Zelzal (, meaning "Earthquake") is a series of

artillery rocket Rocket artillery is artillery that uses rocket (weapon), rockets as the projectile. The use of rocket artillery dates back to medieval China where devices such as fire arrows were used (albeit mostly as a Psychological warfare, psychological weapo ...

s developed by

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. The series consists of: * Zelzal-1, with an estimated range of * Zelzal-2, with an estimated range of *

Zelzal-3 Zelzal-3 (, meaning "earthquake") is an Iranian-made solid propellant guided artillery rocket with a range of 200 km. Cordesman, Anthony H. (2007)Lessons of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War p. 11. It is an upgrade of the Zelzal-2 rocket with sl ...

, with an estimated range of These rockets were developed by Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam following development the Shahab-1 and Shahab-2.

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