The Qaem (or Ghaem; ) refers to two completely separate Iranian weapons: an

air-to-ground Air-to-ground weaponry is aircraft ordnance used by combat aircraft to attack ground targets. The weapons include bombs, machine guns, autocannons, air-to-surface missiles, rockets, air-launched cruise missiles and grenade launchers. See also ...

glide bomb A glide bomb or stand-off bomb is a standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces. This allows it to be released at a distance from the target r ...

and a surface-to-air missile. These two weapons are similarly sized and identically named, and are both developed from the

Toophan The Toophan ( fa, طوفان "typhoon", rarely Toofan) is an Iranian SACLOS anti-tank guided missile reverse-engineered from the American BGM-71 TOW missile. The Toophan 1, an unlicensed copy of the BGM-71A TOW missile, began mass production in ...

missile, but are separate weapon systems.

Qaem surface to air missile

This is an Iranian

SACLOS Semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) is a method of missile command guidance. In SACLOS, the operator has to continually point a sighting device at the target while the missile is in flight. Electronics in the sighting device and/or th ...

beam-riding Beam-riding, also known as Line-Of-Sight Beam Riding (LOSBR) or beam guidance, is a technique of directing a missile to its target by means of radar or a laser beam. The name refers to the way the missile flies down the guidance beam, which is ai ...

SHORAD surface-to-air missile. With a range of six kilometers and a maximum altitude of two kilometers, the Qaem is intended for use against

UAV An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controlle ...

s and low flying or stationary helicopters. The Qaem is a development of the

missile, itself an unlicensed copy of the American

BGM-71 TOW The BGM-71 TOW ("Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided") is an American anti-tank missile. TOW replaced much smaller missiles like the SS.10 and ENTAC, offering roughly twice the effective range, a more powerful warhead, and a greatly ...

missile, and entered mass production in 2010. The Qaem anti-aircraft missile uses a laser guidance system. Iran also produces a variant, the Qaem-M, which adds a proximity fuse. * Ghaem-114 toophan missile comparable of AGM-114

Qaem air to ground bomb

A completely unrelated Iranian munition, but also named "Qaem," is carried by Qods Mohajer-6 UAVs and

Hamaseh The HESA Hamaseh ( fa, حماسه, Ḥamāseh, lit=Epic) is an Iranian tactical and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with high flight endurance built by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA). The Hamaseh was unveiled ...

UAVs. The Qaem is available in four variants: the Qaem 1, with a suspected infrared seeker; a variant simply named Qaem, with suspected laser guidance; a larger variant named Qaem-5, with TV guidance; and an even larger variant named Qaem-9, also with TV guidance. The Qaem A2G glide bomb is related to the

Sadid-345 The Sadid-345, also known simply as the Sadid guided bomb is an Iranian precision-guided glide bomb with a fragmentation warhead. The Sadid-345 is meant for use on UCAVs. Its main launch platform is the Shahed 129. Specifications The bomb w ...

glide bomb, but has different wings and size.

References

Guided missiles of Iran Surface-to-air missiles of Iran Post–Cold War weapons of Iran Military equipment introduced in the 2010s {{missile-stub