Tag Archives: Missiles

TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force commander said on Sunday that Iran’s defense industry has launched an eye-catching plan to produce smart weapons, Tehran Times said Monday. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that the defense industry is to equip weapons with domestically-made smart instruments, adding, …

TEHRAN – A senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander said that the process of digging underground missile cities has never stopped in the past 35 years, Mehr News Agency reported Tuesday. “The idea of [building] these cities go back to the [Persian year] 1363 [1984] i.e. the start of …

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday it was unacceptable for nuclear-armed states to forbid Ankara from obtaining its own nuclear weapons. “Some countries have nuclear warhead missiles, not one or two. But (they tell us) we can not have them, that I can not accept,” he …

SEOUL – South Korea on Friday said that Pyongyang has fired two missiles into the sea off its eastern coast, shortly after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un rejected any further talks with Seoul over a recent joint military exercise with the US. The South Korean military said in a statement …

SEOUL – North Korea on Saturday fired, what appeared to be two short-range missiles, South Korea said in a “show of force” against joint military exercises between the United States and Korea South, Reuters reported Saturday. Other missile launches are very likely, as the North Korean army conducts its own …

KABUL – Bagram Airbase, the largest US military base in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan, was shelled with missiles on Wednesday night, a local official said. Abdul Wasay Rahimi, Deputy Police Chief of Parwan said the missiles were fired at around 9 pm last night. In retaliation, the US airstrikes …