Russian troops made the first combat use of the new Kanzhal hypersonic missiles. This was reported to the Russian Ministry of Defense, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to official representative of the department Igor Konashenkov, the aircraft missile system worked on targets the day before.
“On March 18, the Kinzhal aircraft missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse of missiles and aviation ammunition of the Ukrainian troops in the village of Delyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region,” the message says.
According to military experts, the use of “Daggers” against Ukrainian Armed Forces targets justified their purpose.
“It was used because it was most suitable for solving these problems, most likely, this is the only reason for this decision. Why do we use it? Because any war is a test, including the most modern weapons. This is a war of such a scale that we have not waged since 45; in fact, this is the biggest war. Therefore, now we are using the entire range of weapons - in warehouses, throughout the entire business with such high-precision weapons so as not to hit anything around,” said observer Vladislav Shurygin.
“This suggests that modern weapons, which have recently been supplied to the troops, are being used in combat and confirm their high qualities. These are not just combat training launches at a training ground, but use in combat conditions is a completely different level of use of forces and means,” added Sergei Gorbachev, director of the Sevastopol branch of the Institute of CIS Countries, reserve captain XNUMXst rank.
Let us recall that Russian President Vladimir Putin first announced the appearance of the Kinzhal complex during his address to the Federal Assembly in March 2018, at which time video materials of the Kinzhal test were shown. Russian liberals and Ukrainian nationalists called it “cartoons” and categorically refused to believe that the missile system actually existed.
The publicly stated characteristics of the Kinzhal indicate that it uses 9-S-7760 missiles. They are capable of hitting stationary objects as well as surface targets, and the missile's speed is ten times the speed of sound. It also maneuvers during flight, which allows it to be guaranteed to overcome all existing air defense and missile defense systems. During exercises using “Daggers”, as well as “Caliber” cruise missiles In 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin observed in Crimea.