That extra weight limits the range significantly, although the Russian military claims the Kinzhal can fly 2,000 kilometers. The use of a rocket rather than a scramjet-a technology still in development-means that the missile must carry not just fuel but also oxidant. The Kinzhal missile is deployed from a MiG-31K or Tu-22M3 traveling at Mach 2.7 its rocket engine then kicks it up to Mach 10.
The Avangard missile is an HGV released from an intercontinental ballistic missile it reportedly tops out at Mach 27, and it has the mission of delivering a nuclear warhead as part of a strike on an enemy’s intercontinental missile bases and other strategic assets. This destabilizes nuclear deterrence, without doubt the cornerstone of military competition.Īlthough the Russian hypersonics program has several HBMs and HGVs in development, their arsenal currently only includes one type of each. Each move and countermove shaves away the time available for leaders to decide how to respond to a possible nuclear strike. Over the past five years, China and Russia have introduced them into their arsenals, prompting the United States and other nations to develop their own hypersonic weapons and enhanced air-defense systems to counter this threat. The matter is being closely scrutinized not only in Ukraine but throughout the world, because hypersonic missiles now figure prominently in the military calculation of great powers. The sixth Kinzhal damaged, but did not destroy, a Patriot battery. Three days later, the Russian military reportedly launched a series of six Kinzhal missiles at Ukrainian sites the Ukrainians shot down five of the six. It was reported that the Kinzhal was specifically targeting that system when it was shot down.
On 6 May Ukrainians shot down a Kinzhal outside Kiev using a Patriot air-defense system, supplied by the United States just weeks before. But just this month the world discovered that the Kinzhal was not immune.
There is some dispute as to whether the Kinzhal qualifies as a true hypersonic weapon, namely, one that can fly faster than five times the speed of sound (Mach 5) while maintaining the ability to maneuver-a combination of features that supposedly makes the missile immune to existing countermeasures. The largest salvo was fired on 9 March 2023 as part of a barrage that included other missiles and drones. Another such attack came the next day, then more in April and May, and still more eight months later. The first reported use of a hypersonic weapon in combat was on 18 March 2022, when a Russian Kinzhal missile destroyed an alleged underground weapons depot of the Ukrainian armed forces in Deliatyn.
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