Iran’s provision of around 400 missiles includes many from the Fateh-110 family of short-range ballistic weapons, such as the Zolfaghar, three Iranian sources said. This road-mobile missile is capable of striking targets at a distance of between 300 and 700 km (186 and 435 miles), experts say.

Iran’s defence ministry and the Revolutionary Guards - an elite force that oversees Iran’s ballistic missile programme - declined to comment. Russia’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The shipments began in early January after a deal was finalised in meetings late last year between Iranian and Russian military and security officials that took place in Tehran and Moscow, one of the Iranian sources said.

  • mea_rah@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This comment is almost prefect if one reads it as ironical comment on development after 2014 invasion of Ukraine.

    • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      So I take it you are pro WW3? Why do you think you will even survive it?

      If America continues to engage Russia in a cold war over frozen wastelands that means nothing to us, there is a very real risk of starting WW3. In which case, most of us will die. Ukraine needs to solve its own problems, and so I provided a solution. Boom, war over. Russia is going to win the war eventually anyway, it’s just basic math. Why are any of us still wasting all these resources fighting it?

      It’s all just a question of ego vs intelligence. Whichever side chooses intelligence will end up far better off in the long run.