About Fattah 2 Missile
- Fattah, which means conqueror in Farsi, is a hypersonic ballistic missile.
- It was developed by Iran. It is a new version of its first domestically made hypersonic ballistic missile named ‘Fattah’.
Fattah 2 Missile Features
- It is equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) warhead that can manoeuvre and glide at hypersonic speed.
- It uses a liquid-fuel rocket propellant. The liquid fuel engine has the ability to adjust the thrust force.
- The precision-guided two-stage missile can hit targets within a range of 1500 kilometres with a velocity of Mach 15 (fifteen times the speed of sound, i.e 18522 km/hr).
- Measuring 12 meters in length, it can carry 200 kilograms of explosives.
- It is capable of significant trajectory changes during flight to evade defence systems.
- While the missile can accelerate outside the Earth’s atmosphere, its aerodynamic control surfaces allow for steering within the atmosphere.
Source: IT
Last updated on Sep, 2026
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