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The site “The Drive”, which specializes in military affairs, has published a detailed report on the new Iranian missile program.
Recent videos show an underground Iranian ballistic missile installation, in which groups of missiles ready to be launched are moved around huge tunnels using an automated rail-like system.
As posted by the website “The Drive”, the vertical “warehouses” appeared to contain a cluster of missiles ready for a rapid, rolling launch from the underground cave bunker.
On its YouTube channel, the semi-official Iranian Military Achievement Agency stated that “vehicles carrying long-range ballistic missiles can continue to fire from this platform.”
Missile preparation area in Iran’s underground missile base: pic.twitter.com/ZUFDRqiOD9
– Tal Inbar (@inbarspace) November 4, 2020
He added that “the quantity and continuity of missile launches will increase dramatically in a safe atmosphere”, that is, inside a protected underground cave.
The Drive says this new platform is broadly in line with Iran’s recently announced “missile farms” where short-range ballistic missiles are hidden in buried launchers to help reduce their exposure to pre-emptive strikes.
In the case of the rail missile depot, analysts have identified the weapons used in it, which are medium-range ballistic missiles and Emad liquid fuel, derived from the Shahab-3 missile.
The Imad missile has a range of approximately 1,600 km and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Nice picture of the EMAD ballistic missile in its cradle, arriving at the cargo area on the launch pad. pic.twitter.com/LcbYVrjVBd
– Tal Inbar (@inbarspace) November 4, 2020
In the same context, “Newsweek” magazine reported that Iran had shown a new long-range missile system.
The commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, spoke of this system, which includes a complex series of seemingly underground rails to transport, supply and launch successive missiles at high speed, warning Iran’s opponents.
A detailed report, issued by the US State Department earlier this year, released details related to the Iranian missile program, which does not stop only at its borders, but extends to its Houthi supporters. in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon, which continues to violate UN Security Council resolutions.
The second part of the report discussed the Iranian regime’s threat to regional security through the use of ballistic missiles in strikes against US forces in Iraq in 2020, targets in Iraq and Syria in 2018, and precision cruise missiles against facilities. Saudi oil companies in September 2019.
The report indicated that Iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile force in the Middle East, with more than 10 types of ballistic missiles in service or under development.
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