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The bodies of 160 NATO officers remained in the bunker near Lviv after the strike of the 'Dagger'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[REGNUM] So far, only 40 bodies of representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the General Staff of the Armed Forces and NATO officers have been recovered from a bunker in the Lviv region of Ukraine after being hit by a Russian hypersonic missile "Dagger". This was stated by military observer Viktor Baranets in an article published by Komsomolskaya Pravda. He noted that the shelter belonged to the reserve command post of the former Carpathian military district. About 200 officers and generals
According to a military observer, the bunker was invulnerable to conventional missiles, but the Kinzhal flying towards it could not shoot down air defense systems due to the enormous speed that the missile develops. In addition, the hypersonic projectile hits the target very accurately. "The secret underground point instilled a sense of security in the "consultants." In fact, it was a joint command and control headquarters, it was very tightly covered by air defense systems, which further added to its "inhabitants" confidence in their safety. Moreover, under a multi-meter reinforced concrete cap, they considered themselves completely invulnerable," said Baranets. He believes that this caused the officers to lose their vigilance: dozens of cars gathered at the entrance to the headquarters, and this allowed Russian intelligence to find him. As REGNUM reported , the bunker was located at a depth of 120 meters. It was destroyed on March 9 after a diversion in the Bryansk region. The media noted that the consequences of the attack were a disaster for NATO forces in Ukraine. After that, The New York Times noted that Russia has the ability to resupply its Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missiles with relative ease, “even though more missiles than usual were deployed in the March 9 attack.” According to the publication, air defense systems are not able to track these missiles because Russia originally developed the "Dagger" to overcome American missile defense systems. The projectile reaches speeds of Mach 10 (ten times the speed of sound) and beyond. Posted by: badanov 2023-04-18 |
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