+34
The Ukrainian Air Force Command claims to have shot down two Russian Zircon hypersonic missiles which were targeting Kyiv.
, Russia used 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missiles to hit targets in Ukraine’s capital on Monday morning. They were launched from land-based missile systems in Crimea. The reports went on to add that the missiles covered the distance of 580 kilometers to Kyiv within three minutes, which indicates a hypersonic flight speed.
It can be estimated at 11,600 km/h or more thanUS B-52 bomber tests ARRW hypersonic missile to narrow gap with China“At about 10:30 am, the Russian troops attacked Kyiv with two ballistic missiles from the temporarily occupied Crimea. The targets were destroyed, the type is being identified,” read the Ukrainian Air Force Command The post was attributed to Ukraine’s Commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Nikola Oleshchuk. Vitali Klitschko, the number of injured people has reached ten after debris from the two downed missiles wrecked part of a building in the Pechersk district. typically refers to craft that travel at speeds of Mach 5 or greater, that is, five times the speed of sound, which is 1,125 feet per second at sea level. Zircon missiles are estimated to reach 11,600 km/h speeds, or more than Mach 9. They are said to have a range of 1,000 kilometers and can hit sea and land targets. An approximate recreation of the Zircon missile. Credit: Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise The debris obtained by the Ukrainian forces has led to one of the first few photographs of the missile in the public domain. As per a , the debris shows parts of the missile with factory markings. The debris appears to be part of the fuselage, a solid fuel engine, and what is probably an undetonated warhead. The report also states that the engravings with part numbers on the recent wreckage match the ones found during the Kyiv attack done by Russia in February. Russia had used the Zircon missile systems in February to target the Ukrainian capital, as was confirmed by President Vladimir Putin on February 29.A B-52H bomber flying from the US Pacific island territory of Guam fired a hypersonic missile earlier this week. As per several reports, China is miles ahead when it comes to developing, testing, and deploying hypersonic weapons. It has moved significantly ahead of Russia, and what worries the US is that it has yet to get even one hypersonic missile in its arsenal.US Forces drill with Ghost drones, robot dogs to sync battle signalsTech execs eye natural gas to fuel AI boom while hindering climate change
Scratch the next story
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News: You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Mass Russian drone strike hits northeast Ukraine, disrupts TV and radio signalRussia launched a massive overnight drone attack in the northeastern region of Ukraine, causing damage to communications' infrastructure.
Read more »
Ukraine war updates: Russia heads to the polls; 20 dead in Odesa after Russian missile attackRussians head to the polls on Friday in a presidential election that is all but certain to grant President Vladimir Putin a fifth term in power.
Read more »
Russian missiles kill at least 16 people in latest strike on Odesa in southern UkraineUkrainian officials say first responders who arrived at the scene of a Russian missile attack in Odesa were themselves struck by a second missile.
Read more »
Wife of Russian political prisoner: Russian people “enraged” at Putin after years of “being lied to”This is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics
Read more »
Russian elections take place with armed guards in occupied territories in Ukraine: ReportRussia held elections in in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson regions Saturday.
Read more »
Ukraine appeals to citizens under Russian occupation to ignore Putin’s ‘pseudo elections’Ukraine’s government has told citizens living in Russian-occupied territories to turn their backs on what they call Moscow’s pseudo-elections, which culminate on Sunday and are widely assumed to see Vladimir Putin returned as president for six more years.
Read more »