The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a strike with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles at a Ukrainian military airfield in the Khmelnitsky region

Ukrainian sources report the arrival of Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles at the Ukrainian military airfield of Starokonstantinov, located in the Khmelnitsky region.

According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, the air raid alert was announced after the defeat of a military facility of high importance for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The nature and scale of the destruction is currently not specified. It is also reported that this is not the first attack on a military airfield in Starokonstantinov.

It is known that the Starokonstantinov airfield housed Ukraine’s remaining Su-24M aircraft, which can be used as carriers of Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles provided by the West to the militants of the Kiev regime, as well as a number of MiG-29 and Su-27.

Ukrainian resources claim that the hypersonic missile that hit the airfield was launched from a Russian MiG-31K fighter from the territory of the Lipetsk region.

Earlier, with the help of Russian Kinzhal missiles, the American Patriot air defense system, previously considered virtually invulnerable to missile attacks, was destroyed. However, the Russian hypersonic missile demonstrated the helplessness of Western air defenses against such weapons.

The Russian Armed Forces continue to methodically destroy the military infrastructure used by militants of the Kyiv regime for terrorist attacks on Russian targets.

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[Msi]

It is known that the Starokonstantinov airfield housed Ukraine’s remaining Su-24M aircraft, which can be used as carriers of Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles provided by the West to militants of the Kyiv regime

Please note that systematic attacks on airfields are producing results. The pigs with their cruise missiles have quieted down...

[AAK]

The Storm Shadow Scalp is used less frequently, but more often missiles from the S-200 in the strike version and UAVs are used

[Alexander Makov]

Complex S-200: these are 4 single-beam launchers + gearbox + power plants + TZM (transport-charging vehicles) + battery of engine chemists (an oxidizer is used). Such a missile, in its best version, is capable of covering a maximum of 240 km; the warhead is equipped with more than 40000 balls. Banderlog remade an air defense missile for strikes on the ground (but this missile at one time could also carry nuclear weapons, and was intended for strikes against air armadas, but.....its first purpose is the destruction of SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft - they are supersonic, They were also capable of carrying nuclear weapons and were based at the Rota base (Spain).....
They didn’t have enough Baltic to turn back....
This is the hardware so that colleagues have UNDERSTANDING...

[Alexander Makov]

I would like to add that I described a STANDARD division with the S-200, it is quite bulky, requires a large number of people, and it is STATIONARY!!!
It is impossible in a short time to collapse it, reposition it, and....expand it accordingly...

[alystan]

And I think that what you said is “strongly supported” by a reduction, or even a complete cessation, of the supply of such missiles and other types of ammunition.
The only strange thing is that they do not run out of planes, and airfields are quickly restored.

[Yaroslav Tekkel]

I remember an article with approximately the same message (“they’ve run out of everything”) was published right before the destruction of the landing ship and submarine at the docks.

[Ascetic]

In addition to the Zhulyany airport in Kyiv and the Starokonstantinov airbase in the Khmelnitsky region, one “Dagger” also looked into the Zhytomyr region

All six MiG-31Ks were operational.
They don’t just launch daggers, the targets are definitely bold
According to the Turks, the Daggers struck the Patriot air defense system battery, recently transferred to Germany, and some underground facilities on the Khmelnytsky line in western Ukraine

[Alexey Lantukh]

We shot at the airfield. Where they hit, what they hit is unknown. This is the news.

[Aerodrome]

Quote: Alexey Lantukh

The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a strike with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles at a Ukrainian military airfield in the Khmelnitsky region

The “dagger” is capable of stuffing anyone in the bunker. strike on the airfield...where? About whom ? According to the ZKP, it’s not there as it should be, not at the airfield. So who did they sell an expensive toy for?

The nature and scale of the destruction is currently not specified.

a hole in..something? well...(secret buzz)... are we idiots or what? either you have nothing to say or you don’t know. That's all. There's nothing more likely. The pilots are handsome without a doubt, they worked accurately on the .. coordinates, they are generally great, there are no questions for them, except “maybe we need something?” landings are equal to takeoffs.

[Bodipancher]

Oleksiy, why not near Avdeevka?

[Thrifty]

What is the point of hitting an airfield with a Dagger? Why waste such a missile on a target “spread out” over an area of ​​tens of square kilometers? They need completely different missiles!

[AAK]

Unless they worked out the information about the appearance of interesting persons on the buried ZKP

[Aerodrome]

Quote: AAK

Unless they worked out the information about the appearance of interesting persons on the buried ZKP

From the ZKP to the takeoff, I drove as much as my ass, and the UAZ... and according to Soviet thoughts, they were not close at all. Although... if you take the slut Europe... everything is nearby there. and in Romania and fielding, these lazy devils have always been there, everything is nearby (Comrade Major - report, 100% info (in a whisper: I saw it myself, I’ll show you...)

[Msi]

They need completely different missiles!

Which ones, Lean, are better to use??? As a marshal, you probably know better...

[hhurik]

Or maybe he is a marshal of armored forces and only knows about armored tanks.

[Thrifty]

Msi - for starters, where do we hit - at the hangars, takeoff, or at the parking lot with a group of aircraft? For the first and third targets, Caliber is enough, for the second target you need to hit with missiles that destroy the concrete coating, but certainly not with a Dagger in this case, it is redundant.

[Msi]

for starters, where do we hit - hangars, takeoff, or parking with a group of aircraft

That's it. We do not know where or what target the blow will be aimed at...
And you immediately...

Why waste such a missile on a target “spread out” over an area of ​​tens of square kilometers? They need completely different missiles!

[Alexey Lantukh]

For the first and third targets, Caliber is enough, for the second target you need to hit with missiles that destroy the concrete coating

If there had been a war, they would have struck with tactical nuclear weapons of 10 kilotons, with a radius of complete continuous destruction of 1,5 km.

[sifgame]

Don’t be tormented already. Thrifty, tell me which ones were needed and where. And in general, this guy needs to be promoted to where the SVO commands. A thrifty person knows better how to conduct SBO.

[Conrad1045]

An ordinary solid-fuel rocket, but unusual control at hypersonic speed on the passive part of the trajectory. For ease of understanding, we can accept the following classification: ground-to-ground - "Iskander-M", air-to-ground - "Dagger", sea-based-ground - "Zircon".

[LuckyBlog]

the first two are quasi-ballistic, the third is hypersonic (I know that Iskander and Dagger develop more than 5M, but almost all ballistic missiles do this)

[Conrad1045]

Control on the active part of the trajectory depends on the control unit, and the task of controlling the trajectory on the passive part at hypersonic speed is a task at a completely different level.

[LuckyBlog]

the difference there is that Zircon is not a ballistic missile, but a hypersonic missile cruiser (HCR), it does not have a ballistic trajectory and it takes oxygen from the atmosphere, and does not carry it (oxidizer) with it as in a ballistic missile (even in liquid, but in solid fuel). The key difference between hypersonic missiles (not gliders) is the presence of scramjet engines. the rest fly the old fashioned way on conventional rocket engines, and gliders are no exception.

[Conrad1045]

The difference in our positions is that I studied at the Department of Rocket Science with a specialty in "Production of Aircraft"

[LuckyBlog]

It’s a shame to study at such a department and not have the necessary knowledge on the required topic.

[Alexander Makov]

Well, well, well.....what, excuse me, BR, Mach 5 fly?! Please clarify...

[LuckyBlog]

almost all of this, Iskander and Dagger are also BR.

[bober1982]

Quote: Thrifty

at a target “spread out” over an area of ​​tens of square kilometers?

Tens of square kilometers (?!) - wouldn’t that be too much, there’s a 2500m strip, concrete caponiers, warehouses with fuel and lubricants and missiles and hidden aircraft, there’s enough targets.
Work brothers.

[tralflot1832]

Does anyone in the world know how to distinguish between "Kinzhal" and "Zircon" in hypersound, thinking the difference is only in the "crap" upon arrival.

[Neutron Retarded]

Zircon is a sea-based missile. Or did I miss something and there are already modifications?

[tralflot1832]

Yes, sea, I don’t argue.

[Yehim]

Wangyu, in light of recent events, zircon production for land launch

[ALCA056000]

Come on vang There definitely is. It makes a big difference to fire from a ship or from a ground-based launcher.

[Alexander Makov]

There are other modifications, in particular, they can ALREADY be used by aircraft carriers....
By the way, it was designed a priori for bombers....

[pharmacist]

Well, “Dagger” justifies itself. They probably installed the best air defense around the airfield, but there is no method against scrap - it didn’t help against hypersound.

[Igor Borisov_2]

Judging by the number of regular attacks on this airfield, there should be nothing left of it...

[bober1982]

Quote: Igor Borisov_2

Judging by the number of regular attacks on this airfield, there should be nothing left of it...

Starokonstantinov airfield (formerly Mazutny, call sign) is one of the few Ukrainian airfields that meet NATO standards (or so they believe), plus concrete caponiers, a large number of underground command posts (all left over from Soviet times), there is somewhere to hide and aircraft, including the notorious British missiles and F-16
We must pay tribute to the Ukrainians - something, but their obstinacy is off the charts, comrades Banderaites, get off the airfield in Starokonstantinov!!!!!! That's it, no more Mazutny! You stubborn people will beat you up anyway.

[Turbuta Dave]

Ukraine has already announced... There were dummies at the airfield. Made from plywood. And we their plywood planes with a Dagger

[dimy44]

There were dummies at the airport

Yeah, and the Dagger was a hologram)

[ALCA056000]

Not a hologram, but a cartoon!

[Bodipancher]

Another little guy with a plywood brain poured gravy into his trousers)

[Yaroslav Tekkel]

More, more anti-fascism!

[Sergey Prutkov55]

The dagger was also wooden. Intelligence works!

[pettabyte]

Without tactical poison, I’m somehow wastefully shielding.
This is such a thing that, if you have the right warhead, it can greatly influence any war (except the one where “the whole world is in ruins,” although there is some sense there).

[Alexey Lantukh]

Without tactical poison, I’m somehow wastefully shielding.

Well, here is at least one like-minded person. If there had been a war, they would have struck with tactical nuclear weapons of 10 kilotons, with a radius of complete continuous destruction of 1,5 km, and the airfield would have been screwed. But, if the Americans stubbornly agree with NATO, they will beg for thermonuclear fusion. Where to go?

[Mikhail Maslov]

I’ll answer the question why they hit with “Daggers”. An airfield with surviving aircraft capable of carrying missile defense means the air defense of this area is also not weak. Here’s your answer. To be guaranteed (meaning intelligence provided data) to hit the targets and use “Dagger”.

[pettabyte]

Why is clear.
I would like to increase the power.
Or something non-nuclear but extremely powerful, or nuclear (always a good trump card, simply because “if so...”), or even play with antimatter.

[Strannik96]

Quote: sifgame

Don’t be tormented already. Thrifty, tell me which ones were needed and where. And in general, this guy needs to be promoted to where the SVO commands. A thrifty person knows better how to conduct SBO.

I propose, at the request of the workers of VO, to send the honored Thrifty to the accelerated courses of the GNSH, whoever votes for it!

[ALCA056000]

Eh.... people study in courses, and this one himself will teach everyone in courses... Have pity on people.

[Strannik96]

Quote from Turbuta Dave

Ukraine has already announced... There were dummies at the airfield. Made from plywood. And we their plywood planes with a Dagger

Of course, but there it is written in small letters below - plywood daggers

[KTM-5]

Are they printing their Su-24s on a 3D printer?! How many of them have been destroyed, and they still don’t end. Okay, I understand, they removed all the cars from the countries of the former ATS. But there must be a limit to everything...

[bober1982]

What limit can be interpreted if, with the collapse of the Union, Ukraine received Su-24 (M) in the amount of almost 300 * vehicles, three attack divisions - Starokonstantinov, Kirovograd, Cherlyany, Dubno, Ovruch, Lutsk + reconnaissance officers Kolomyia, Buyalyk + jammers Chortkov .
There to beat, not to interrupt.

[Yaroslav Tekkel]

In 1994, after the start of the first Chechen war (I wrote it, and I already wanted to apologize), the gentlemen generals remembered the MiG-27. Three years have passed since they were put into conservation, not twenty. So, it turned out that this period is enough to irrevocably kill the car.

[bober1982]

Quote: Yaroslav Tekkel

remembered the MiG-27. Three years have passed since they were put into conservation, not twenty. So, it turned out that this period is enough to irrevocably kill the car.

Even before 1994, a decision was made to write off all single-engine vehicles, and no conservation was planned - they were waiting for their turn to be cut up.
In Ukraine, apart from the attack Su-24, there was virtually nothing, for this reason even two repair bases existed, specifically for the Su-24 - in Lutsk and Ovruch.

[Third district]

Quote: KTM-5

Are they printing their Su-24s on a 3D printer?! How many of them have been destroyed, and they still don’t end.

Somehow there was no mention of the downed Su-24s. The news usually reported on the Mig-29 and Su-25. Maybe there was SVO at the beginning, but I don’t remember after.

[bober1982]

Quote: Third District

Somehow there was no mention of the downed Su-24

Quote: Third District

Maybe there was SVO at the beginning, but I don’t remember after.

Ukrainian Su-24s were actively used in the first months of the Northern Military District, they began to be shot down en masse, namely, en masse, their survivability is weak, especially since they used them along the front edge of the front, used them as attack aircraft.
Next, they began to use them as carriers of well-known missiles, but there were also plenty of problems.
The plane is difficult not in piloting, this is a delusion, but in ground technical training and in rather cumbersome on-board equipment, although they have adapted, this does not save them - ours are hitting airfields, and the aircraft themselves, in fact, the crews of the Su-24, this suicide bombers.

[Aag]

Comrades! (I remember that such an appeal was adopted to respected members of the forum on “VO”)....
Guys, men, boys - comrades (!) - we can all wildly rejoice over individual blows... But! The MiG-31 is far from just a carrier of the Daggers!
Yes, I'm far from an expert in this area, but...
Why has everyone (judging by the publications) come to terms with the fact that the MiG-31 is unique and the technology is irreplaceable? An outstanding fighter (IMHO)! , in some parts, - unsurpassed so far!
So maybe it needs to be repeated? On a new level?!
Why is it repeatedly hammered into us that this is impossible today!?
Isn't it on purpose?
However.... Of our entire team, it seems that I was the only one, at least partially, today who listened to the President... (((.

[Incvizitor]

What's wrong with them that they spent so much of the dagger?

[ALCA056000]

I would also ask differently - who, in general, said that there were “Daggers”? "Ukrainian sources"? Very honest sources! We screwed up the arrival and excused ourselves - it’s impossible to shoot down the Daggers; it’s not our fault.

[Carlos Hall]

Another success of the Khinzal rocket. The airfield was heavily damaged. Western and Ukrainian air defenses were powerless.

[Bauer]

However, you have to hit with Daggers. Those. ukrov air defense is still strong