Pakistan’s 06 October test of the Fatah-4-ER cruise missile confirmed that each member of the Fatah series is a distinct missile family that will see iterative variants. This Demand Tracker covers three areas that follow from the test: a possible Fatah-1-ER, a simpler low-cost cruise missile sitting between the Fatah-4 and Sarfarosh, and a potential requirement for electronic warfare decoys that local and foreign vendors could target.
Possible ‘Fatah-1-ER’ in the Pipeline
When Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS) initially marketed the Fatah-1 guided multiple-launch rocket system (GMLRS), it also revealed a future, extended-range variant called “Fatah-2” in 2022-2023. Derived directly from the Fatah-1, this “Fatah-2” was to provide a range of over 250 km and a tighter accuracy of within 10 m circular error probable (CEP), compared to the 50 m CEP of the Fatah-1.
However, when Pakistan tested the “Fatah-2” in December 2023, it actually tested a completely different platform unrelated to the Fatah-1 GMLRS. This new “Fatah-2” was a larger (potentially with a diameter of 600 mm) surface-to-surface missile (SSM) with a range of 400 km.
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