Fath-360 (

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: فتح-۳۶۰), also known as BM-120, is an Iranian short-range satellite-guided

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announced on the

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, April 18, 2022. With of range, each can carry a

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and be launched with the speed of Mach 3 (1020 m/s). Then they connect to satellites for rapid homing and hit their targets with the speed of Mach 4 (1361 m/s).FarsNews.ir, آنچه در رزمایش اقتدار 1401 گذشت/ از شلیک موشک فتح 360 برای اولین بار تا عملیات شبانه بالگردها, 09 September, 2022

Design

It is believed that Fath-360 is a shorter version of

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family of SRBMs. Its light weight and small dimensions allow several of these

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to be put on a truck-based launcher.

Missile

Fath-360 Missile was first shown under the name of Fath in a military exhibition on August 21, 2020. As a family of Fateh SRBMs, it is almost half the size of a

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But has the same configuration of

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. Four at the end of it near the exhaust, four other triangular shaped

just above them and four small ones in front of missile near the

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Launcher

The missile is launched through a round launch container on a truck-based TEL. The Fath-360 launcher comes with two, three, four or six-round launch containers each carrying one missile. with these characteristics it can act like a

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Guidance

Fath-360 uses

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and is believed to be using

GLONASS GLONASS (russian: ГЛОНАСС, label=none, ; rus, links=no, Глобальная навигационная спутниковая система, r=Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, t=Global Navigation Satellite System) is ...

satellite navigation system as its

. The missile is also believed to be using

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as a secondary guidance system.

Operators

* ** Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces ** Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces

Operational history

Fath-360 was first test fired during the Eghtedar 1401 military

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at Nasrabad,

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. Eurasiantimes.com, HIMARS Hysteria! Iran Claims Testing Indigenous Fath 360 Missiles That Is ‘Very Similar’ To US Army’s MLRS, September 20, 2022. Reports also say that Fath-360 has been used to attack the positions of KDPI in Northern Iraq on September 28, 2022.^{See 2022 Koya bombings.}

References

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