Iran has successfully launched a new anti-ship missile from its first homemade destroyer, Iranian media report.

The state news agency IRNA said the surface-to-surface missile, dubbed Noor, destroyed its target at a distance of about 60 miles.

It was fired from the Jamaran the first indigenously designed and developed guided missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf.

The Mowdge-class vessel, inaugurated last month in a southern Iranian port, has a displacement of 1,420 to 1,500 tons -- about the size of a light frigate or corvette. Based on the designed of British Alvand-class frigates, the Jamaran is equipped with modern radar and electronic warfare capabilities, the English-language Press TV reported.

The ship can also carry up to 140 personnel and is armed with a variety of anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles.

Military experts viewed the missile test as an assessment of the ship's capabilities.

A second domestically built frigate, built on the basis of the same model, is said to be in the final stages of its production. Plans also include the development of an upgraded version of the surface-to-surface missile with a range of 180 miles.

Iran, however, tends to announce military advancements without prior notice or confirmation by independent sources.

Much of Iran's naval equipment is old American-made hardware, dating back to even to before the 1979 Islamic revolution. Since then, Tehran has moved to renew its fleet with equipment, including submarines, from Russia.

News of Iran's military advancements come amid U.S. defense overtures to Gulf states, a move that has sparked Iranian ire.

The United States has also expanded land- and sea-based missile defense systems in and around the Gulf in a bid to promote early warning systems against an Iranian attack.

Tehran is enriching uranium, which many Western countries and Israel suspect is a step toward developing a nuclear bomb -- an allegation which the Islamic country has repeatedly rebuffed.

Although Washington believes that Iran hasn't actually built such weapons, the U.S. administration has been trying to halt Iran's uranium enrichment program.

Iran is under U.N sanctions for failing to adhere to Security Council resolutions demanding that it stop its enrichment plan. Neither the United States nor Israel have ruled out taking military action if Iran fails to comply.

In recent weeks, Iran also announced the launching of a new production line of highly accurate, short-range missiles, capable of evading radar detection.