: Iran successfully test-fired on Friday a new missile capable of avoiding radar detection and striking a number of targets simultaneously, a top military commander announced.
"Today we have successfully tested a new-generation missile capable of hitting different targets at the same time," the commander of the Revolutionary Guards air force, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, told state television.
The locally developed missile, tested on the first day of week-long military exercises in the Gulf, can also "hide from radars and evade anti-missile missiles," he said, without disclosing the range.
"The missile's design and production was done by the scientists in the Iranian defence ministry. It has unique capabilities which are unmatched in the world's advanced armies, since it was built based on our defence needs," Salami said.
"It uses multiple warhead technology, which (means) after the detachment of its warhead it becomes divergent, enabling it to hit different targets at the same time accurately, therefore fooling the enemy's anti-missile systems."
Iran already has medium-range Shahab-3 missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometres, putting arch-enemy Israel and US bases in the Middle East within reach.
Thousands of Iranian troops are beginning wargames in the Gulf to prepare the country's armed forces for warding off "threats" amid increasing tensions with the West over Tehran's nuclear programme.
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