Iran claims a new ballistic missile can travel at hypersonic speeds

Iran has unveiled the Fattah-2, a new Iranian-produced ballistic missile which it claims can travel at hypersonic speeds.

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00:00 Iran has unveiled a new Iranian produced ballistic missile which it claims can travel at hypersonic

00:06 speeds. Its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei toured the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace

00:12 Force Centre on Sunday where the Fatah-2 missile was revealed to the public.

00:18 Hypersonic weapons can fly at five or more times the speed of sound and can have a windy

00:22 trajectory. That means missile defence systems such as Israel's Iron Dome would be less likely

00:28 to shoot them down.