( CNN ) -- Iran has `` successfully '' test fired its newest version of the Fateh-110 missile , state media reported Saturday , touting the accomplishment despite international concerns about Tehran 's growing military capabilities . Footage from state-run Press TV showed a missile on a rocket launcher in a desert area being fired into the air , before seemingly falling somewhere over the horizon . Defense Minister Brig . Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said that the test launch of the missile -- a `` fourth generation '' of the Fateh-110 -- was a success , according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency . `` Iran is among few ... countries capable of producing such missiles , '' the minister said in the IRNA report . The latest Fateh-110 version -- which was tested two years after Iran successfully tested the previous model -- is capable of traveling 300 kilometers ( 185 miles ) and `` can target spots without any diversion , '' IRNA reported . The defense ministry plans to have all home-made missiles with `` this new capability , '' said Vahidi . Iran 's developing missile program has been a hot topic in Washington and elsewhere in recent months , with a new Pentagon report last month finding that Tehran may test a missile that could reach the U.S. mainland within three years . `` Iran has boosted the lethality and effectiveness of existing systems with accuracy improvements and new submunition payloads , '' which allow missiles to drop explosives over a wider area thus causing more destruction , according to the Pentagon report . The report , which was signed by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and sent to senators and U.S. representatives on defense committees , said Iran is continuing to develop other missiles that can hit Israel and Eastern Europe , including an extended-range Shabab-3 and a medium-range ballistic missile called the Ashura that can fly more than 1,200 miles . Iran is still capable of testing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile by 2015 `` without sufficient foreign assistance , '' the report added . The United States and NATO have begun to field an anti-ballistic missile shield in the southern and eastern parts of Europe to protect from such a threat . But John Pike , a weapons analyst with the GlobalSecurity.org research group , said the missile shield is not yet fully operational . Washington has led international efforts aimed at stymieing Tehran 's nuclear program , as well as its ballistic missile proliferation activities . But despite widespread sanctions , Iranian officials have been publicly defiant and regularly highlight developments in both arenas .
Iran 's defense minister says the latest Fateh-110 missile launch is a success . The `` fourth generation '' of the missile can travel 300 kilometers , state media reports . A recent U.S. government report warned of Iran 's improving missile program .