Pakistan Conducts Successful Test of Extended-Range Fatah-4 Ground-Launched Cruise Missile

Key facts

• Pakistan announced a successful test of an extended-range Fatah-4 ground-launched cruise missile on 6 October 2026, describing the missile as equipped with advanced avionics and state-of-the-art navigational aids.
• The baseline Fatah-4 has a reported range of 750 km, flies a terrain-hugging subsonic profile at about Mach 0.7 and as low as 50 m, and carries a reported 330 kg blast-fragmentation warhead.
• Fatah-4 belongs to the Pakistan Army Rocket Force Command's conventional precision-strike inventory, a command announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in August 2025 after the May India-Pakistan fighting.
• The missile's development is associated with the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM), while Global Industrial & Defence Solutions handles its export marketing.
• The baseline missile's guidance combines satellite navigation, inertial navigation and digital scene matching, with terrain-contour matching attributed to its Babur lineage, and a reported accuracy of approximately 5 m circular error probable.
• President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir commended the launch, which followed baseline training fires in September 2025 and May 2026.