Al-Tammuz

The Al-Tammuz missile was an Iraqi project to design a SSM based on scud technology that could deliver a payload of at least 1000 kg to a distance of 1200 km.[1][3] The missile was a potential delivery system that could have helped Iraq to deliver nuclear payloads.[1][3]

Al-Tammuz
Typesurface-to-surface missile[1]
Place of originIraq[1][2][3][4]
Specifications
Diameter1.25 m[1][3]
EngineSecond stage of Al-Abid's engine[1][3]
Payload capacity>1000 kg[1][3]
Propellantliquid propelled[2][4]
Operational
range
1,200[1][3]-2000[1][2][3][4] km
References

History

Iraq had been planning to produce a liquid propelled surface-to-surface missile having a range of 1200-2000 km based on current scud technology.[1][3] The Iraqis had started Project 144 for the production and modification of missile systems and designated it to the Al Qaya state establishment.[1][3] The Iraqis also assigned project 1729 to Nassr State Enterprise, Research and Development Center, Taji-Baghdad.[1][3] The Iraqis also started Project 1728 for indigenous scud engine development and production.[1][3] Practical work on this missile however would not start until April 1989, according to Iraqi suggestions the nuclear capable version would not have been ready by 1993, two years after the first Iraqi nuclear weapon was to be produced.[1][3] The Al-Tammuz missile program received a lot of help from foreign expertise especially from Brazilian scientist Major General Hugo de Oliveira Piva.[4]

Characteristics

The missile was to be liquid propelled having a range of 1200-2000 km, a payload capacity of at least one ton and a range of 1200 to 2000 km.[1][3] The engine of this surface-to-surface missile was to be based on the Second stage of Al-Abid LV[1][3] Note that some sources also designate the al-Abid LV as Tammuz-2.[2][4]

See also

References
  1. "Project 144/Project 1728". Federation of American Scientists. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017.
  2. "Missiles-Iraq Special Weapons". Federation of American Scientists. Archived from the original on 4 November 2010.
  3. "Project 144/Project 1728". Global Security. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015.
  4. "Missiles-Iraq Special Weapons". Global Security. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019.
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