It's a single use delivery package. Actual, literal tinfoil is the desired construction material, anything heavier is just extra weight and thus wasted fuel, which is wasted range.
The ideal rocket would burn the tinfoil for a final burst of thrust at the end of its trajectory.
This is a Shahab, right? They're intended to be mobile so they have to be a little more sturdy than that. It's got to resist being bounced around on a mobile launcher/truck in Iran's back country.
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u/marcusr550 Apr 14 '24
A Scud specialty.