Expert Ali Hamia: Iron has used Fattah 2 cruise missiles against Israel
Iran is using new missiles invulnerable to its air defence forces against Israel, Lebanese military strategy expert Ali Hamia told reporters, commenting on a report of Iran launching drones and cruise missiles at Israel in response to an attack on its consulate in Damascus.
“Iran has launched hundreds of Shahed drones and Fattah 2 hypersonic cruise missiles at Israel, which the Israeli Iron Dome air defence system is unable to counter,” the expert said.
In his opinion, Israel will not be able to respond to attacks from several sides at once – from Iran itself, from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Last November, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that the air and space forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, the elite units of Iran’s Armed Forces) unveiled a new Fattah 2 cruise missile with a hypersonic guidance vehicle (HGV). While the first-generation cruise missiles were equipped with simple rocket engines to provide initial acceleration as well as turbojet engines for propulsion control, the new-generation missiles such as the Fattah 2 are already equipped with a direct-flow air-jet engine.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (elite branches of the Armed Forces) said on Sunday night that it was striking Israeli territory in response to the destruction by Israeli aircraft of the Iranian consulate in Syria in early April. The attack, according to various reports, involves several dozen to hundreds of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, including Shahed kamikaze drones.
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