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Global Reach of Iran’s Ballistic Missiles by Uzi Rubin http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/publications.html#memoranda 48 pgs Nov 2006 The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), incorporating the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, was founded in 2006. While the international community is focused on Iran’s potential nuclearization, it ought likewise to take stock of the developments in Iran's missile technology. Iran’s missiles are an indispensable complement to its nuclear ambitions and merit as much scrutiny as its nuclear program. This study describes and interprets the Iranian missile program within the context of Iran’s threat perception, armament policies, and overall ambitions. Charting the origins of Iran's missile program and its development, the study presents a clear picture of where Iran's missile capability stands today and where it is likely headed. Iran’s space program is a symbiotic adjunct to the missile program, and is reviewed here as well. Among the main conclusions of this study: • Iran’s missile and space programs are progressing with singular urgency: no other country in the world, including established industrialized powers, comes close to Iran in the number and variety of ballistic missiles in development or already deployed. • The Iranians are covering almost all technological bases: ordinary liquid propulsion, storable liquid propulsion, and solid propulsion. Along with ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles, Iran seems poised to add a cruise missile component to its strategic forces. • Iran's development of a space launch vehicle may well be a harbinger of an ICBM. • The range of Iran's missiles has grown steadily decade by decade, from a purely local range to an extended range that is likely to dominate the entire European continent by the end of the decade. David Elazar Rishon LeZion, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.geocities.com/d_elazar (home page) eVoicemail (413) 581-4711 (USA) eFax (801) 672-2976 (USA) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
