It was meant to be the Russian 'wonder weapon,' but it turned out to be just another example of Vladimir Putin's military over-promising and under-delivering.
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The Kh-47M2 “Kinzhal” — which means “dagger” in Russian — was billed as a state-of-the-art hypersonic missile, “invincible,” in Putin’s words, to Western air defenses. For the early months of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, it seemed to be just that. The missile had been used in the first year of the war to successfully strike several targets across Ukraine, no doubt causing significant damage.That all changed when Ukraine received U.S.
During the May 16 attack, which directly targeted the Patriot system, part of the platform suffered"minor" damage, according to U.S. officials, that was repaired within a day. The Kremlin, of course, has maintained the fiction that all its missiles successfully hit their targets.
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