Iran is armed with the largest number of ballistic missiles in the region according to the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, so what exactly are their capabilities?

Fabian Hinz, a Berlin-based expert on Iran’s missile arsenal with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that based on the locations of videos of launches posted on social media and the ranges to Israel, he assessed that Iran fired a combination of solid- and liquid-fuelled missiles.

The former category of missile, which is more advanced, is fired from angled mobile launchers and the latter from vertical launchers, he said.

At least 180 missiles were fired at Israel during the attack, with most intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, according to the Israeli military.

Hinz said three solid-propellent missiles fired on Tuesday (local time) could be the ‘Haj Qasem’, ‘Kheibar Shekan’ and ‘Fattah 1’, while liquid propellant missiles reported as being launched from Isfahan might potentially be the ‘Emad’, ‘Badr’ and ‘Khorramshahr’.

Iran for the first time used hypersonic Fattah-1 missiles, with a range of about 1400 kilometres, in the attack.

Reuters