Russian servicemen undergo training in Iran to use Fath-360 missile

Dozens of Russian servicemen undergo training in Iran to use the Fath-360 short-range ballistic missile system, Iranian media report.

In the summer of 2024, Reuters said with reference to sources at European intelligence agencies that Iran was going to transfer hundreds of Fath-360 ballistic missiles to Russia for combat operations as part of the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.

According to the agency, the contract for the transfer of Fath-360 missiles was signed in Tehran in December 2023. The Iranian Fath-360 ballistic missiles are known as an analogue to US-made HIMARS missiles.

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Fath-360 also known as BM-120, is an Iranian short-range satellite-guided tactical ballistic missile announced on the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Day, April 18, 2022. They are built by the Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO). It is believed that Fath 360 is a shorter version of Fateh family of SRBMs. Its light weight and small dimensions allow several of these missiles to be put on a truck-based launcher. With 30 to 120 km (19 to 75 mi) of range, each can carry a 150 kg (330 lb) warhead 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). The Fath 360 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 Fateh-110. But it has the same configuration of fins. Four at the end of it near the exhaust, four other triangular shaped fins just above them and four small ones in front of missile near the nosecone.