Iran started mass-production of home-made advanced Valfajr torpedo in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Hussein Dehqan and Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on Tuesday.

Iran started mass-production of home-made advanced Valfajr torpedo in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Hussein Dehqan and Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on Tuesday.

"The advanced Valfajr torpedo which is smart and enjoys the anti-deception capability, high speed and a warhead with high explosive and destruction power can surprise the targets and giant vessels within a few seconds before striking, destroying and drowning them completely," Dehqan said during the ceremony, elaborating on specifications of the new torpedo.

He stated that short time of preparation and firing is another specification of the torpedo which distinguishes the weapon from its counterparts and increases the tactical power and swiftness of the naval forces' surface and subsurface units.

For his part, Sayyari revealed other details of the torpedo, and said the weapon enjoys increased range, precision and explosion and destruction power compared to the torpedoes which have earlier been developed in the country.

"The weapon has its most uses in submarines and it can track targets smartly, using radar and sonar systems, and destroy them with very high destruction power," he added.

The torpedo controls its direction using four fins that skim the inner surface of the supercavitation envelope. To change direction, the fin or fins on the inside of the desired turn are extended, and the opposing fins are retracted. To make faster turns, the push plate on the nose can be used to control the shape of the bubble the missile is traveling in.