Iran's air force will soon test a new version of a 2000-pound guided-bomb, a top Iranian military commander said.
“The 2000-pound Qassed-1 guided-bomb has been mass produced and given to the Air Force … its new version will be test fired soon,” the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Air Force commander-in-chief Hassan Shahsafi as saying.
“The Qassed-2 has a longer range, more accuracy and enjoys more explosive power than its older version,” Shahsafi said.
The Qassed (Herald) bomb was first test-fired in 2006 during a large-scale military exercise in Iran. In February 2010, media said that Iran officially started production of two new missiles, only three days after it launched a rocket which can carry a satellite, Reuters reported.
