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Iran 'test fires' medium-range missile


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NEW DELHI (BNS): Iran Wednesday successfully test-fired a new medium-range surface to surface missile, according to media reports.

Addressing a crowd in the northern town of Semnan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, the Sajjil-2 missile used "advanced technology" and had "landed exactly" on the unspecified target.

"The defence minister Mohammed Najjar told me today that we launched a Sajjil-2 missile, which is a two-stage missile and it has reached the intended target," he said.

Solid fuel was used to launch the missile which had a range of 2,000km (1,240 miles). “It was able to go beyond the atmosphere then come back and hit its target,” he added.

Solid-fuel missiles are reputedly more accurate than liquid-fuel missiles, which make up the majority of Iran's long-range arsenal, reports said.

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