Production line of long-range shells launched by defense minister
News Code: 217993 Publish Date: 1389/06/07 - 10:36
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Tehran, Aug 29, IRNA - Production line of long-range 130-mm shells was
inaugurated here on Sunday by the defense minister.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of the
new achievements of the Defense Ministry, Minister of Defense and Armed
Forces Logistics Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said the shells with the
range of 42 km will be used to destroy positions of the enemies in long
distances.

He reiterated that the shells act as Ballistic missiles.

The new achievement will increase the combat and operational potentials of
the armed forces significantly, the minister added.

Such achievements are indications to the self-sufficiency of the Islamic
Republic in various fields and would prove that enemies' sanctions have no
effect on the Iranian nation, Brigadier General Vahidi noted.

The Defense Ministry has made public a number of its latest achievements
during the Government Week (August 24-30).

The period is designated to the memory of former Iranian president
Mohammad-Ali Rajaie and his prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar who were
martyred in a bomb blast in the Presidential Office on August 30, 1981.

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