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Smcfancontrol ramps up6/23/2023 Kinzhal missiles came into service with the Russian military only in 2018. Six of these missiles were used during a missile attack in the early hours of March 9, 2023. In the early hours of May 16, the Air Defense Forces shot down six Kinzhal missiles fired from six MiG-31K aircraft.Įarlier, AFU Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk confirmed on May 6 that Ukraine had shot down a Russian Kinzhal airborne ballistic missile for the first time near Kyiv in the early hours of May 4. Read also: Air Force reveals that Patriot system that took down Russian Kinzhal was operating autonomously The Russians announced plans to integrate the Kinzhal into these strategic bombers, but they’ve failed to do so (so far).” “And the background information disseminated by some resources that the Kinzhal can be mounted on Tu-160 or Tu-122M3 is fortunately not true. ![]() "It seems that six MiG-31K aircraft is the maximum, with 10-12 units available on paper," the expert described Russia's ability to attack with the Kinzhal. The warplane was specially adapted to be a launch platform for Kinzhal missiles. Kyrychevskyi said the Russians' ability to attack with Kinzhals is now limited primarily by the number of serviceable MiG-31K aircraft they can get into the air at the same time. “And the Russians were producing one or two Kinzhal missiles per month. Now it turns out that Russians can produce up to 10 such missiles per month.” "They managed to engage our targets with something," he said. Read also: Vulnerability of Kinzhal missiles likely surprise for Russia, says UK intelligence Kyrychevskyi said that, according to the data available at the beginning ofJanuary, the Russians had a maximum of 53 Kinzhals. “This indicates that, unfortunately, they were able to scale up the production of Kinzhals fivefold.” "Defense Minister (Oleksii) Reznikov said a very poignant and unpleasant thing: it turns out that the Russians had as many as 80 Kinzhals at the beginning of May," Kyrychevskyi said. According to Yuriy Ihnat, at that time Russia had about 50 such missiles.Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko shows a fragment of a Kinzhal missile, May 12, 2023 ![]() ![]()
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