Fattah-1

Iran's most advanced operational ballistic missile — a solid-propellant medium-range weapon with a powered maneuvering re-entry vehicle, marketed by Tehran as "hypersonic," and the centerpiece of its evolving effort to defeat regional missile defenses.

Overview

The Fattah-1 (Persian فتاح, "conqueror" or "the opener" — a name chosen personally by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei) is a solid-propellant medium-range ballistic missile with a powered maneuvering re-entry vehicle, fielded by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force. Iran unveiled the weapon in June 2023 and promoted it as its "first hypersonic missile" — a label independent analysts dispute as obscuring more than it illuminates. It is the first Iranian missile designed from the outset to maneuver both inside and outside the atmosphere, using a small solid rocket motor with thrust-vector control in the re-entry vehicle to evade terminal and — Tehran claims — midcourse missile defenses. Debris analysis by independent researchers confirmed its combat use against Israel in 2024, and Iranian state media asserted further Fattah-1 launches in the June 2025 and 2026 escalation cycles.

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