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Iran has unveiled its first domestically produced hypersonic ballistic missile, the official Irna news agency reported. The announcement could heighten Western concerns about Tehran's missile capabilities. Facts and insights

Iran also unveils what it claims is its first domestically-made hypersonic missile.

The Guardians of the Islamic Revolution of Iran (pasdaran) presented in Tehran the hypersonic missile Fattah, or "The Conqueror", produced in the Islamic Republic. The ceremony was attended by the president of the country, Ebrahim Raisi. As reported by the Irna news agency, the Fattah can travel at very high speeds and has a range of 1,400 kilometres.

Also present at the ceremony was Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi who said: "No threat can put aside Iran's missile and defense industry."

Unlike ballistic missiles, which fly at hypersonic speeds but travel along a set trajectory, hypersonic weapons are highly maneuverable despite flying at Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Only four other countries claim to have them in their arsenals: China , Russia, the United States and North Korea. The Ukrainian Air Force said in May that it had shot down a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile with US Patriot air defenses.

Last year, the Islamic Republic said it had built a hypersonic ballistic missile capable of maneuvering in and out of the atmosphere. “It can bypass the most advanced anti-ballistic missile systems of the United States and the Zionist regime, including Israel's Iron Dome,” Iranian state TV said.

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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IRANIAN HYPERSONIC MISSILE ACCORDING TO TEHRAN

“The precision-guided Fattah hypersonic missile has a range of 1,400km and is capable of penetrating all defense shields,” Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards aerospace force, told Iranian state media.

According to Iranian officials, Fatah is capable of overcoming any missile shield system and destroying it. It has great maneuverability as well as the ability to pass through radar systems. Furthermore, they claim, Fattah's top speed has reached Mach 14 (15,000 km/h) levels.

THE COMMENT OF THE ANALYST

Despite opposition from the United States and Europe, the Islamic Republic has said it will further develop its missile defense program. However, Western military analysts say Iran sometimes exaggerates its missile capabilities, Reuters reports.

"Iran has in the past been accused of inflating its claims about missile technology," adds the Guardian . The reports come just as Israel has expressed growing alarm that the West was considering renewed negotiations with Tehran to revive the stalled nuclear deal that controls Iran's civilian nuclear program.

In 2018 then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, with Tehran with six major powers. Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington to relaunch the nuclear deal have stalled since last September.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/tutto-sul-primo-missile-ipersonico-dellindia/ on Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:12:10 +0000.