Russia’s Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile A Game-Changing Weapon | kinzhal Missile Strike Ukraine

Military Facts The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (in Russian: "Dagger", NATO reporting name Killjoy) is a Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile. It is claimed to have a range of 3,000 km and Mach 12 speed. It can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads and can be launched by Tu-22M3 bombers or MiG-31K interceptors. It has been deployed at airbases in Russia's Southern Military District and Western Military District. The Kinzhal entered service in December 2017 and was one of the six new Russian strategic weapons unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 1 March 2018. The missile is designed to hit NATO warships posing a threat to strategic missile systems in European Russia and to destroy NATO missile defense systems, ballistic missile defense ships, and land objects close to the Russian borders. It is allegedly designed to overcome any known or planned NATO air or missile defense systems including the MIM-104 Patriot, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, and Aegis Combat System. Rather than using the more recent hypersonic glide and scramjet missile designs, it uses standard ballistic missile technology at greater speeds. The overall design of the missile is shared with the 9K720 Iskander, with the guidance section modified for Kinzhal. It can reportedly hit both static targets and mobile ones such as aircraft carriers. The high speed of the Kinzhal gives it better target penetration than lighter, slower cruise missiles. With advanced maneuvering capabilities, high precision, and hypersonic speed, some sources give it the name "carrier killer" due to its alleged ability to disable and possibly even sink a 100,000-ton supercarrier with a single strike. If it strikes with a mass of 2,000 kg, including a 500 kg warhead, and at a speed of Mach 12, the Kinzhal has more than 16.9 gigajoules of kinetic energy excluding detonation, the equivalent of 4,000 kg of TNT. Russian media state the missile's range as 2,000 km when carried by the MiG-31K and 3,000 km when carried by the Tu-22M3. Russia's military has fired a hypersonic ballistic missile and destroyed a big underground arms depot in western Ukraine, the defense ministry said. If confirmed it would be Russia's first use in this war of the Kinzhal, or Dagger, a ballistic missile launched from the air, most likely by a MiG-31 warplane. The Kinzhal can carry a nuclear warhead as well as a conventional one and recent reports said MiG-31 fighters had been sent to Kaliningrad, bringing numerous European capitals within reach. There is no indication from where the attack on the arms depot was launched. #kinzhalmissile #viralvideo #hypersonic_missile #russiandefense #trend