The Shahin-1 and Shahin-2 are
Iranian road-mobile truck mounted short-range
fin-stabilized unguided 333 mm
Artillery rockets.
It was designed to be a cost-effective unguided rocket to destroy enemy troop concentrations, installations and fortifications at medium ranges.
The rocket has been replaced in production by more capable artillery rockets however it is still in active uses.
Characteristics
In general both rockets are steel body unguided 333 mm 190 kg explosive
fin stabilized rockets having seven
nozzle
A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid flow (specially to increase velocity) as it exits (or enters) an enclosed chamber or pipe.
A nozzle is often a pipe or tube of varying cross sectional area, a ...
s with limited accuracy and assembling times of several minutes.
They both are launched from unarmoured triple rail launchers.
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.
The rocket had forest green colour with two green, one red and one white stripe, its nose is itself painted white and red.
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.
It had a white painted body with two sets of green, white, and red stripes; on its warhead, it had red fins.
It can also be used as an
air-to-surface missile
An air-to-surface missile (ASM) or air-to-ground missile (AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on land or sea. There are also unpowered guided glide bombs not considered missiles. The two most common prop ...
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Operators
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Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Armed forces of Sudan
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See also
Other Iranian rockets
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Oghab
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Naze'at
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Zelzal-1
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Zelzal-2
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Zelzal-3
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Fajr-5
The Fajr-5 (rarely Fadjr-5, fa, فجر-۵, "Dawn") is an Iranian 333 mm long-range multiple launch rocket system (MLRS). The Fajr-5 was developed during the 1990s and has since been exported to various armed actors in the Middle East.
The F ...
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Arash
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Tondar-69
Comparable systems
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Jobaria Defense Systems Multiple Cradle Launcher
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T-122 Sakarya
The T-122 Sakarya is a Turkish multiple launch rocket system developed by ROKETSAN.
Overview
As part of the modernization drive undertaken by the Turkish Military in the 1980s and 90s several new rocket systems were developed for the needs o ...
References
Rocket artillery
Artillery of Iran
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