In November, the IRGC warned that a new hypersonic missile it was developing could hit Israel within 400 seconds.
JERUSALEM POST STAFFJUNE 6, 2023 09:25JUNE 6, 2023 09:47
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled the “Fattah,” the regime’s first hypersonic missile, on Tuesday morning, Iranian state media announced.
The unveiling ceremony was attended by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other high-ranking officials.
According to Iranian media, the Fattah hypersonic missile has a range of 1,400 kilometers and hits speeds of Mach 13-15. The reports claimed that the missile is able to bypass and destroy air defense systems.
The Fattah features a moveable secondary nozzle and uses solid propellants, allowing it to reach high speeds and “perform various maneuvers inside and outside the earth’s atmosphere,” according to the Iranian Fars News Agency.
Iran claims the missile could hit Israel in 400 seconds
In November, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, claimed that Iran had developed a new hypersonic missile that could reach Israel in 400 seconds.
At the time, Iran’s Sobh-e-Sadegh newspaper published a threat in Hebrew on its front page, reading “400 seconds: General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, said that Iran has obtained technology for hypersonic missiles.”
Tzvi Joffre contributed to this report.
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