Thanks to experience with smaller calibre missile launchers, a large calibre unguided missile was developed by the Aerospace Industries Organisation (AIO) of Iran. Iranian missiles have been exported abroad, for example they are used by the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and some photographs suggest that they have also entered the arsenal of the Syrian army.
Background - Manufacturer: Shahid Bagheri Industries (AIO affiliate), Iran - in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards since ... - Calibre: 333 mm - Length: 1820 mm - weight: 256 kg - Weight of warhead: 117 kg - Type of warhead: High Explosive (HE) - rocket motor operation: 1,85 sec. - Initial flight speed: 376 m.sec-1 - the missile is stabilised by rotation in the longitudinal axis - range: 10,8 km - Peak ballistic curve: up to 3200 m
Sources Falagh 1, Defence Industries Organisation factory prospectus, Section 3: Rocket Industries Group, 2012 edition. Falagh 1 & 2 Rockets in Iran Defence Product 2013-2016, p. 157, ISBN n.d. N.R. Jenzen-Jones, Yuri Lyamin, Galen Wright: Iranian Falaq-1 and Falaq-2 Rockets in Syria, ed. Armament Research Services 2014, ISBN 978-0-9924624-1-3 www.mindexcenter.ir www.mindexcenter.ir
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Foto z prospektu Defence Industries Organisation.
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Heavy rocket Falagh-2 placed on an iranian jeep Kaviran.
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