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.