Kheibar Shekan
Iran's solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile — quick to launch, road-mobile, and tipped with a maneuvering warhead that jinks in its final seconds to dodge interceptors. It flew in Iran's 2024 barrages on Israel, and its booster later seeded the Fattah-1.
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Iran's solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile — fast to launch, road-mobile, and tipped with a maneuvering re-entry vehicle designed to jink in its final seconds and defeat missile defenses. It flew in Iran's 2024 barrages on Israel, and its booster later seeded the Fattah-1. As with all Iranian missiles, the headline numbers are state claims — read them with care.
Overview
The Kheibar Shekan (خیبرشکن, "Kheibar/Fortress-buster") is an Iranian solid-propellant medium-range ballistic missile fielded by the IRGC Aerospace Force, unveiled on 9 February 2022. Iran markets it as a "third-generation" missile with a claimed ~1,450 km range, a ~550 kg high-explosive warhead, and — its signature feature — a separating, tri-conic maneuverable re-entry vehicle (MaRV) that alters course in the terminal phase to evade interceptors. Solid fuel makes it quick to ready and road-mobile, fired from a commercial-truck transporter-erector-launcher with little preparation. For BattlePolicy it sits in the under-covered Iran watch and matters as a building block of Iran's precision-strike arsenal — its booster was the basis for the Fattah-1. The essential caveat: every performance figure here is an IRGC/state-media claim and remains unverified, and Israeli/US layered defenses intercepted the large majority of Iranian ballistic rounds across 2024-2026.
Development
Iran unveiled the Kheibar Shekan on 9 February 2022, presenting it as a faster-to-launch, longer-ranged solid-fuel complement to its older liquid-fuel missiles. Its design lineage matters in two directions: it built on Iran's maturing solid-propellant work, and its booster in turn seeded the Fattah-1, Iran's claimed "hypersonic" missile — so the Kheibar Shekan is the parent, not the offspring. An important naming caution: do not confuse it with the Khorramshahr-4 "Kheibar," a separate liquid-fuel heavy MRBM (a distinct entry); "Kheibar" used alone usually means the Khorramshahr-4.
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