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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Iran test-fires home-made missile system

Sayyad missileIran has successfully test-fired its latest air-defense missile system dubbed Sayyad-2, local semi- official Fars News Agency reported on Saturday.

Sayyad-2 air-defense system has been tested recently and will be unveiled in the near future, Lieutenant Commander of Khatamolanbia Air Defense Base Colonel Abolfazl Farahini was quoted as saying.

The commander said the hawk systems optimized by the Iranian experts have undergone warm-testing at Khondab nuclear facility near the central city of Arak and successfully hit their targets, stressing that the test was aimed at assessing the level of preparedness of Iran's defense systems deployed to defend Iran's sensitive nuclear facilities.

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