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Basir

Iranian laser-guided 155 mm artillery shell

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ4867544 ↗
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Basir is an Iranian laser-guided, 155 mm high explosive artillery shell designed to destroy tanks, vehicles and other moving or non-moving targets with high precision.

These shells were unveiled on January 30, 2012, on the first day of the so-called "Daheye Fajr", a key point during the Islamic Revolution by defense minister Ahmad Vahidi. He later added that this system is very useful in mountainous areas.

Iranian TV showed some footage of the weapon being fired from an HM 41 howitzer at land and sea targets. It has a reported range of 20 km.

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The public source identifies “Basir” as iranian laser-guided 155 mm artillery shell. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Basir, Iranian and laser-guided.

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This entry incorporates text from “Basir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.