THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) revealed its newest achievement to the world – no other than the Fattah-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.
The upgraded weapons system was unveiled during the visit of Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a recent exhibition of new weapons in Tehran.
Iran claimed that the enhanced “Fattah 2” missile can operate at high speeds, evade defense systems, and even defeat Israeli air defenses like the state-of-the-art “Iron Dome.”
Hypersonic missiles are weapons that can fly at speeds of at least Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
Fattah, which means “conqueror” in Persian, has an earlier version unveiled in June which Iran claimed at the time was capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound.