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Pakistan's missile Programmes
The strategic competition with India has spurred Pakistani efforts to acquire
ballistic missiles. Pakistan's
missile industry includes a large solid rocket motor production complex and a
ballistic missile test facility. Pakistan's missile effort evidently
consists of three components:
- The short range Hatf-1 and Hatf-2, which are apparently of Pakistani
design and construction, were developed by the Space and Upper Atmosphere
Research Commission (SUPARCO).
- The Shaheen series of solid-propellant missiles developed by
the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), which is also responsible for
Pakistan's plutonium bomb program.
- More recently, the A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories, which is also
responsible for Pakistan's uranium bomb program, has tested the
missile name Ghauri.
| Designation |
Range |
Payload |
First Launch |
| Hatf-1 |
60-100 km |
500 kg |
Jan 1989 |
| Hatf-2 |
280 km |
500 kg |
Jan 1989 |
| Shaheen |
300 km |
500 kg |
15 April 1999 |
| Shaheen-I |
800 km |
500 kg |
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| Shaheen-II |
2,000 km |
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| Ghauri |
1,500 km |
700 kg |
06 Apr 1998 |
| Ghauri-III |
2,500 km |
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| Tipu |
4,000 km |
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| Ghaznavi |
?,000 km |
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