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From the Tasnim article:
Mersad-16:
Mersad-16:
- Uses Hafez and Najm-804 radars
- Uses quadratic missile launchers similar to those used by the Patriot system
- Equipped with the new Shalamcheh-2 missile
- Range of new missile not known but overall the Mersad-16 is more mobile than the older Mersad systems
- Shalamcheh-2 seems to be a finished version of the SM-1/Mehrab (improved SM-1)
- Guidance and navigation sytems used on the Shalamcheh-1 and other idigenous SAM systems might have been applied to the Shalamcheh-2
- Later in the article: Range of Shalamcheh-2 is 40 km
- Shalamcheh-1 missile weighs 647 kg, is 503 cm long, 357 mm in diameter, flies at Mach 2.7, reaches altitudes from 60 m to 18.000 m and has a range of 40 km
- During the Mohammad Rasoulallah (S) exercises in December 2014 the Mersad equipped with Shalamcheh-1 missiles proved to be effective against small UAVs