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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Iran Tests New Automatic Cannons In War Games

Iran tested on Oct. 6 new automatic cannons and rocket launchers on the fifth day of war games aimed at showing off its defensive capabilities, the military said.

”The range of cannons and rockets tested today is between 75 kilometers (45 miles) and 120 kilometers (75 miles) and it is the first time that a new generation of automatic cannons with a range of 75 kilometers has been successfully tested,” the maneuver’s spokesman, Brigader General Ali Fazli, was quoted as saying by the student news agency ISNA.

Iran’s elite revolutionary guards launched the 10-day war games Oct. 2 by firing, for the first time in maneuvers, its longer-range Shahab-3 ballistic missile, triggering widespread international concerns.

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