Iran claims a new ballistic missile can travel at hypersonic speeds

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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.

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