Iran’s hypersonic missiles vs Israel’s famed Iron Dome air defence system, who will win, who will lose?

New Delhi: The past few days have seen phenomenal action inside the Missile East. The day long past by, October 7, turned into the primary anniversary of Hamas’ attack and invasion of southern Israel.

Israel retaliated with continuous and intense airstrikes on the Palestinian territory of Gaza. End results of the this fact, other armed groups like Hezbollah, the Iraqi Resistance, and the Houthis opened fronts on Israel. These groups together are called the “Axis of Resistance” and joined forces with Hamas claiming solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

This group, the “Axis of Resistance”, is allegedly set up, mentored, funded, trained, and backed fully by Iran.

Iran turned into in a roundabout way involved inside the conflict but had to mark its presence twice, updated up to October 7, 2024.

Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria on April 1, 2024, destroying the building housing its consular section. Sixteen people were killed inside the strike, including eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attack on the embassy building turned into deemed and not using a consideration away attack on Iran, as per international laws.

Twelve days later, on April 13, 2024, the unthinkable happened as Iran launched dozens of drones and missiles on Israel in what it termed as an act of retaliation codenamed “Operation True Promise”. It turned into the primary time that the Persian usa attacked Israel at once from its soil with a hundred and seventy drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 100 and twenty ballistic missiles.

Even the foremost seasoned observers and experts on the Middle East, West Asia, and Israel failed to present so much chance to Iran nor anticipate that the usa would at once lock horns with the Jewish state.

The second instance turned into the combination of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s suspicious death in a helicopter crash, the alleged assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah.

Iran barraged Israel with Four hundred missiles on October 1 inside the attack codenamed Operation True Promise 2.

Now, the total world is waiting with bated breath for the Israeli retaliation against Iran, which is speculated and believed to target Iran’s nuclear websites.

This raises a pertinent question, can Iran’s missiles dodge and defeat Israel’s so much celebrated and acknowledged air defence system comprising the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow System?

Here, let’s do an objective fact-check.

Fattah-1: Fattah-1 is a medium-range ballistic missile developed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and unveiled in June 2023. According to Iran, that is miles the usa’s first hypersonic ballistic missile and its high manoeuvrability and speed assist it to evade missile defence systems, like the ones deployed by Israel.

Fattah-1 missile boasts greater than some 1,Four hundred km and can reach hastens to Mach 15 (5.1 km or three.2 miles per second), an astounding 18,346 km/h.

In November 2023, Iran unveiled a newer version, Fattah-2 which is reported to have the aptitude to hold nuclear warheads. Fattah-2 has boosted Iran’s firepower immensely with greater than some 1500 km and can fly at a speed of 24,696 km/h.

Iran launched dozens of Fattah missiles at Israel in both attacks and the so much-famed Iron Dome may in all probability no longer intercept quite some them, as claimed by a couple of reports.

It covered the distance from Iran to Tel Aviv in 6-7 minutes, thereby hardly giving any time to the Israel air defence to behave. Even their radars may in all probability no longer trace the incoming Fattah missiles.

With Russia in a state of war with Ukraine, Iran reportedly supplied it with quite some Shahed drones and that is miles assumed that Russia will pay in kind or has already paid by arming Iran with its cutting-edge air defence system.

(This information has been compiled from quite quite a number, reliable sources and the facts and figures have been cross-checked thoroughly)