Some of the missiles reportedly struck “Israel’s” Nevatim Air Force base, which is one of “Israel’s” largest airports and is the main base for F-35 fighter jets.
Some of the missiles reportedly struck “Israel’s” Nevatim Air Force base, which is one of “Israel’s” largest airports and is the main base for F-35 fighter jets.
Iran has ballistic missiles, which are hypersonic in the terminal phase on re entry of the earth’s atmosphere. Most modern day ballistic missiles are hypersonic at this stage anyways, and so any country with ballistic missiles technically has “hypersonics”. However these are not true hypersonic cruise missiles or hypersonic glide vehicles. They cannot turn, generate lift or significantly change course at hypersonic speeds. Iran is still busy developing and testing these weapons, and have publicly unveiled prototypes of them in Fattah 1 and 2. The missiles that defeated Israeli air defences last night were just standard ballistic missiles. Iran’s cruise missiles are also still not hypersonic. Russia is the only country in the world with hypersonic cruise missiles in the Zircon.
This is a helpful graphic to understand the differences between the types of missiles.