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Putin fires hypersonic missile at Ukraine: Russia steps up war of attrition with another strike on west of country with 9,000mph missile as Kyiv claims invaders have suffered 15,000 casualties
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Using up the expensive inventory.
- Moscow claims the 'Kinzhal'- or Dagger - missile is 'unstoppable' by current Western defensive weapons
- The weapon, which has a range of 1,250 miles, is nuclear capable. The Friday attack was a conventional strike
- Vladimir Putin has termed the missile 'an ideal weapon' that flies at 10 times the speed of sound
- The missile was one of an array of new weapons Putin unveiled in his state-of-the-nation address in 2018
- Russia first used the weapon during its military campaign in Syria in 2016 to support the Assad regime
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-03-19 |
