HAJ QASEM | Medium-Range Ballistic Missile

HAJ QASEM | Medium-Range Ballistic Missile

حاج قاسم | Named after Qasem Soleimani

Major General Qasem Soleimani commanded the IRGC Quds Force for more than two decades. He was killed in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020. Iran later named a ballistic missile in his honor.

The Haj Qasem missile reflects Iran’s ongoing shift away from liquid-fueled Scud-derived systems toward solid-fuel precision missiles designed to be stored, moved, and launched with minimal warning.

Key specs:

️Range: 1,400 km (covers all of Israel, U.S. bases across the Gulf, and reaches into southeastern Europe)

️Warhead: 500 kg HE

️Fuel: Solid propellant

️CEP: Estimated under 100 m, precision-class

️Launch platform: Road-mobile TEL

At 1,400 km with solid fuel, the missile can be stored underground, deployed quickly, and launched before adversary ISR systems complete a targeting cycle. This rapid-launch capability is the central advantage of Iran’s transition to solid-fuel missile technology, sharply reducing the time between detection and launch.

Vulnerability:

The main limitation is the 500 kg unitary HE warhead, which is smaller than the payload carried by some earlier Iranian medium-range missiles.

Combat use:

The missile was unveiled in August 2020, months after Soleimani’s assassination. There is no confirmed operational use in combat. However, it is assessed to be part of Iran’s active missile inventory and was likely among the systems prepared during the regional escalation cycles of 2024.

Its 1,400 km range makes it one of Iran’s primary options for strikes on Israel without relying on longer-range missile systems.

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