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Missile / precision strike · Short-range ballistic missile, solid-fuel

Iranian short-range ballistic missile families

The solid-fuel short-range families that account for most of what Iran fires — road-mobile, quick to launch, and improved generation by generation from a 2000s rocket into precision-guided missiles with ranges published in the hundreds of kilometres.

Fateh-110 lineageIran2000s service entry; successive variants through the 2020s

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

FamilyFateh-110 lineage
VariantsFateh-110; Fateh-313; Zolfaghar; Dezful; Kheibar Shekan; Fattah; Qiam
OriginIran
ManufacturerAerospace Industries Organization
Era2000s service entry; successive variants through the 2020s
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.

Operators

Iran and the Gulf: Fired by the Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Force in the retaliation of June 2025 and throughout the war that began in February 2026. · Ansar Allah (Houthi movement): Derivatives of the family are reported in Houthi hands under local names; the degree of transfer as against local assembly is disputed.

Battlefield role

Volume precision strike against fixed targets within regional range — bases, energy infrastructure, cities — in salvos sized to exhaust the defences facing them.

Strengths

Solid fuel and road mobility, which make the launchers hard to find and fast to use; domestic production at a scale that has sustained thousands of launches; and successive guidance improvements whose accuracy Iran claims and independent assessment partly confirms.

Limitations

Short range confines them to the Gulf and the near region; the newer precision variants are fewer than the old ones; and the production base that makes them is the campaign's principal target set, with United States claims of its destruction carried here as claims. Effect is known through launch counts, not impact counts.

Documented conflict use

Iranian strikes on Iraqi bases hosting United States forces in January 2020 and the retaliation of June 2025 and 2026 are the documented cases; the Gulf-wide launch aggregate for February–May 2026 lives on the campaign record, not here.

Documented formations

Assessed as of2026-09Last reviewed2026-09-09