{"id":17537,"date":"2025-06-18T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17537"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:36:58","slug":"fattah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fattah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Fattah 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Fattah 2 Missile<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fattah, which means conqueror in Farsi, is a <strong>hypersonic <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ballistic-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ballistic missile<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a><\/strong>. It is a new version of its first domestically made hypersonic ballistic missile named \u2018Fattah\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Fattah 2 Missile Features<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV)<\/strong> warhead that <strong>can manoeuvre and glide at hypersonic speed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It uses a liquid-fuel rocket propellant. The <strong>liquid fuel engine<\/strong> has the <strong>ability to adjust the thrust force.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The precision-guided two-stage missile can hit targets within a <strong>range of 1500 kilometres<\/strong> with a <strong>velocity of Mach 15 <\/strong>(fifteen times the speed of sound, i.e 18522 km\/hr).<\/li>\n<li>Measuring 12 meters in length, it can carry 200 kilograms of explosives.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of <strong>significant trajectory changes during flight<\/strong> to evade defence systems.<\/li>\n<li>While the missile can accelerate outside the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, its aerodynamic control surfaces allow for steering within the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/iran-fattah-2-hypersonic-missile-features-all-you-need-to-know-israel-air-defence-attack-2609892-2024-10-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fattah, meaning &#8220;conqueror&#8221; in Farsi, is Iran\u2019s advanced hypersonic ballistic missile, capable of high-speed precision strikes and evading modern air defenses. Read more about Fattah 2 Missile, Features, Range, Speed, Payload, Latest News here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":50840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[910,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-17537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-fattah-2","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}