Hello,
I think that you all remember the ballistic missile that Iran tested many months ago which is called “Fajer-3” that has range about 2000 Km.
Now, I hear about a missile which is called fajer-3 too which is used in Lebanon nowadays to strike Israel.
But this missile has range 45 Km
Are there two kinds of fajer-3?
By: sealordlawrence - 19th July 2006 at 21:36
The newest models of the Shahab-3 / Zelzal-3 missile have the 2,000km range. This missile is based on the North Korean No-Dong missile with some modifications / upgrades.
The Fajer-3 rocket has a range around 75km.
The latest Shahab model is the 3B, last time I looked into it there were suggestions that it was fitted with an Iskander type manouvreble warhead but I dont know whether this is the case (the re-entry section of the Shahab-3B looks very similar to a system china displayed recently mounted on a DF-15). The Shahab-3B has reportedly entered production. Some Iranian sources talk of an enhanced Shahab-3 with greater range but at the moment it is unclear whether this refers to the Shahab-3B or a further development, the Iranians claim that this programme has replaced the Shahab-4 project. The interesting thing it in my opinion is the TEL, although not capable of any real off-road capability it does give the ability to make finding and hitting it much harder- especially in a country like Iran
Aparently their medium to long term aim is to make all their missiles solid fuel rather than liquid fuel, to the best of my rather out of date knowledge they currently have one solid fuel ballistic missile- a tactical missile with a range of something like 200km and is also supposedly capable of manouvring in flight.
The Fadjr-3 missile is an MLRS rocket, not an ICBM.
By: J33Nelson - 19th July 2006 at 20:57
The newest models of the Shahab-3 / Zelzal-3 missile have the 2,000km range. This missile is based on the North Korean No-Dong missile with some modifications / upgrades.
The Fajer-3 rocket has a range around 75km.
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July 19, 2006 at 12:39 am