Improved RPG launcher:
Saegheh 40 mm anti-personnel rocket
The Saegheh 40 mm anti-personnel rocket was developed to extend the utility of the RPG-7 portable rocket launchers in service with the Iranian forces. It consists of a rocket-propelled high-explosive warhead designed to detonate with a very loud explosion while emitting blast and fragments from the prefragmented steel warhead body.
Specifications:
Calibre: 40 mm
Weight: rocket, 1.4 kg; warhead, 1.1 kg
Length: rocket, 590 mm; warhead, 310 mm
Max velocity: 150 m/s
Max range: 1,800 m (this must be an error?!)
Manufacturer:
Defence Industries Organisation (Parchin Missile Industries)
PO Box 13185-1543, Tehran.
Status:
In production. Offered for export sales.
Service:
Iranian armed forces.
NAFEZ 40 mm anti-tank rocket
Description:
The NAFEZ 40 mm anti-tank weapon system is fired from Iranian-produced RPG-7 portable rocket launchers. The NAFEZ has what is described as an upgraded HEAT warhead which can penetrate more than 500 mm of armour at a maximum effective range of 350 m. The warhead is initiated by an electro-mechanical fuze armed by the internal pressures of the rocket motor.
Also available is an RPG-7 rocket with a tandem warhead and the NADER rocket motor. The NADER's unitary shaped warhead can penetrate 300 mm of armour and has a maximum range of 400 m. The muzzle velocity is 310 m/s.
Specifications:
NAFEZ
Calibre: 40 mm
Weight: rocket, 2.65 kg (±30 g); warhead, 1.52 kg
Length: rocket with motor, 1.015 m; rocket only, 725 mm, warhead, 420 mm
Velocity: initial, 120 m/s
Max effective range: 350 m
Armour penetration: >500 mm
Manufacturer:
Defence Industries Organisation (Parchin Missile Industries)
PO Box 13185, 1543 Tehran, Iran
Status:
In production. Offered for export sales.
Service:
Iranian armed forces.
40 mm tandem warhead anti-tank rocket
Description:
Although other tandem warhead rockets for use with the RPG-7 rocket launcher have appeared elsewhere, the Iranian tandem warhead rocket is an entirely Iranian design. The rocket features an elongated nose probe, the tip of which contains a 30 mm diameter precursor warhead intended to activate Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) to clear a path for the main 80 mm diameter shaped charge to defeat the main target armour. According to Iranian sources the main warhead can penetrate 350 mm of RHA set at an angle of 90º and 250 mm set at 22º.
Specifications:
Calibre: main warhead, 80 mm; precursor warhead, 30 mm; rocket motor body, 40 mm
Weight: 2.6 kg
Length: 1.15 m
Velocity: initial, 120 m/s; max, 300 m/s
Max effective range: 300 m
Manufacturer:
Defence Industries Organisation (Parchin Missile Industries)
PO Box 13185, 1543 Tehran.
Status:
In production. Offered for export sales.
Service:
Iranian armed forces.