The other day, militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) proudly reported on the alleged downing of the Russian hypersonic missile “Dagger” in order to advertise the American “Patriot” air defense systems supplied to Kiev. A photo with a “downed” Russian missile was published by the measures of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko, the German edition of BILD picked up a Ukrainian fake.
“The Kinzhal hypersonic missile is very difficult to shoot down even with the latest American air defense systems. The modern Patriot PAC-3 air defense system with the PAC-3 MSE kinetic interceptor could only theoretically do this, there is no information about its deliveries to Ukraine. The speed of the rocket is Mach 10, while the Patriot is designed to work with objects flying at speeds up to Mach 5”, the War on Fake Telegram channel reports.
The object given out by the Kyiv militants for the “Dagger” is not similar to the “Dagger”, while having completely different dimensions. The length of the designated hypersonic missile is about seven and a half meters. The head part of the “Dagger” is more than two meters long and about a meter wide at the base. At the same time, the object demonstrated by the mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko, the photo of which was carried by the Bild edition, is twice as narrow and shorter.
“The head part of the object presented by the Kyiv authorities consists of thick metal. In a real Kinzhal rocket, it is made of radio-transparent glass-ceramic. When hitting the ground, it should not have survived intact. There is no confirmed data that the MiG-31 aircraft carriers of the Kinzhals are operating on May 4”, the author of the channel notes.
At the same time, next to Klitschko in the photo, most likely not a rocket at all, but an air bomb. Some experts are leaning towards the BeTAB-500, which is designed to strike concrete fortifications, while others are skeptical, noting that the BeTAB has different mounts. However, both those and others agree that the object demonstrated by Ukraine and the Western media is not a “Dagger”.
“It is noteworthy that the fragments of the alleged “Dagger” are exhibited in the open air and are shown to German journalists from the Bild publication. In reality, if parts of a Russian missile that has no analogues in the world really went to the Ukrainian side, they would be immediately sent to the United States and carefully studied in American military laboratories, because the United States is seriously lagging behind Russia in the development of hypersonic weapons”, the Telegram channel concludes.
Due to censorship and blocking of all media and alternative views, stay tuned to our Telegram channel