Shahab-3
Sign in to saveThe Shahab-3 (; meaning "Meteor-3") is a family of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles developed by Iran, under the IRGC, and based upon the North Korean Nodong-1/A and Nodong-B missiles. The Shahab-3 family has a range of 1,000-. It was tested from 1998 to 2003 and added to the military arsenal on 7 July 2003, with an official unveiling by Ayatollah Khamenei on July 20. It has an estimated accuracy of about 2,500m CEP. According to the IAEA, Iran in the early 2000s may have explored various fuzing, arming and firing systems to make the Shahab-3 more capable of reliably delivering a nuclear warhe
Key facts
- Weapon.is_missile
- yes
- Weapon.name
- Shahab-3
- Weapon.image
- Great_Prophet_II_(30).jpg
- Weapon.type
- Strategic MRBM
- Weapon.vehicle_range
- - (Shahab-3 ER)
- Weapon.filling
- One () at 1,000-2,000 km– five cluster munition warheads in new models ( each), each warhead can target different destinations.
- Weapon.launch_platform
- Vehicle
- Weapon.variants
- A,B,C,D
- Weapon.engine
- Liquid propellant rocket
- Weapon.guidance
- inertial navigation system
- Weapon.accuracy
- 2,500 m Circular error probable
- Weapon.altitude
- 400 km
- Weapon.speed
- 2.4 km/s at altitude of 10–30 km in final stage which is about Mach 7
- Weapon.service
- 2003–present
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Shahab-3A
- Shahab-3B
- Shahab-3C and D
- Galleries
- History, development and tests
- Timeline
- 2008 Great Prophet III test
- Operators
- Current operators
- See also
- References
- External links
The Shahab-3 (; meaning "Meteor-3") is a family of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles developed by Iran, under the IRGC, and based upon the North Korean Nodong-1/A and Nodong-B missiles. The Shahab-3 family has a range of 1,000-. It was tested from 1998 to 2003 and added to the military arsenal on 7 July 2003, with an official unveiling by Ayatollah Khamenei on July 20. It has an estimated accuracy of about 2,500m CEP. According to the IAEA, Iran in the early 2000s may have explored various fuzing, arming and firing systems to make the Shahab-3 more capable of reliably delivering a nuclear warhead.
The forerunners to this missile include the Shahab-1 and Shahab-2. Iran's Defense Ministry has alternately denied plans to develop a Shahab-4 and admitted that a Shahab-4 program is in development, having claimed it both to be a MRBM and an SLV. Some successors to the Shahab have longer range and are more maneuverable.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shahab-3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.