{"id":52724,"date":"2019-12-01T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52724"},"modified":"2019-12-01T13:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:23:37","slug":"iran-navy-mass-produces-jask-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52724","title":{"rendered":"Iran Navy Mass Produces &#8220;Jask&#8221; Cruise Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Dec 1 (NNN-IRNA) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s navy announced mass production of the indigenous submarine-launched Jask cruise missile, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, said, Iranian submarines will be equipped with the missile, the range of which will be improved &#8220;substantially&#8221; in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, the weapon will allow the Iranian navy to hit targets across long ranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The missile &#8220;will surely be a serious surprise for the enemy,&#8221; he said, without detailing on the specifications of the weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the Iranian navy, in an exhibition in the capital Tehran, unveiled a homegrown vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) naval drone, named Pelican-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equipped with four motors for vertical movement and a powerful propeller, the drone can take off from cruising warships for patrol and reconnaissance missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian drone can land and float on water, in an emergency. The Iranian navy has deployed the Pelican-2 on naval fleets in international waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Iran navy displayed an Inertial Navigation System (INS), used for detection and navigation of submarines below the surface, where the conventional GPS system is not applicable.&#8211; NNN-IRNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Dec 1 (NNN-IRNA) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s navy announced mass production of the indigenous submarine-launched Jask cruise missile, Press TV reported. Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, said, Iranian submarines will be equipped with the missile, the range of which will be improved &#8220;substantially&#8221; in the future. He said, the weapon will allow the Iranian navy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}