Russian forces fired several hypersonic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday — a weapon that can travel four times the speed of sound and is thought to be nuclear-capable. Ukrainian forces say they’re not capable of defending against a hypersonic missile.
that the enemy had never fired so many of them in a single attack. Ignat said only 34 of the 81 total incoming Russia missiles were shot down.A villager passes by debris of private houses ruined in a Russian attack in a village in Zolochevsky district in the Lviv region, Ukraine, on Thursday. Ukrainian forces said the Russian barrage included the use of hypersonic missiles.
An even more sophisticated weapon, Russia's Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, can fly at speeds as high as Mach 27, according to the Kremlin. Another hypersonic, the Zircon anti-ship missile, has also reportedly been developed, but there are no reports of the Zircon or Avangard being used in combat.The Kinzhal"is launched from an aircraft and has a shorter range than Avangard,", co-director of the nuclear policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
But last year, after the first reported use of the Kinzhal in Ukraine, Acton downplayed the significance of the weapons as a"game changer" in the conflict. "I don't know how much of an advantage Russia is getting from using hypersonic missiles," he told the
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