{"id":249369,"date":"2022-02-09T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249369"},"modified":"2022-02-11T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:04:18","slug":"irgc-unveils-precision-strike-ballistic-missile-with-range-of-1450-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249369","title":{"rendered":"IRGC unveils precision strike ballistic missile with range of 1,450 km"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Feb 9, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,450 kilometers (900 miles), which enjoys high agility\u00a0and is capable of striking its designated targets with pinpoint accuracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The missile, dubbed Khaybar Shekan, was put on display on Wednesday during a ceremony attended by Chief of Staff of Armed Forces Major General\u00a0Mohammad Bagheri, Commander of the IRGC\u2019s Aerospace Division Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, and a number of other high-ranking military officials and commanders.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration ceremony coincided with celebrations in Iran commemorating the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the US-backed Pahlavi dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Khaybar Shekan is reportedly among third-generation long-range missiles indigenously developed and manufactured by military experts at the IRGC\u2019s Aerospace Division.<\/p>\n<p>The new missile uses\u00a0solid propellants and is said to be capable of penetrating into\u00a0missile shields with high maneuverability during its landing stage.<\/p>\n<p>The modern design of Khaybar Shekan\u00a0has reduced its weight by a third in comparison with similar missiles, and the\u00a0preparation time\u00a0to\u00a0launch\u00a0the missile\u00a0has apparently decreased to one-sixths compared to conventional projectiles.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the new ballistic missile enjoys considerable agility and high velocity when hitting its targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran is consistently improving its missile capabilities to counter aggressors, oppressors, global arrogance as well as murderous Zionists,\u201d Bagheri said during the ceremony, emphasizing that the Islamic Republic will continue the trend both quantitatively and qualitatively.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that enemies would not have cared about ethics, humanitarian principles, human rights and widespread condemnation if they could obtain anything other than huge costs and losses out of aggression on Iran.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s IRGC unveils a new long-range ballistic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/missile?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#missile<\/a>, dubbed \u2018Kheibarshekan\u2019 (castle buster), with capability of hitting targets within a range of 1,450 kilometers with pinpoint accuracy. The new missile is propelled by solid fuel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YxE3QeQpAx\">pic.twitter.com\/YxE3QeQpAx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Abas Aslani (@AbasAslani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbasAslani\/status\/1491349209358147584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bagheri also hailed the \u201cdynamic\u201d deterrent power of the Iranian Armed Forces, saying the country is expanding both its inventory of military hardware and human resources.<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon study has recently acknowledged\u00a0Iran\u2019s missile power, saying its arsenal is larger than that of any other Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran has an extensive missile development program, and the size and sophistication of its missile force continue to grow despite decades of counter-proliferation efforts aimed at curbing its advancement,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of Washington-imposed sanctions, Iran has made\u00a0great achievements in its ballistic missiles program.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, an American political analyst said Iran\u2019s missile program has disrupted the strategic military calculations of the United States in the Middle East, altering the balance of power in a region where Washington has long sought to maintain a military edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US\u00a0fears Iran is upsetting the hitherto American-enforced regional balance of power whereby Washington and its allies were supposed to have a decisive military advantage over the Islamic Republic,\u201d Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based American political commentator, told Press TV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2022\/02\/09\/676474\/IRGC-unveils-precision-strike-ballistic-missile-with-range-of-1,450-km\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With improved accuracy over Iran\u2019s earlier missiles and  a range of 1,450 kilometres (900 miles), the missile can reach Israel and U.S. bases in the region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":249371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249372,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249369\/revisions\/249372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}