Fatah-4 Missile

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Pakistan recently announced the successful test of its new long-range cruise missile, Fatah-IV.

About Fatah-4 Missile

• It is Pakistan’s indigenously developed long-range cruise missile.
• It has a range of 750 kilometers (470 miles) and is equipped with advanced avionics and modern navigation systems.
• It can reach speeds of Mach 0.7 (865 kmph) during flight.
• Weighing around 1,530 kilos, the missile is around 7.5 metres in length.
• The missile can be fired from transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) vehicles. 
• It uses solid-propellant propulsion, which allows it to be readied for launch and fired quickly.
• It can carry a warhead weighing around 330 kilos. It is made to carry conventional munitions and not nuclear warheads.
• The missile is guided by a navigation suite comprising global positioning system (GPS) and an inertial navigating system (INS).
• It is said to use electronic countermeasures and AI to lock on to targets in difficult environments. 
• The most significant feature of the Fatah-4 missile is its circular error probability (CEP). 
  • The Fatah-4 can hit its target with an error of just 4 meters, which is considered very low for Pakistani missiles.
• It is capable of evading enemy air defences through terrain-hugging flight.

Source: N18

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