Hypersonic missiles are stirring fears in the Iran-Israel conflict. Here’s why

AP News ^ | Updated 11:34 AM CDT, June 18, 2025 | Sam McNeil

[CatOwner]

If anyone would know about stirring up fear, it would be AP.

[webheart]

Here’s why: I already know why. It’s because they are scary. People are scared of scary things. Thanks.

[NoLibZone]

Why haven’t they used any?

[DHerion]

If they had them they would have used them already...

[jjotto]

Not magic Sajil missile?

[blackdog]

China just quietly (transponders turned off) made several heavy cargo jet runs to Tehran. Just saying.

China would love nothing more than to turn the region into an American -Israel nightmare.

[SteelPSUGOP]

Clearly some of the video percolating out there shows strikes which are wildly faster than normal missiles....... which have inflicted pretty significant damage.

Now IDF may have neutralized the launchers, but the missiles themselves appear to be beyond our capability to contain.....at present.

[rlmorel]

Gee. Just like the feared Russian hypersonic torpedoes. It is all over for the West.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Be a shame if the Chinese jets spontaneously combusted.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Iran flies F14’s. They no longer have military leadership. There’s a few holes in the ground that are probably not working. I would call BS on the hypersonic stuff.

[SuperLuminal]

BS propaganda by communism’s biggest BS outlet...

[Vermont Lt]

The missiles Iran are using are hypersonic only in their ballistic phase. They DO have a slight ability to maneuver during re-entry, but they are not very good at evading anything.

The Russian hypersonic tech is much more dangerous and it is more like a hypersonic cruise missile.

The Iranians calling this stuff hypersonic is like the Nazi’s rebranding the V2. Yes it’s big. And it’s dangerous. And I would not want them falling on my city. But they are clumsy and not very successful against a decent anti-missile system.

[Vermont Lt]

And the Russian ones are launched from their bombers. So are these Chinese ones.

Iran doesn’t have bombers. An old F4 couldn’t lift them.

[blackdog]

Likely. But my biggest fear is that this needs to be finished fast or every foe will have enough time to formulate a plan to turn this into a horror for America.

China, Nork, Russia, could begin turning on supplies to Houthis, Hamas, Turkey, Syria.....etc....to make this messy.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Here’s why: I already know why. It’s because they are scary. People are scared of scary things. Thanks.

^^^^^^ 🤣 THIS ELOQUENTLY NAILS IT! 😂^^^^^^

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. Here's how I see the "news" from Iran.

[Cobra64]

Hypothetical fear mongering.

[_longranger81]

Israel hold air superiority over Iranian territory. Every launch signs a death sentence to everything at the launch site. Some missiles will get through; enough to learn about them and formulate appropriate defenses, but not enough to forestall the inevitable.

[Theophilus]

Simply put, hypersonic weapons are any missile that travels beyond Mach 5

That's virtually all noncruise missles since the V2. The actual simple definition of a hypersonic weapon is a missle that can MANEUVER beyond Mach 5 and still precisely hit a target.