Defense Industries open major plant to produce explosives
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, April 6, IRNA -- The Defense Industries Organization affiliated to Iranian Defense Ministry launched a factory for producing the HMX explosives, also known as octogen, on Wednesday.
The modern explosives and its components are used in production of an array of missiles including the ballistic, cruise, anti-aircraft, surface-to-surface and anti armor missiles helping improve precision of such weapons.
Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan said in the inauguration ceremony that his ministry is following a strategy to build a powerful defense infrastructure for the country and modernize its capabilities.
He said that the Defense Ministry has focused on optimization of the missiles being produced in Iran.
'A key strategy and main goal pursued by the Defense Ministry is increasing the destructive power and sophistication of the domestically-produced missiles by relying on more powerful explosives,' he said.
The defense minister also praised Iranian engineers and experts at the ministry's Defense Industries Organization for acquiring the technical know-how to produce the modern explosive.
'In order to acquire the technology from the foreign countries to produce octogen, Iran needed to pay a high price and it was not acceptable,' he added.
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