News: Turkey has unveiled its first hypersonic ballistic missile, the Tayfun Block-4 in Istanbul.
About Tayfun Block-4 Missile
- It is the hypersonic version of the Tayfun missile, which is Turkey’s indigenously produced longest-range ballistic missile.
- The term “hypersonic” is often used to refer to hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic cruise missiles.
- They are highly advanced weapons and can manoeuvre mid-flight at hypersonic speed inside Earth’s atmosphere, which makes it very hard to track and intercept.
- Hypersonic missiles travel at Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound (about 3,800 miles per hour, 6,100 kilometres per hour).
- Developed by: It is developed by the Turkish defense firm
- Features
- It weighs 2,300 kg and measures 5 meters in length.
- Range: It has a stated range of 500 to 800 km, with future versions aiming to exceed 1,000 km.
- Warheads: It has multi-purpose warhead which will be capable of destroying numerous strategic targets, such as air defense systems, command and control centers, military hangars, and critical military facilities.
