(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed military source said the regime army had set a new site for Russian’s Tochka ballistic missiles in northern Syria.
The first launch for the regime-own developed missile has claimed the lives of 16 displaced persons on Wednesday when the missile rocked the Kah camp near the border with Turkey, setting tents ablaze according to the White Helmets, a rescue group.
The Syrian Center for Scientific Studies and Research in cooperation with Iran has modified the capacity of Toshka missile to make the missile range exceeding 70 km, as well as modifying the computer of the board, the gas generator chambe.
The launch area is located to the southeast of the town of Azan north of Aleppo city where two large hangars were built in the last few months.
The launch was patronized by engineers from the Scientific Research Center from Damascus, along with experts from Iran and a Lebanese Hezbollah commander named Abu Ali Hassan.
Syria has one of the largest ballistic missile arsenals in the Middle East and is an active proliferator of ballistic missile technology, according to MDAA, Missile Defense Advocacy.
Eight years of war in Syria have killed 560,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6 million as refugees to neighbouring countries.
Zaman Al Wasl
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