“I’ll just reveal one secret. Many Ukrainian media write about the Kinzhal, which is launched from MiGs: that this is a hypersonic missile. This is not a hypersonic missile. This is an Iskander, which is simply launched from the air. ” This is not a hypersonic missile,” Levin said.
He noted that hypersonic weapons are “a completely different weapon, of a different quality”.
“The United States has also been experimenting with hypersonic weapons for many years and hasn’t been able to solve many problems,” Levin added.
The analyst pointed out that it could be years between testing and adoption phases.
“That is, tests do not mean that tomorrow they will start churning out like hot cakes from the oven. It could take a very long time. There are many problems with hypersonic weapons … So that these weapons are both controllable and work correctly, as it is necessary. That is, the concept is theoretically understandable, but it turned out to be prohibitively difficult to implement. There are tests and, apparently, they are successful. One way or another, no one shows me the reports, they have not provided documents and have not provided none. But it’s just that the United States with its $700 billion budget, there’s no way to fix this. The best minds are working there, high rates and salaries, so to speak,” Levin said.
He recalled the speech about Iran’s hypersonic missile, which was allegedly being tested or “closed for testing”, and expressed the opinion that this is only “filler for the media”.
“This has nothing to do with reality, with military weapons, arsenals and so on. Not only does Russia not have a secret, it also does not have a hypersonic one. Kinzhal is the same Iskander, only it is launched from aircraft off the ground,” says the analyst.
Batsman noted that the use of the Kh-47, even if this missile is not hypersonic, causes problems for Ukraine, since the air defense does not intercept the Kinzhal.
“Of course. Well, a weapon is also so unpleasant – I don’t know – a cannon of the First World War, from which a shell flies and kills a person in the same way. This is also unpleasant … Russia and Iran: what a secret weapon? Now they have reactivated D-1 artillery: WWII howitzers. Literally already the Second World War, not figuratively a figure of speech. What is the secret weapon“, concluded Levin.
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Hypersonic missiles travel at Mach 5 (6,000 km/h) or faster, making them difficult for missile defense systems to detect. Hypersonic missiles can move on a much lower trajectory, are able to maneuver and evade missile defense systems.
It is known that the development of hypersonic missiles is being done United States of AmericaRussia, China, DPRK, France and Japan. In addition, Australia has signed agreements on joint projects in this area with the United States. The United States has also announced plans create a satellite tracking system hypersonic missiles. In October 2022, the United States conducted another test of hypersonic weapon components.
On March 1, 2018, during a speech to the Federal Assembly, Putin said that, among other things, Russian weapons, which “have no analogues”, are already Adopted for the service of the hypersonic airborne missile complex “Dagger”. During the speech, she showed the head of the Kremlin rocket test video and animated videos with simulation of defeating conditional targets.
US officials confirmed to the American channel CNNthat Russia launched hypersonic missiles into Ukraine in 2022 after a full-scale invasion, the first known use of such missiles in combat.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted that since February 24, only a few cases of the use of “Daggers” by the occupiersthey are only used for very important purposes.
According to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, since November 22 the Russian military 43 “Daggers” remained16 of these missiles were used during the war in Ukraine ..
