Shahab-1

The Shahab-1 is an Iranian short-range ballistic missile, a variant of the Soviet-designed SS-1C Scud-B with few distinguishing features. It is a single-stage, liquid-fueled, road-mobile missile with a maximum range of about 300 km, a length of just under 11 metres and a launch weight near 5,860 kg, carrying a single warhead of roughly 985 kg. Iran bought Scud-B missiles from Libya and Syria in 1985 and 1986 and from North Korea from 1987, and North Korea then helped set up an assembly plant in 1988, followed by Iranian production lines that opened around 1993 or 1994. The name means Meteor-1. Iran fired nearly 100 Scud-B missiles at Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War, including 77 in 1988 in the War of the Cities, and later used the Shahab-1 against Mojahedin-e Khalq camps in Iraq between the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War. The source names no manufacturing company and no specific operating unit.