Published: 09:32, November 20, 2023 | Updated: 09:49, November 20, 2023
Iran unveils new homegrown hypersonic missile
By Xinhua

This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him (left), and Hossein Salami, head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (second, left) during a visit at the IRGC aerospace achievement exhibition in Tehran on Nov 19, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)

TEHRAN - Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps on Sunday unveiled a new domestically-developed hypersonic ballistic missile, the semi-official Tasnim news agency 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.

Fattah-2 is equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle warhead that can maneuver and glide at hypersonic speed, according to Tasnim 

According to Tasnim, Fattah-2 is equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle warhead that can maneuver and glide at hypersonic speed.

Iran had, in June, unveiled its first homegrown hypersonic missile named Fattah.

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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.

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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.