How dangerous is the iranian sajjil missile that claims to reach Tel Aviv in seven minutes?

How dangerous is the Iranian Sajjil missile that claims to reach Tel Aviv in seven minutes?

, ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Iran is a test of the combat capabilities of both countries as well as their weapons.

When Iran attacked Israel once again on Wednesday night, it also claimed for the first time that an Iranian Sajjil-2 missile was used in the attack.

However, Israel claims that the Israeli army thwarted the Sajjil missile attack and successfully stopped it with the help of its defense system.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have said that the attack late Wednesday night was carried out under ‘Operation Vaad Sadeq 3’ using the long-range Sajjil missile.

Describing the characteristics of the missile, the statement claimed that the Sajjil is one of Iran’s most powerful and accurate strategic weapons, capable of destroying key enemy targets.

Images of Iran using the Sajil-2 missile are also circulating on social media, and the debate over the Sajil missile has intensified after the Iranian attack.

The Sajil is a medium-range ballistic missile that is capable of hitting targets up to 2,000 kilometers away.

With this range, the missile can target the entire Middle East, including Israel, southeastern Europe, and parts of Central Asia from Iran.

If launched from the Iranian city of Natanz, it can reach the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in just seven minutes.

The Sajil missile is about 18 meters long and is powered by solid fuel. This gives it an advantage over missiles that use other types of fuel.

Due to the use of solid fuel, it can be prepared for launch quickly, has a better capacity to store explosives, and can be more effective during combat.

The missile can carry a warhead weighing about 700 kilograms and has a significant destructive capacity against its targets.

The first successful test of this missile was conducted in 2008 and in this test it covered a distance of 800 kilometers.

Its second test was conducted in May 2009, in which advanced technology and navigation systems were tested.

According to the American think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, ‘There may be several variants of the Sajil missile. In 2009, Iran tested a missile called the Sajil 2. An unconfirmed report says that the Sajil 3 could be even better. The Sajil 3 is a three-stage missile with a maximum range of four thousand kilometers and a weight of 38 thousand kilograms.

Iran has not publicly tested the Sajil missile since 2012, but after almost a decade, it was tested during a military exercise in 2021.

According to the US Peace Institute, Iran has the largest and most diverse stockpile of ballistic missiles in the Middle East. At the same time, Iran is the only country in the region that does not have nuclear weapons, but its ballistic missiles can reach a distance of 2,000 kilometers.

Ballistic technology was developed during World War II, but only a few countries in the world have the ability to make ballistic missiles themselves with this technology.

Iran has acquired this technology and produced ballistic missiles despite severe international sanctions over the past two decades. Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei said in a speech that the military and missile programs that the West is worried about were all developed during sanctions.

Iran currently produces more than 50 types of rockets, ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as military drones, some of which have been used in global conflicts such as the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Iran has claimed that its new generation of missiles is a generation of hypersonic weapons. Hypersonic refers to weapons that typically travel five to twenty-five times the speed of sound.

Iran first introduced the Fateh missile as a hypersonic missile in both ballistic and cruise categories.

The Fateh hypersonic missile has a range of 1,400 kilometers and the IRGC claims that it is capable of evading and destroying all missile defense systems.

he Fateh is a generation of solid-fuel missiles that reach speeds of 13 to 15 Mach before hitting their target. Mach 15 means five kilometers per second.