17.08.2004, 09:59
Zitat:IRAN TESTED NEW NAVIGATION SYSTEMQuelle: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/august/08_17_1.html">http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/ ... _17_1.html</a><!-- m -->
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Iran completed the integration of a new Chinese-origin navigation system on the Shihab-3 during the latest test of the intermediate-range missile.
Western intelligence sources said the Shihab-3 test on Aug. 11 did not include a flight launch. Instead, they said, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps simulated a crisis in which the Iranian leadership ordered the launch of the missile from a military base in central Iran.
"The exercise comprised the entire process until actually pushing the button," an intelligence source said. "The entire Iranian leadership attended the test and they feel they've broken new ground."
During the exercise, the sources said, the Iranian leadership relayed orders to a military command and control center for the launch of the missile. The order sparked an alert at the military base in Dasht-E-Kabir near Isfahan and a Shihab-3 was taken out of its silo and installed on a launcher.