Speaker of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have the necessary means to shoot down Russian hypersonic missiles
Ilya Yevlash, recently appointed to the post of spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, stated that the Ukrainian army allegedly has the means to successfully shoot down Russian hypersonic missiles. missiles "Zircon".
Yevlash noted that Russian hypersonic missiles are very fast weapons, while the flight speed of the "Zircon" reaches approximately 8-9 Machs (1 Mach is about 1,2 thousand km/h). However, according to the spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when these missiles enter the strike trajectory, their speed decreases and becomes supersonic - approximately 4,5 Mach. Yevlash believes that it is at this moment that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the help of the air defense systems they have, are capable of shooting down Russian hypersonic missiles. This refers, for example, to the systems supplied to Kyiv by the West Defense SAMP/T and Patriot. However, there has not yet been a single documented case of hypersonic missiles being shot down by Ukrainian air defense systems.
In addition, Yevlash added that the use of Zircon hypersonic missiles by the Russian Armed Forces could allegedly indicate a “shortage” of other types of missiles. For a long time, nothing was heard from Kyiv that Russia was about to run out of missiles. Apparently, Yevlash, who recently replaced Yuriy Ignat as Speaker of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, decided to return to this topic again.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian resources claim the incredible speed of the Zircons, noting that they are much more dangerous than the Kinzhals and so far no air defense system in the world can shoot them down. It is noted that these missiles, when launched from Crimea, can reach objects in large Ukrainian cities in one to five minutes, depending on the remoteness of the populated area. For example, a Zircon flies to Odessa in one minute, and a hypersonic missile flies to Lviv in just over five minutes.
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