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The Kinzhal entered service in December 2017 and was one of the six new Russian strategic weapons unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 1 March 2018. [22] [23] The Kinzhal missile has since been deployed on the MiG-31K, [24] the Tu-160M, [25] the Tu-22M3M, [26] and also reportedly the Su-34. [27]
Purported remnant of a Kinzhal warhead displayed in Ukraine in May 2023 [4] The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile started test operations in December 2017 and has been deployed since 2018. [5] On 27 December 2019, TASS reported that the first missile regiment armed with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle officially entered combat duty. [6]
In 2018, Russia unveiled an air-launched ballistic missile called Kh-47M2 Kinzhal with a range of 2,000 km (1,200 mi). It is suspected to be a version of the Iskander missile. Earlier Soviet aero-ballistic missiles have a much shorter range, e.g. Kh-15 only has a range of 300 km (190 mi). In March 2022, the Kinzhal was used for the first time ...
Kinzhal missiles believed to have been used as part of attack which killed at least 23 people and reduced children’s hospital in Kyiv to rubble.
The Kh-69 is a product of the Tactical Missile Corporation subsidiary MKB Raduga. [2] It was first unveiled in August 2022. [4] [5]In September 2023, the International Institute for Strategic Studies reported that the Kh-69 was still in the testing phase of development.
In the 1970s, the Kh-22 was upgraded to Kh-22M and Kh-22MA standard, with new attack profiles, somewhat longer range, and a datalink allowing mid-course updates. Kh-22M/MA — upgraded variants with Mach 3.3 speed and 600 km (370 mi) range. Weighs 5,780 kg (12,740 lb), contains 960 kg (2,120 lb) of RDX.
The Avangard (Russian: Авангард, "Vanguard"; previously known as Objekt 4202, Yu-71 and Yu-74) is a Russian hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). It can be carried as a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) payload of heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), such as the UR-100UTTKh, [6] [7] R-36M2 and RS-28 Sarmat.
The Vympel R-37 (NATO reporting name: AA-13 Axehead) [1] is a Russian long-range air-to-air missile.The missile and its variants also had the names K-37, izdeliye 610 and RVV-BD (Ракета Воздух-Воздух Большой Дальности (Raketa Vozduh-Vozduh Bolshoy Dalnosti), "Long range air-to-air rocket"), and the NATO codenames "Axehead" and "Andi". [2]