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Sunday, August 22, 2010
RIA Novosti: Iran announces Striker bombing drone
15:42 22/08/2010
MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Iranian Press TV reported on the country's first domestically-built unmanned bomber .
The 4-meter long-range drone, dubbed as Karrar or striker, was inaugurated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day in the Islamic Republic.
The presentation of the bombing drone took place a day after Iranian and Russian specialists started fuelling Iran's first nuclear power station.
The construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran Iran's first nuclear plant was begun in 1975 by several German construction companies. They pulled out following a U.S. embargo on hi-tech supplies to Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent U.S. Embassy siege in Tehran.
Russia signed a contract with Iran to complete construction in February 1998.
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