Fattah-2

Iran's hypersonic-glide evolution of the Fattah-1 — a missile pairing a solid-fuel booster with a maneuvering, liquid-fuel hypersonic glide vehicle, which Tehran claims reaches Mach 15 over roughly 1,500 km to defeat layered missile defenses. Highly topical after the Israel–Iran exchanges, though its real-world performance is heavily disputed.

Overview

The Fattah-2 (فتاح-۲, "Conqueror-2") is an Iranian hypersonic missile project unveiled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in November 2023 as a successor to the Fattah-1. Where the Fattah-1 used a maneuvering re-entry vehicle, the Fattah-2 is presented as carrying a true hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) on top of a ballistic booster, for higher speed and a less predictable, harder-to-intercept flight path. Iran markets it as a weapon that can penetrate advanced air and missile defenses such as Israel's Arrow and the US Patriot/THAAD. Western analysts have been consistently skeptical — both of the system's maturity and of Iran's performance claims — and independent verification of its capabilities, and of Iranian assertions that it has been used in combat, is limited.

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