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Fattah-2

Fattah-2:

Iran recently fired more than 180 ballistic missiles, including its hypersonic medium-range Fattah-2, in a major offensive aimed at overwhelming Israel’s air defences.

  • Fattah-2 means conqueror in Farsi, is a hypersonic ballistic missile.
  • It was developed by Iran. It is a new version of its first domestically made hypersonic ballistic missile named ‘Fattah’.
  • It is equipped with a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV) warhead that can manoeuvre and glide at hypersonic speed.
  • It uses a liquid-fuel rocket propellant.
  • The liquid fuel engine can adjust the thrust force.
  • The precision-guided two-stage missile can hit targets within a range of 1500 kilometres with a velocity of Mach 15 (fifteen times the speed of sound, i.e 18522 km/hr).
  • Measuring 12 meters in length, it can carry 200 kilograms of explosives.
  • It is capable of significant trajectory changes during flight to evade defence systems.
  • While the missile can accelerate outside the Earth’s atmosphere, its aerodynamic control surfaces allow for steering within the atmosphere.