{"id":269385,"date":"2023-05-31T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T07:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269385"},"modified":"2023-06-01T05:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T05:40:04","slug":"iran-claims-to-test-hypersonic-missile-that-can-breach-all-defense-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269385","title":{"rendered":"Iran claims to test hypersonic missile that can breach all defense shields"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times of Israel \u2013 May 30, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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General Amir Ali Hajizadeh<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran on Monday announced that it had finished testing a new hypersonic missile capable of penetrating all defense systems and that it will soon be unveiled.<\/p>\n

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who commands the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019s aerospace unit, said the development marked a \u201cgreat leap in the field of missiles,\u201d and that\u00a0 \u201cthe hypersonic missile has a high speed and can maneuver both in and out of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hajizadeh first revealed the development of the hypersonic missile last November.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be able to breach all the systems of anti-missile defense,\u201d said the general at the time, adding that he believed it would take decades before a system capable of intercepting it is developed.<\/p>\n

Hypersonic missiles, like traditional ballistic missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons, can fly more than five times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n

A hypersonic missile is also maneuverable, making it harder to track and defend against.<\/p>\n

While countries like the United States and Israel have developed systems designed to defend against cruise and ballistic missiles, the ability to track and take down a hypersonic missile remains a question.<\/p>\n

Last week, Iran unveiled another version of a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles), enough to hit areas of Israel.<\/p>\n

The Kheibar missile \u2014 the latest version of the Khorramshahr, which is Iran\u2019s longest-range missile to date \u2014 was unveiled Thursday alongside a replica of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City, in a live broadcast on state television.<\/p>\n

Iran said the missile had been successfully test-launched, with State TV broadcasting a few seconds of footage of what it said was the launch.<\/p>\n

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Although Iran has some very capable scientists and engineers, it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that Russia may have passed on some of its hypersonic know how in exchange for Iran’s assistance with drones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269385"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269393,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269385\/revisions\/269393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}