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Pakistan

The strategic competition with India has spurred Pakistani efforts to acquire ballistic missiles, which it claims to have done without assistance. Pakistan's missile industry includes a large solid rocket motor production complex and a ballistic missile test facility. Chinese and more recently North Korea assistance has sustained these efforts. Pakistan's missile effort evidently consists of three components:

Designation Foreign
derivation
Range (km) Payload (kg) First Launch Operational Inventory Comments
Hatf-1 60-100 500 Jan 1989 testing some?
Hatf-2 Shadoz 280 500 Jan 1989 cancelled none
Shaheen Hatf-3 ? PRC M-11 300 500 15 April 1999 1995? ~34-80?
Shaheen-I Hatf-4 ? PRC M-9 800 500
Shaheen-II Hatf-6 PRC M-18 2,000 09 March 2004 some
Ghauri Hatf-5 DPRK ND-1 1,350-1,500 700 kg 06 April 1998 1998? some Also flown by North Korea (No-dong) and Iran (Shehab-3).
Ghauri-III Abdali DPRK TD-1 ?? 2,500
Tipu DPRK TD-2 ?? 4,000
Ghaznavi ?,000

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