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The missile hit a ground target at Pemboy proving ground, reaching a speed of Mach 10. [33] In June 2021, a Kinzhal missile was launched by a MiG-31K from Khmeimim Air Base on a ground target in Syria. [34] A separate aviation regiment was formed in 2021 which is armed with MiG-31K aircraft with the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. [35]
Ukraine said it had shot down six Russian Kinzhal missiles in a single night, taking down a weapon Moscow has branded as a next-generation hypersonic missile that was all but unstoppable.
The Air Force said it shot down one Kinzhal missile over Kyiv region, while another two hit Starokostiantyniv district, location of an air base in Khmelnytskyi region west of Kyiv that has been ...
In 2023, it was claimed that a Kinzhal missile had been shot down by the Ukrainian air defense forces using a MIM-104 Patriot missile defence system. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] On 10 May 2023, the Ukrainian politician Vitali Klitschko showed fragments of the alleged downed Kinzhal missile for Bild journalists in Kyiv . [ 13 ]
On 27 June 2023, the brigade's commander Serhii Volodymyrovych Yaremenko was awarded the "Hero of Ukraine", the highest military award for Ukrainian personnel, [10] [11] for the brigade's shooting down of 13 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. [12]
Ukraine’s military also said that an X-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missile was launched alongside seven cruise missiles in the attack, adding that all but one of the cruise missiles were shot down ...
In the morning, the Russian military launched a massive missile strike on Ukraine. [ 4 ] According to the Ukrainian Air Force , the strike used 63 Shahed attack drones (55 of them were shot down), 12 Iskander-M ballistic missiles , 40 Kh-101 / Kh-555 cruise missiles (35 were shot down), 5 Kh-22 cruise missiles, 7 Kinzhal missiles , 2 Kh-59 ...
Russia also fired a Kinzhal hypersonic missile and seven Kh-101 cruise missiles, six of which were shot down, the Ukrainian air force said. "In particular, an intercontinental ballistic missile ...