Longest-Range Cruise Missiles Deployed in the Middle East
Updated: April 2006
This chart includes only the longest-range cruise missile deployed by
Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey
and Yemen. The United States deploys the RGM-109C Tomahawk cruise missile on
ships in the waters of the Middle East region, but the Tomahawk's 1,700km range
and 454kg payload exceed the parameters of this chart.
Sources:
This chart summarizes information available from public sources. Data were
drawn primarily from: David A. Fulghum, "Cruise Missile Threat Spurs Pentagon
Research," Aviation Week and Space Technology Review, 7/14/97, pp. 44-45.
Duncan Lennox, ed., Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems Issue 24, 5/97.
Centre for Defence and International Security Studies, "Master Tables," [Online]
http://www.cdiss.org.
Additional sources consulted: Aviation Week & Space Technology and The
Association for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems International, "1997-98
International Guide to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (New York: McGraw-Hill,
1997). Jane's Defence Weekly. Cape Times. Saturday Argus. South African
Press Agency (SAPA). IDR Dispatches. Foreign Defense Assistance and
Defense Export Organization (SIBAT), Israel's Defense Sales Directory,
1997/98 (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1997). Anthony H. Cordesman,
"Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: National Efforts, War Fighting
Capabilities, Weapons Lethality, Terrorism, and Arms Control Implications"
(Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2/98). Ian O.
Lesser and Ashely J. Tellis, Strategic Exposure: Proliferation around the
Mediterranean (Santa Monica: RAND, 1996) [Study prepared for the United
States Army]. 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). "Saudi Arabia," Middle East Military
Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 2/5/05), [Online]
http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/balance/saudia.pdf.
"Exocet AM.39 / MM.40," Federation of American Scientists, 1/3/99,
[Online] http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/exocet.htm.
"CSS-C-2-Silkworm/ HY-1 / SY-1 / CSS-N-1 Scrubbrush / FL-1 Flying
Dragon," Global Security.org, [Online] http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/hy-1.htm.
"Egypt," Middle East Military Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee
Center for Strategic Studies, 2/5/05). "Iran," Middle East
Military Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1/06).
"Syria," Middle East Military Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee
Center for Strategic Studies, 3/4/05). "AGM-65 Maverick,"
Federation of American Scientists, 1/3/99, [Online] http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-65.htm.
Raytheon, Missile Systems of the World, (AMI International, 1999), pp.
214, 218, 228. "Israel," Middle East Military Balance (Tel
Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 3/05).
Originally prepared by Michael Barletta and Erik Jorgensen, May 1998;
Updated by Sammy Salama and Alexis Zeiger, April 2006.
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. April 2006
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