What is Fattah-2?

About Fattah-2:

• 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’.
• 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 can 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.