Updated: April 2006

Sources:

1. This list summarizes information available from public sources. Data were drawn primarily from: "Missile and Space Launch Capabilities of Selected Countries," The Nonproliferation Review, forthcoming 1998. Duncan Lennox, ed., Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems Issue 24, 5/97. Centre for Defence and International Security Studies, "Master Tables," CDISS website, http://www.cdiss.org. "Missile Proliferation Update," Federation of American Scientists website, http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/index.html; Data were also drawn from articles in: Air & Cosmos/Aviation International, Arms Control Reporter, Arms Control Today, Defense News, Ha'aretz, International Herald Tribune, Flight International, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Intelligence Review, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Nuclear News, Policy Watch, Report on Middle East Affairs, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Voprosy bezaposnosti, Washington Times, Weekly Defense Monitor, and Yedi'ot Aharonot. Additional sources consulted: Ian O. Lesser and Ashley J. Tellis, Strategic Exposure: Proliferation Around the Mediterranean (Santa Monica: RAND, 1996). Zeev Eytan, "Regional Military Forces," The Middle East Military Balance, 1993-94 (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1994). Bates Gill, Silkworms and Summitry; Chinese Arms Exports to Iran and US-China Relations (Asia and Pacific Rim Institute of the American Jewish Committee, 1998). Dilip Hiro, The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict (London: Grafton Books, 1989). Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Organization (SIBAT), Israel's Defense Sales Directory, 1997/98 (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1997). Ed Blanche, "Syria 'Boosts Accuracy' of Scud-D," Jane's Missiles and Rockets, 1/1/06. Joshua Williams, "World Missile Chart," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website, 3/1/05, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/ballisticmissilechart.cfm. Joshua Williams, "World Missile Chart," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 3/1/05.
2. LK-1 and LK-2 are upgrades of the Shavit SLV. For more information, see "Shavit," Israel Aircraft Industries website, viewed April 2006, http://www.iai.co.il/default.aspx?docID=15689&FolderID=14471&lang=en.
3. Ibid.
4. Both the range and payload of Turkey's Project J are unknown. For more information, see "Turkey," Middle East Military Balance (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 5/14/05), p.9, http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/balance/turkey.pdf.