ran Launches Shahab  With Nuke Warhead Design

September 28, 2004
Middle East Newsline
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LONDON -- Iran has launched a Shihab-3 intermediate-range missile with a nuclear warhead design. Western intelligence sources said the Iranian Defense Ministry has redesigned the original Shihab-3 warhead to accommodate nuclear weapons. The sources said the new warhead was smaller and designed as a bottle-neck in a throwback to U.S. and Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles of the 1960s.

The new Shihab-3 warhead was seen on Iranian television during a report on the Shihab-3 on Aug. 11. The sources said the Shihab warhead was changed from a conical design to that resembling a baby bottle.

The sources said the reentry vehicle of the new Shihab-3 design resembled the Soviet-origin SS-9. The SS-9 was a 1960s liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile launched from a silo and which contained a nuclear warhead.

http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=09&d=27&a=11

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MilAd : Name of a champion of Iran; birth; Christmas; A character in Shahnameh
___________________________________________
Bless you all with Iranian Pride,
May Green, White, and Red, also Faravahar be with you,
Long live Perisan,
Long live Iran,
More power to all,

regarding the new version of the Shahab-3, the following article is recommended:

www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_396.shtml

contrary to what some sources seem to suggest, it appears the warheard design is not taylored to deliver nukes. much rather, it reflects Iran's attempts at increasing the precision of the conventional missile by incorporating advanced guidance instruments in the re-entry vehicle. Iran has been improving the accuracy of its ballistic missiles for some time now, and made public announcements on that subject.

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