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The operational weapons are believed to consist mainly of Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 short-range ballistic missiles derived from the ubiquitous Soviet-era R-17/R-300 Scud B and R-17M Scud-C. A longer-range variant, the Shahab-3, capable of hitting all of Iraq, Afghanistan and western Saudi Arabia from ...

Israel says Hezbollah and Iran have constructed bases in Syria to store Iran-manufactured Shahab-1, Shahab-2 and Fateh-110 ballistic missiles, which all put Israel fully within striking range. Yet, arguably Israel's grandest challenge in Syria is incubating in the Golan, which Iran views as Israel's Achilles' ...

Shahab-1, 1987. and -2, 1997. Syria. Houthi rebels. (Yemen). Iran also developed the ability to produce their own Scud versions and is suspected of passing some to the Syrian government and the Houthi militia in Yemen. Lessons from the Scud allowed North Korea to develop the No Dong missile, ...

Iran — then locked in conflict with neighboring Iraq and suffering under an arms embargo — needed missiles. North Korea obliged, supplying Iran with hundreds of Soviet-designed Scud-B and Scud-C ballistic missiles. Iran renamed their new missiles (Shahab-1 and Shahab-2) and used the technology to ...

For instance, Iran's Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 are North-Korean built variants of what was originally the Soviet R-17 (SS-1B Scud-B). The Shahab-3 IRBM is an Iranian version of the North-Korean Nodong. Like the Scud, these missiles use kerosene as fuel and IFRNA (Inhibited Fuming Red Nitric Acid) as ...

After necessary modernization these short-range rockets were named Shahab-1 and Shahab-2, respectively. Sazhin points out that Iran has managed to create Shahab-3, with an operational range of 1,700 kilometers. Consequently, this missile "gave birth" to the Qadr series with three modifications: the ...

There are three variants of the missile: The Shahab-1, Shahab-2 and Shahab-3. The Shahab-1 was the first missile Iran acquired and is based on the Soviet Scud-B missile. Iran reportedly purchased these initially from Libya and possibly Syria, but North Korea has been its main supplier. The Shab-1 has a ...

For instance, Iran's Shahab-1 missiles (Scud-Bs) carry one-ton, high-explosive warheads and have an estimated accuracy on the order of eight hundred to one thousand meters circular error probable, or CEP. CEP is defined as the radius of a circle, within which one-half of the warheads are expected to ...

Iran renamed the missiles Shahab-1 and -2, respectively. The transactional relationship between Iran and North Korea continued throughout the 1990s, with Pyongyang providing missile-maintenance infrastructure and training, as well as medium-range Nodong missiles, which Iran dubbed Shahab-3.