Iran presents its first hypersonic ballistic missile

[Eldorado]

Iran presented what officials described as its first domestically-made hypersonic ballistic missile on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported, an announcement likely to heighten Western concerns about Tehran's missile capabilities.

Iranian state media published pictures of the missile named Fattah at a ceremony attended by President Ebrahim Rahisi and commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps.

"The precision-guided Fattah hypersonic missile has a range of 1,400 km and it is capable of penetrating all defence shields," Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards' aerospace force, was quoted as saying by Iranian state media.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/iran-presents-its-first-hypersonic-ballistic-missile-state-media-reports/ar-AA1cbv4F?

[Piney]

3 hours ago, Eldorado said:

 

"The precision-guided Fattah hypersonic missile has a range of 1,400 km and it is capable of penetrating all defence shields," 

Except ones designed by the British or Americans....

[+and-then]

Yet our dear senile leader is still trying to make another "deal" with them on nukes.  Rahisi is just mocking him.  As for the hypersonic, if Iran fields such a weapon and mounts a nuke warhead on it, the likelihood is that the ME will see a nuclear exchange at some point.  With all of the ordinance that flies at Israel on a regular basis, it would be impossible to just accept that someday, a single one of them could be the end of the country.

[DarkHunter]

I'm wondering if the Iranian leadership realizes most ballistic missiles are already hypersonic.  From articles the warhead is able to maneuver but warheads that can maneuver also arent new and have been around for decades.

Seems Iran hasnt really made anything particularly new in terms of capability.

[+and-then]

Hypersonic tends to mean in excess of 7K miles per hour.  The real selling point is supposed to be that no anti-air technology can hit an incoming warhead at that speed but I recently heard a former military pundit saying that these weapons, especially the ones used to hit moving targets, have to slow down to acquire the target otherwise the "ball of plasma" that is created at the tip of the missile makes tracking impossible.  

[Piney]

16 hours ago, and-then said:

Hypersonic tends to mean in excess of 7K miles per hour.  The real selling point is supposed to be that no anti-air technology can hit an incoming warhead at that speed but I recently heard a former military pundit saying that these weapons, especially the ones used to hit moving targets, have to slow down to acquire the target otherwise the "ball of plasma" that is created at the tip of the missile makes tracking impossible.  

And Ukraine has shown Patriots can take them out because of it.