New up-date in North Korean & Iran Ballistic Missile & Space Booster Developments
[Link: www.globalsecurity.org...]
Iran Goes Operational with its Family of Solid Propellant Ballistic Missiles.
Iran made it official that as expected it has started the early deployment in 2008 of its operational solid propellant strategic ballistic missiles. The Ghadr-101 single stage missile with a 750-800 kilometer range was quietly recently paraded in Tehran, Iran on Sunday September 21, 2008. The deployment also includes two variants of the Ghadr-110, 110A ballistic missile intended replacement for the Shahab-3A, 3B and 3C liquid propellant ballistic missiles with a 2,000 kilometer range. However the Ghadr-110/Samen/Sejjil (baked clay) two stage solid propellant missile flown on November 10, 2008 has a range of 2,000 to perhaps 2500 kilometers but previously Iran has flight tested the Ghadr-110A Ashura three stage ballistic missile with a range capability of 2,000 to as much as 3,000 kilometers. This is depending on its warhead payload mass and staging configuration. The entire development flight tests of the Ghadr-101, 110, 110A series missiles has been carried out in country with little or no announcements until they have become operational if any announcement at all. At present it is apparent that the Ghadr-110/Samen/Sejjil is being deployed in its 2,000 kilometer range version with a 1,000 kg tri-conic warhead. That tri-conic “baby bottle nose” warhead and its dimensions fits in the same logistic envelop as the Shahab-3B, 3C series lands mobile TEL’s. All of these solid propellant missiles use some liquid propellant systems for stage propulsion in flight attitude steering control.
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