Calling a Fattah hypersonic is a misleading claim. It is simply a ballistic missile that reaches hypersonic speeds, which is different from a true hypersonic weapon in its flight path and ability to maneuver. This distinction is important because it makes it significantly easier to shoot down than something like a hypersonic glide vehicle or hypersonic cruise missile.

But I agree with your point that it does remain difficult to intercept and poses the shot-exchange problem.

There's videos from Israel showing Iranian missiles performing AD evading maneuvers that western media was saying was impossible a few months ago.

Depends on the school. https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/1at8gj4...

But they can steer, videos show that.

This really shouldn't surprise anyone. Iran graduates as many engineers as the US (70% women), but few of them are working on front-end A/B optimization of some boutique dating site.

And, having taken grad classes with folks graduated from Iranian universities, their training is excellent. The Persian kids were always at the top of their class.

EDIT: for the record the class I merely audited was graduate level (rational) mechanics - the class par excellence if you're going to build a hypersonic.

Some observations:

Half the class was Chinese, the academically better half was Persian.

I was the only Westerner (albeit also foreigner)

The girls were wearing veils.

According to the professor, the best mecanist (?) of the 20th century, Clifford Truesdelle, was an American

The Professor was Iranian.

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