Misagh-1

Iranian portable surface-to-air missile

Maximum speed 700 m/s (Mach 2.6)

Guidance
system

Passive infrared homing

Launch
platform

Man portable

The Misagh-1 (also Mithaq-1^[1]) is an Iranian man-portable surface-to-air missile. It was developed by the Shahid Kazemi Industrial Complex in Tehran.^[2]

The MANPADS was supplemented by the newer Misagh-2 missile system.

History

Iran began production of the Misagh-1 in May 1993.^[3]

The Misagh-1 was reported to be found in anti-government insurgent arms caches in Iraq.^[4] The US military has suggestions that the MANPADs found were smuggled with Iranian assistance.^[4]

Design

The Misagh-1 is a variant or reverse-engineered clone of the Chinese QW-1 Vanguard.^[2]^[5]

Identification

Visually, the Misagh-1 is virtually indistinguishable from the QW-1 it is cloned from and Pakistan's Anza missile.^[6] It can be distinguished from the QW-1M/Misagh-2 and the QW-18/Misagh-3 by the Misagh-1's straight battery unit.

Operators

Iran: Used by the Iranian military.^[7]^[8]
Syria: Supplied to the Syrian Army.^[9]

Non-State Actors

Hezbollah^[1]
Anti-government insurgents in Iraq^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Iran answers Hizbullah call for SAM systems". www.janes.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2006. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Misagh-1 man portable air defence missile system technical data sheet specifications pictures | Iran Iranian army missile systems vehicles UK | Iran Iranian army military equipment armoured UK". 5 January 2012.
^ https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/iran_missile.pdf
^ ^a ^b ^c https://media.nti.org/pdfs/iraq_missile.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Missiles and Rockets of Hezbollah".
^ "A New MANPADS Variant Appears in Syria". 18 March 2016.
^ https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/publication/141007_Iran_Rocket_Missile_forces.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/YB07%20623%2014A.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "What Iran might sell now that the UN arms embargo expired". 21 October 2020.