Pakistani Missiles

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:

The short range Hatf-1 and Hatf-2, which are apparently of Pakistani design and construction, were developed by the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO). These missiles seem to have proven a disappointment, due probably in no small measure to their modest range, and do not appear to have entered operational service.
The Shaheen series of solid-propellant missiles are imports from China by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), which is also responsible for Pakistan's plutonium bomb program. The Chinese M-11 missile was obtained from China in the early 1990s, and tested with considerable publicity in mid-1999. The longer range Shaheen-I and Shaheen-II appear to correspond to the Chinese M-9 and DF-15, respectively, though there is presently no solid evidence that Pakistan has obtained either missile.
More recently, the A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories, which is also responsible for Pakistan's uranium bomb program, has imported and tested the North Korean Nodong missile under the name Ghauri. Imports of the longer range Taepodong missiles may also be under consideration.

Diverse public pronouncements by various Pakistani officials have tended to obscure rather than clarify the present status of Pakistan's missile programs. The confusion is greatly magnified by the diversity of nomenclature, as the number of missile names evidently greatly exceeds the number of actual missile types.

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				some
Ghauri	Hatf-5	DPRK ND-1	1,350-1,500	700 kg	06 Apr 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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