What Is Sejjil? Iran Fires Ultra-Heavy, Long-Range Ballistic Missile at Israel: 5 Things to Know

What is the Sejjil missile that Iran launched in its latest attack on Israel?

The Sejjil is an indigenously designed and developed two-stage, solid-propellant ballistic missile. It is around 18 metres long and 1.25 metres wide. Weighing 23,600 kilos, it carries a 700 kilo warhead and has a range of around 2,000 kilometres, which means it can hit any target in West Asia

What is Sejjil? Iran fires ultra-heavy, long-range ballistic missile at Israel: 5 things to know

The Sejjil missile has an estimated range of around 2,000 km and a payload capacity of about 700 kg.

Iran uses ultra-heavy Sejjil missile for 1st time against Israel

Tehran: Amid escalating tensions, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed that it used ultra-heavy, long-range Sejjil missile for the first time in attacks on Israel. The IRGC carried out the 12th wave of retaliatory missile strikes against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III on Wednesday night, June 18, the Iran’s Embassy in India and Tasnim news agency reported. Also ReadIntervention will bring irrepa…

Op. True Promise III: Iran unleashes wave of new-gen missiles at Zionist entity

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Wave 12 of Op. True Promise 3 launched, Sejjil deployed in first: IRGC

Iran’s IRGC has launched its 12th wave of Operation True Promise 3 against "Israel", deploying Sejjil missiles.