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Tehran fires Tor-M1
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| 09 February 2007 |
By Robin Hughes JDW Deputy Editor
London
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a two-day air-defence exercise on 7 February, which included firing its recently delivered Tor-M1 (SA-15 'Gauntlet') road-mobile shelter-mounted low- to medium-altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems.
Deliveries of some 29 Tor-M1 systems from Russia were finalised in January. The estimated USD700 million contract also included a number of battery-level Ranzhir command posts, transporters and loading vehicles, maintenance equipment, trainers, 9M330/9M331 SAMs, spare parts, accessories and other hardware.
The new systems will be deployed for "the protection of vital military and civilian assets, firstly in Isfahan and then Bushehr, Tehran and in the east of the country", Russian defence sources told Jane's.
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