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Dezful ( fa, دزفول) is a
Dezful ( fa, دزفول) is a medium range ballistic missile
A medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) is a type of ballistic missile with medium range, this last classification depending on the standards of certain organizations. Within the U.S. Department of Defense, a medium-range missile is defined by ...
(MRBM) developed by Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
and unveiled in February 2019 in an underground missile factory. The Iranian armed forces said that this missile has a range of 1000 kilometers (620 miles).
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh
Amir Ali Hajizadeh ( fa, امیرعلی حاجیزاده; born 28 February 1962 in Tehran) is commander of Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps since October 2009.
During Eghtedar-e Velayat war game, on 8 March 2016, Ha ...
said this is an upgrade on the older Zolfaghar model, that had a range of 700 kilometers.
See also
*Fateh-110
The Fateh-110 ( fa, فاتح-۱۱۰ "conqueror"), also known as NP-110 is an Iranian solid-fueled surface-to-surface ballistic missile produced by Iran's Aerospace Industries Organization since 2002. It is single-stage, road-mobile and can c ...
* Zolfaghar (missile)
The Zolfaghar ( fa, ذوالفقار) missile is an Iranian road-mobile, single-stage, solid-propelled SRBM named after Zulfiqar the sword of Ali, Ali ibn Abi Talib. It is believed to be derived from the Fateh-110 SRBM
A short-range ballistic mi ...
* Haj Qasem (missile)
* List of military equipment manufactured in Iran
In recent years, the Iranian government states that it has self-sufficiency in essential military hardware and defense systems.
Tehran established an arms development program during the Iran–Iraq War to counter the weapons embargo imposed on ...
* Science and technology in Iran
Iran has made considerable advances in science and technology through education and training, despite international sanctions in almost all aspects of research during the past 30 years. Iran's university population swelled from 100,000 in 1979 ...
* Raad-500 (missile)
Raad-500 missile ( Persian: موشک رعد ۵۰۰) is an Iranian SRBM/Tactical ballistic missile which is equipped with a progressive composite engine that is dubbed as "Zohair (Persian: زهیر)". Raad-500 means "Thunder 500", and it has been d ...
* Khorramshahr (missile)
The Khorramshahr ( fa, خرمشهر), named after the city of Khorramshahr in Iran, is a medium-range ballistic missile that was tested by Iran in January 2017. Its range is between 1,000–2000 km with a 1,800 kg warhead and is 13 m in ...
References
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