Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAccording to Iran\u2019s Mehr News Agency, the Yasin is a smart\nguided missile with folding wings that can be fired from a range of 50 km. of\nits target from manned or unmanned aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Balaban smart bomb is guided by hybrid inertial\nnavigation system (INS)\/Global Positioning System (GPS) guidance and sensors to\nboost its precision capabilities and is equipped with folding wings and can be\nmounted under an aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Qaem optic smart bomb meanwhile is a heat-seeking\nmissile equipped with heat and cylinder seekers that allow the bomb to hit\nwithin 50 cm. of a target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similar to the Balaban, it can be installed on various kinds\nof unmanned aerial vehicles as fighter jets and helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iranian Defense Minister Brig.-Gen. Amir Hatami hailed their\nlaunch as \u201canother significant achievement of power and dignity for the Islamic\nRepublic of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt shows that despite the viciousness and conspiracies of\nthe Great Satan America and its mercenaries, the Defense Ministry will not\nhesitate for a moment to defend the Islamic republic and to expand security,\u201d\nhe was quoted by the Fars news agency as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three precision-guided missiles were unveiled two days after Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brig.-Gen. Mehdi Rabbani was quoted by Fars as saying that the country\u2019s missile was range was continuing to increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor at least the next 10 years, no regional or trans-regional\ncountry is able to counter or fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran in\nground warfare,\u201d he claimed, adding that \u201cour missile power also deters any\nregional and extra-regional acts of aggression, and the range of the missiles\nis also increasing constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned that all US bases in the region are within range of an Iranian strike if any war were to break out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt may be the case that some regional countries and the\nZionist regime have devised such plans [attacks] against Iran, but they know\nwell that if they inflict any minor damage to Iran, they will receive our firm\nresponse as all US bases in the region will get stuck,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if they\nhave a little bit of rationale, they will not enter a war with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite new US sanctions placed on Iran meant to pressure\nTehran over its military activity in the Middle East and its ballistic missile\nprogram, Tehran is continuing to improve its missile arsenal, defending the\nprogram as being purely defensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Islamic Republic possesses over a thousand short- and\nmedium-range ballistic missiles and has the ability to proliferate weapons to\ncountries and non-state actors such as Hezbollah on Israel\u2019s northern border\nand Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iran has unveiled three new precision-guided missiles amid tensions between Iran and the US and European countries in the Strait of Hormuz. The air-to-air missiles revealed by Tehran are called the \u201cYasin\u201d and the \u201cBalaban,\u201d as well as a new series of the \u201cQaem\u201d missile, and were developed jointly by the Iranian Defense Ministry and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-precision-guided-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}