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.

  • Vas@mastodon.social
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    9 months ago

    @Thief_of_Crows @0x815 Never surrender to aggressors. If you appease dictators you licence them to go further. Russia’s threats against the west are empty. They are unable to conquer one country let alone NATO. If Russia launch even one nuke their cities would be levelled in minutes and they know it. The best solution would be for the Russian people to wake up to the fact they are losing their sons to satisfy the ego of the maniac Putin and remove him and his cronies.

    • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      If Russia launches one nuke at USA, we will all die. Russian cities will be irrelevant to us then.

      Of course you surrender to aggressors. If you can’t feasibly win the battle, continuing to fight is the best way to lose the war too. Combat is about making very few highly powerful strikes. The rest of the time, you are surrendering and repositioning in order to actually make those strikes.