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Missile / precision strike · Medium-range ballistic missile

Iranian medium-range ballistic missile families

The medium-range families — liquid-fuel descendants of the North Korean Nodong and Iran's own solid-fuel designs — that give the Aerospace Force reach to Israel and to every Gulf state, and whose numbers and accuracy are the most contested figures in the module.

Shahab-3 lineageIranLate 1990s service entry (Shahab-3); solid-fuel and manoeuvring variants from the 2010s

Status as of
2026-09
Last reviewed
2026-09-09

AssessmentModerate confidence

Recognition context, not a stat sheet. The catalogue covers major publicly documented systems relevant to the conflicts Vigil covers — not an exhaustive order of battle. No quantities, availability or current allocations are recorded.

The recordWhat this system is, where it comes from, who operates it and which of Vigil’s modules it is relevant to — with the evidence each of those rests on.

FieldedEvidence: Confirmed
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Record

FamilyShahab-3 lineage
VariantsShahab-3; Ghadr; Emad; Sejjil; Khorramshahr; Haj Qasem
OriginIran
ManufacturerAerospace Industries Organization
EraLate 1990s service entry (Shahab-3); solid-fuel and manoeuvring variants from the 2010s
Appears inIran–Gulf 2026 war · Twelve-day war 2025

Conflict relevance

This is the catalogue's single record for this system. It is relevant to the module below; each module's Force Atlas shows how it is used there.

Iran–Gulf · Force Atlas

Operators

Iran and the Gulf · Primary operator

Iran and the Gulf: The families with the reach to Israel and to the whole Gulf, fired by the Aerospace Force in both wars.

Battlefield role

Long-range conventional deterrence and retaliation against targets beyond the short-range families' reach, including Israel.

Strengths

The only Iranian capability that reaches Israel without an intermediary, successive variants with separating and manoeuvring warheads that complicate interception, and a solid-fuel line that reduces launch preparation.

Limitations

Liquid-fuel variants need preparation that makes their launchers vulnerable; accuracy claims are Iran's; and the number of launchers, which is the real constraint on salvo size, is unknown from open sources and not published here.

Documented conflict use

Fired at Israel in April and October 2024, in June 2025 and from February 2026; interception rates are published by the parties as claims.

Documented formations

PartialConfidence: ModerateSources: IISS Military Balance↗ · Congressional Research Service — Iran, the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz · Missile Matters — Fabian Hoffmann↗MethodologyCorrections

Assessed as of2026-09Last reviewed2026-09-09