Iran has stated it has obtained the technology to create a supersonic cruise missile. Currently, it is allegedly in the testing stage.
This was reported by the Iranian news agency Tasnim, Reuters reports.
"This missile, which is a new generation of Iranian-made cruise missiles, is currently being tested and will be a new milestone in Iranʼs defense power," Iranian media noted.
A hypersonic weapon is a weapon capable of reaching speeds of over Mach 5, i.e. over 6 000 kmph. In Iran, they say that the speed of their rocket is 15 times faster than the speed of sound.
The concept of hypersonic weapons currently underlies the weapons of the future. Theoretically, these are missiles that cannot be shot down by any existing air and missile defense system in the world. China and the US are actively developing a hypersonic weapon, and Russia claimed to have created one in 2018, the Kinzhal missile. But during the war in Ukraine, it turned out that this is not a hypersonic, but an aeroballistic missile, and it cannot maintain supersonic speed during the entire flight. Therefore, after the appearance of modern Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems in Ukraine, Kinzhal missiles began to be shot down over Kyiv.