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The Israeli army said Sunday that Iran launched dozens of suicide drones, cruise missiles and dozens of surface-to-surface missiles at Israel overnight. It is yet unclear which types of ballistic missiles Iran fired, but prior information and footage of boosters – missile parts that fell to the ground as part of the missile’s flight path – provide clues about the nature of the attack that the Iranians tried to launch on Israeli soil.
The parts appear to belong to some variant of Qiam missile, that are powered by liquid fuel and equipped with a booster that detaches during flight. The two early models of the Qiam missile are limited to a range of up to 800 kilometers (about 500 miles), which means that they cannot reach Israel directly from Iran. Inbar noted that advanced models of the missile have been adapted to achieve greater range.
Tal Inbar, an expert on missiles and drones and a senior research fellow at the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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