How significant is Iran's unveiling of latest hypersonic cruising missile? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Adam Lucente

Adam Lucente

Nov 20, 2023

A truck carries an Iranian Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 22, 2023. — A truck carries an Iranian Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 22, 2023. — -/AFP via Getty Images

Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveil a hypersonic missile capable of speeds of up to 15 times the speed of sound that President Ebrahim Raisi says will boost Iran's "power of deterrence"

Iran unveils hypersonic missile hailing deterrent boost

Agence France-Presse

Iran's "Fattah" missile.

Iran claims to have produced key engine for supersonic missile tech

A correspondent in Tehran

A correspondent in Tehran

In Tehran, reporting on politics

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Iran claims to develop technology for supersonic cruise missile

Adam Lucente

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change

Russian army Mi-24 helicopters fly above a warship at the Turali range on the Caspian Sea coast in the Republic of Dagestan in Southern Russia on September 23, 2020 during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills gathering China, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar troops, along with ex-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. - Up to 250 tanks and around 450 infantry combat vehicles and armoured personnel carriers will take part in the September 21 to 26 land and naval exercises that will involve 80,000 people including

Iran unveils new Deylaman warship capable of launching cruise missiles

Beatrice Farhat

Beatrice Farhat

In Beirut, reporting on regional news, culture, conflict