IANS | 20 Nov, 2023
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have unveiled a new
domestically-developed hypersonic ballistic missile, the media reported.
The
missile, dubbed Fattah-2 (Conqueror-2), was unveiled during a visit by
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to an exhibition of the achievements
of the IRGC's Aerospace Force in the Iranian capital Tehran, the report
said on Sunday.
According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency,
Fattah-2 is equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) warhead that
can maneuver and glide at hypersonic speed.
Iran had, in June, unveiled its first homegrown hypersonic missile named Fattah, Xinhua news agency reported.
Fattah,
a precision-guided two-stage missile, can hit targets within a range of
1,400 km, with a velocity of Mach 13 (about 16,000 km/h), according to
Tasnim.
It is equipped with a warhead that has a spherical engine
running on solid fuel and movable nozzles that allow the missile to
maneuver in all directions both in and out of the Earth's atmosphere,
Tasnim said.
