Iran claim to have drawn hypersonic missiles to Israel. The Iranian armed forces led “the eleventh wave of the proud Honest 3 operation using Fattah-1 missiles,” said the guards of the revolution on state television.
These hypersonic ballistic missiles of the intermediate range, capable of reaching between 16,000 and 18,000 kilometers per hour according to Tehran, had been officially revealed in 2023. Designed by the aerospace force of the guards of the revolution, these weapons can reach an objective located 1,400 kilometers and this at the speed prodigy of Mach 13 or Mach 15 (between 16,000 and 18,500 kilometers.
Here these are ballistic missiles and not a cruise, that is, they are not driven as the latter during their flight. Once popularly popular, within the high limits of the atmosphere, they submit to gravity to achieve their objective according to an elliptical trajectory.
In general, supersonic missiles can move at a higher speed than Mach 5, that is, five times the speed of sound, therefore, at least 6,000 kilometers per hour. These devices are designed to achieve a goal of several thousand kilometers in a few minutes, avoiding antimile devices. Its interception is almost impossible due to its speed, but also because they are maneuverable at a distance.
Call Fattah, which can be translated as a “winner”, the Iranian missile had to strengthen the “deterrent element” of Iran and bring “peace and stability to the countries of the region,” Tehran said in June 2023 during the presentation of this armament in the presence. of the late President Ebrahim Raïssi.
Today two main categories of hypersonic weapons are developed: hypersonic cruise missiles, which fly at low altitude in the atmosphere and hypersonic glider. The latter are thrown by a ballistic missile or by a space pitcher and make a large part of the flight outside the atmosphere.
Global career
These hypervélicas weapons are the object of a global career among the great military powers, including France. The United States is working on it, while Russia and China have taken a step in front of May, Donald Trump significantly accused Moscow, who claims to have used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, having “stolen” American technology. For its part, North Korea claims to have recently tried a new hypersonic missile.
But some experts doubt the statements mentioned by China, Russia or Iran about their hypersonic missiles. In any case, the career for hypersonic weapons presents adopting new strategies and new technologies to intercept them. Donald Trump launched the construction of an improved antimisile defense system, such as the “gold dome” Israeli, to protect the US territory from any air attack.
Source: BFM TV
