Shahin_(rocket)

Shahin (rocket)

Shahin (rocket)

Iranian unguided artillery rocket

This article is about Iranian rockets. For the Pakistani ballistic missile, see Shaheen-III. For surface to air missile, see Shahin (surface-to-air missile).

The Shahin-1 and Shahin-2 are Iranian road-mobile truck mounted short-range fin-stabilized unguided 333 mm Artillery rockets.[3] It was designed to be a cost-effective unguided rocket to destroy enemy troop concentrations, installations and fortifications at medium ranges.[2][3] The rocket has been replaced in production by more capable artillery rockets however it is still in active uses.[3]

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Characteristics

In general both rockets are steel body unguided 333 mm 190 kg explosive fin stabilized rockets having seven nozzles with limited accuracy and assembling times of several minutes.[3] They both are launched from unarmoured triple rail launchers.[3]

Shahin-1

It is an unguided 2.9 m long 384 kg 190 kg high explosive 333 mm rocket with a range of 13 km.[3] The rocket had forest green colour with two green, one red and one white stripe, its nose is itself painted white and red.[2]

Shahin-2

It is an unguided 3.9 m long 530 kg 190 kg high explosive 333 mm rocket with a range of 20 km.[3] It had a white painted body with two sets of green, white, and red stripes; on its warhead, it had red fins.[2] It can also be used as an air-to-surface missile.[2]

Operators

See also

Other Iranian rockets

Comparable systems

References

  1. [1]
    "Iranian Artillery Rockets". Federation of American Scientists. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Iranian Artillery Rockets". GlobalSecurity. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Shahin". Weaponsystems.net.


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