Shahab-6 ( fa, شهاب ۶, meaning "Meteor-6", or Toghyân, Persian: ) is the designation of an alleged

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ian long-range

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project.

Capabilities

According to reports released in 1996, the missile has a range of about 14,000 kilometers, and its manufacturing technology comes from

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and

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. According to these reports, the Shahab 6 missile was operational until 2014; And it is a completely redesigned model of North Korea's Taepodong 2 ballistic missile (Enkasasal-X-2). No reliable estimates of the Shahab-6's capability exist. According to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i intelligence, both the Shahab-5 and Shahab-6 would have a range of 8,500-10,000 kilometers. The ''

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'' reported Israeli prime minister

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as describing the Shahab-6 as having the capability to reach the US Eastern Seaboard.Cordesman, Kleiber, p. 151Cordesman, Al-Rodhan, p. 401

Variants

Shahab is the name of a class of Iranian missiles, service time of 1988–present, of which three variants are confirmed:

Shahab-1 The Shahab-1 ( fa, شهاب ۱, Ŝahāb 1, meaning "Meteor-1") was the foundation of the short-range Iranian missile program. During the Iran–Iraq War, Iran purchased R-17 Elbrus missiles from Libya, Syria and North Korea ( Hwasong-5). It is a ...

Shahab-2 The Shahab-2 ( fa, شهاب ۲, Ŝahāb 2, meaning "Meteor-2") is the successor to the Iranian Shahab-1 missile. It is based on the North Korean Hwasong-6 (modified version of the Hwasong-5, itself a modification of the R-17 Elbrus). On Novem ...

Shahab-3 The Shahab-3 ( fa, شهاب ۳, Šahâb 3; meaning "meteor-3") is a liquid-propelled medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) developed by Iran and based on the North Korean Nodong-1. The Shahab-3 has a range of ; a MRBM variant can now reach (c ...

, while the Shahab-4, Shahab-5, Shahab-6 (Toqyān) were alleged to exist by Western and Israeli sources in the early 1990s but these allegations were not proven.

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