Raad-500

Raad-500 missile is an Iranian SRBM/Tactical ballistic missile which is equipped with a progressive composite engine that is dubbed as "Zohair ". Raad-500 means "Thunder 500", and it was designed by halving the weight of the previous Iranian missile, and its final range is 500 kilometers.
The Raad-500, is significantly shorter than its predecessor yet can reportedly reach 500 km. Its warhead is smaller but still powerful, and designed to separate in the early midcourse phase, making it more difficult to detect, track, and intercept than unibody missiles like the Fateh-110, or those with warheads that separate in the terminal phase.

Motor

This ballistic missile possesses an solid rocket motor made of carbon fiber composites, it makes the motor casing able to bear pressures up to one hundred bars.

Unveiling

Raad-500 missile was unveiled on 9 February 2020 in Tehran by the attendance of IRGC's Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami, and likewise Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.