This is John Batchelor, speaking with my colleague Benham-Ben-Telbleau

of the Foundation for the Defense of democracies.

With the threat from Iran repeated each day in a headline.

Do they have a hypersonic missile that is maneuverable,

that is extremely deadly, and not many or any known defenses?

The answer is various because of the pretensions of the regime, the non-transperancy of an arsenal,

and what is to be done? This is Benamantalablou. Does Iran possess a

hypersonic missile? It's a good question because twice in the past year they have revealed what they claimed was a

hypersonic ballistic missile the first time and looked to be more of a maneuvering reentry

vehicle the second time and this was you know summer versus

fall slash winter the second time it actually did appear to look like a hypersonic glide

vehicle we haven't seen independent confirmation of this and we haven't seen

video of these projectiles as as launch. But given that they can traverse the minimum distance

between Iran and Israel, which is 1,400 kilometers.

It's likely that the regime wants to use these to kind of signal resolve and deterrence

against the Israelis.

If these weapons function,

it's an altogether different manner.

The challenge is what does function, though,

are a lot of the regime's other short-range ballistic missiles

and medium-range ballistic missiles missiles and the regime has even

cordoned off a class of its medium range ballistic missiles as quote-unquote Israel ending missiles.

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