Iran Starts Producing Octogen Modern Explosives

[Purveyor]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A factory was opened in Iran on Wednesday for the mass-production of HMX (octogen) explosives, which are used to increase the efficiency of different missiles and air defense weapons.

The factory was opened at the Defense Industries Organization of Iranian Defense Ministry in a ceremony in Tehran.

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The Iranian defense ministry has in past years focused on the strength and penetration of warheads in different weapons.

It has thus put high on its agenda the achievement of technical knowhow for the production of octogen explosives and its compound products.

HMX (octogen) is a powerful and relatively insensitive nitroamine high explosive used almost exclusively in military applications, including as a solid rocket propellant.

It is usually utilized in different missiles, air defense weapons, anti-armor weapons, and marine weaponry, and enhances their effectiveness and efficiency.

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http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/04/06/1041354/iran-starts-producing-octogen-modern-explosives

Iran Announces Plan To Produce Explosives Used In Missile Warheads

Iran intends to produce the powerful explosive Octogen for use in the warheads of its missiles to improve their “destructive and penetration power,” Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said Wednesday.

Octogen is used as an explosive in penetrating missile warheads and as a solid rocket fuel — but is also employed as part of the detonator in an atomic bomb.

During a ceremony to inaugurate a Octogen production plant, Dehqan stressed Iran’s goal of gaining the know-how to make the explosive material in order to avoid relying on external sources.

“Concurrently with its efforts to increase the precision-striking power of its weapons systems, the Defense Ministry has also paid attention to boosting the destructive and penetration power of different weapons’ warheads and has put on its agenda the acquisition of the technical know-how to produce Octogen explosive materials and Octogen-based weapons,” he said, according to a report from the semi-official FARS news agency.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-says-its-planning-to-produce-explosives-used-in-missile-warheads/

[dembotoz]

1. treaty does not cover this..... would you prefer they buy it from us death merchants?

[WDIM]

2. The US is gonna be upset

We only like it when brutal dictatorial regimes buy their weapons from us. How dare they make their own. Our arms manufacturers need to feed their families we cant let countries just start building their own weapons.

Im sure President Clinton will make sure we send more weapons to Isreal and the Saudis to make up for it

[Katashi_itto]

3. They are making explosive Chuck Norris's ?

[bluesbassman]

4. Nah, Chuck only explodes after a meal at Chipoltle.

[Katashi_itto]

5. True!