Tehran established an arms development program during the IranIraq War to counter the weapons embargo imposed on it by the US and its Western allies.

Iranian missile names. The Iranian Khorgo underground ballistic missile site is almost operational after new launching positions were constructed satellite images obtained by Fox News show. The missile which has the rather on-the-nose name Khalij Fars Persian Gulf is derivative of Irans domestically developed Fateh-110 short-ranged ballistic missile. In October 2019 Iran was reported to have joined the club of countries operating ramjet engines.

Since 1992 Iran has manufactured its own tanks armored personnel carriers missiles radars boats submarines. Iranian experts have made some changes to Shahab-3 missiles installing cluster warheads. There are three variants of the missile.

Iran unveiled two new missiles on Thursday including a surface-to-surface ballistic missile named after Maj. A Zolfaghar missile Iran fields a family of increasingly accurate short- and now medium-range solid-fuel missiles with ranges of up to 1000 km 625 miles and possibly as far as 1400 km 880 miles according to Iranian sources. Over the years Iran has worked to increase the ranges of anti-ship missiles like the NASR Nuclear Artillery System Rocket from Pakistan and its own Noor anti-ship missile which is an Iranian copy of the Chinese C-802 anti-ship missile system.

The Shahab-1 was the first missile Iran acquired and is based on the Soviet Scud-B missile. In recent years the Iranian government states that it has self-sufficiency in essential military hardware and defense systems. Its first model also known as Shahab-3A has a range of 1300 km 810 mi.

It is possible that the titles initially referred to programs that. Iranian land attack cruise missile - martyr Abu Mahdi in honor of deputy of head of Iraqi PMU that was killed together with Iranian general Qasem Soleimani If I understand correctly this is a. Soon after Iran came with a new model called Shahab-3B which has a range of 2000 km 1200 mi and can carry a heavier warhead.

The missiles had ranges from 300 km to up to 2000 km. Iranian state television reported dozens of missiles were fired including Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 missiles.