IRN - Falagh 1 (240mm neřízená raketová střela)

Falagh 1 (other names: Falak, Falaq)


Thanks to experience with Soviet 240mm rocket launchers, the Iranian company Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) developed an unguided missile. Iranian missiles are exported abroad, for example by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and the Syrian army.


Basic information
- Manufacturer: Shahid Bagheri Industries (AIO Branch), Iran
- in the arsenal of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps since 1990
- caliber: 240 mm
- length: 1318 mm
- projectile weight: 113 kg
- head weight: 50 kg
- warhead type: highly explosive (HE)
- shrapnel effect: up to 150 m
- rocket engine operation: 1.3 sec.
- initial flight speed: 445 m.sec-1
- the projectile is stabilized by rotation in the longitudinal axis
- range: 10 km
- peak of the ballistic curve: up to 3500 m


Resources
Falagh 1, Factory Industries Organization factory prospectus, Section 3: Rocket Industries Group, 2012 edition
Falagh 1 & 2 Rockets in Iran Defense Product 2013-2016, pp. 157, ISBN not specified
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
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IRN - Falagh 1 (240mm neřízená raketová střela) - Foto z prospektu Defence Industries Organisation.

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