"Early to rejoice": the Armed Forces told why it is difficult to knock down "daggers" (video)
According to Ignati, in Russia, the X-47 "dagger" missiles are represented as a "super weapon" and still cannot believe that the Armed Forces managed to knock one of them. "We have weapons against ballistics, we have been asking for our partners for a long time. It is both Patriot and Samp \ t that are capable of knocking down ballistic goals. And when Patriot has already stopped for combat duty, there is nothing left to test.
He did not work with the type of goals such as this X-47 "dagger",-said Ignatius. The speaker has confirmed the successful destruction of the goal. However, complexes capable of destroying ballistic missiles in Ukraine are still very small. "So we have to be happy that there is such a weapon, but it is too pleasing because it is not enough. It takes much more, more of these systems need to protect our big cities, infrastructure, nuclear power facilities.
We always emphasize this for our Western partners that weapons are needed against ballistics - first and foremost, for this purpose, well, and it is more long -range in terms of aerodynamic purposes. And we do not forget to mention the F-16 every time-this is what will protect our Ukraine and help us win, "Ignatius said. The "Air Base" "iskander. " Iskander-M "is launched from the ground, it flies high into the sky, in fact in the stratosphere, and at high speed turns down.
Immediately, the MiG-31 aircraft rises to a very high height, where the sparse air, from there it launches this "dagger",-explained a representative of the air forces. According to Ignati, the rocket accelerates to a very high speed, then drops to the target from top to bottom. Thus, it is impossible to knock it down with high speed. However, Patriot complexes are on the teeth.
On May 6, the Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk announced that Ukrainian defenders managed to knock down the Russian winged rocket X-47 "dagger", which was previously invulnerable to available air defense. According to him, at night the Mig-31K fighter launched the X-47 "dagger" from the territory of Russia, but the Ukrainian military was able to knock it from the Patriot Anti-aircraft missile system received from the United States.