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.
