Why is the Kh-22 the Real Beast in Russia's Missile Arsenal?
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Published 2024-01-27
Back in 2000, Ukraine handed over 386 Kh-22 missiles to Russia as part of a repayment for gas debt. Throughout the full-scale invasion, Russian forces have launched approximately 300 Kh-22 missiles at Ukraine, and up until now, none of these missiles have been intercepted or brought down by Ukrainian air defense forces. The Ukrainian air force spokesperson, Yuriy Ignat, openly admitted this fact, emphasizing the serious danger posed by Kh-22 missiles to Ukraine.
In its coverage last December, Moscow's media TASS reported that Ignat highlighted the technical hurdles posed by the Kh-22 missile, underlining the need for specialized means of interception. The missile's speed and trajectory pose a significant challenge for traditional air defense systems.
Ignat specifically noted the Patriot air defense systems as potentially effective against the Kh-22, but their success in the Ukrainian context remains uncertain. Despite receiving Western support in the form of SAMP-T, Patriot, Iris-T, NASAMS, and Crotale air defense systems, Ukrainian authorities argue that the provided systems are inadequate to counter the Kh-22 threat.
What makes this missile particularly challenging to defeat, and why this cold war relic gives Ukraine more chills than the hypersonic Kinzhal?
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All Comments (21)
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Can we just pause for a moment to admire just how badass the Tu-22 Backfire is 😎
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They can't shoot down a Kh-22, but can a Kinzhal. If anyone believes this, you need help.
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In a way they are right in saying they manged to intercept a Kinzhal with Patriot when the Kinzhall struck the Patriot battery on the ground.
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remember, the Khinzel flies at 11 mach. Its punch is not just its explosives; it is its kinetic energy. the faster a missile goes, the more important kinetic explosiveness is, rather than the explosive it carries. the Kinetic energy alone of a 10 Mach missile can break a ship in half.
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funny. Ukraine cannot shoot down significantly slower missiles, but has shot down 10 hypersonic ones)
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For a secondary nation and gas station to the World the technological level of its arms is astonishing. May be the Russians were slightly underestimated. 😊
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10 out of 10 only confirms zero interception.
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The speed and agility of the Kh-22 make it invincible in the face of the Ukrainian air defense, according to the Ukrainians themselves. The Kinzhal is agile, hypersonic, and due to the plasma layer formed by the friction around it, invisible for radar. Still, some want us to believe that the same systems that fail to down even one out of 300 Kh-22's manages to score a 10 out of 10 on the Kinzhal?
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RU has some incredible washing machines powering these things...
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Make peace you fools.
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15 out of 10 kindzals were shot down by Ghost of Kiev .
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Ukraine claims 10 out of 10m hypersonic Kinzals intercepted? If you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you. Actually all 10 Kinzals were intercepted...by their targets
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From Ukrains report, Russia has already surrendered to Ukrain's forces!
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It's true that Ukraine shot down 10 of 10 Kinzhal. Here the detail : 5 with slingshot, 3 with bow and 1 with hand thrown stones, the last one goes back himself because he was scared.
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FROM THE NETHERLANDS. PUTIN, WE LOVE YOU AND WE LOVE RUSSIA.
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So a couple things about the Kinzhal, It flies it's path at high altitude during it's hypersonic phase to avoid dense air resistance. It also uses EW features that present RADAR afterimages and "decoy signitures" that can be difficult to distinguish rapidly from the real missile, and for a period of it's flight it can not easily maneuver and is covered in a RADAR absorbing plasma cloud. The fact that it closes the distance so rapidly is one of the biggest challenges to shooting it down. You need a density of air defense to have a launch in the correct placement for when you can a fire solution that will intercept it. The missile will drop from hypersonic speeds to super sonic and begin maneuvers and use satellite guidance and possibly some form of seeker. It simply isn't plausible to shoot down this missile with a small number of launchers reliably. Rumors are from supposed inside sources, that in the best case the likelihood of a successful interception is about 15% for 2 Interceptors. Ukraine may have shot down a couple when pairing the MIM-104 launchers with Israel's advanced rapid response Iron dome RADARs and telemetry systems. The true difficulty of intercepting the missiles is due to the shortness of time available for a firing solution and the current placement of launchers. You can't get around this fact. It is also confounded by the fact that the original RADAR systems paired with the Patriot systems were confounded by the decoys which is why Ukraine also got the number of missiles fired wrong. Truth be told, if it wasn't for Space based reconnaissance of Russian air fields and E-3 sentry patrols/AWACs. The on the ground RADAR units would be lit-up by their RADAR signatures and have far more limited coverage. NATO is very creative in trying to fight a "not-war" with Russia. Any bystanders can see that these are, in fact, acts off war regardless of whether Ukrainians fingers push the final button. the real problem for NATO going forward is the lack of availability of interceptors. 10/10 Kinzhals shot down is such as exaggerated joke of a claim to make anyway.
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Intercept a kinzhal? That's simply untrue.
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There is only one country that can shot down hypersonic cruise missiles : Russia. Simply because they are the only one who have hypersonic cruise missiles. Shooting down hypersonic ballistic missiles (multiple countries have them) is very difficult, close to impossible...unless it's Russia, because ballistic hypersonic missiles are far easier to down compared to hypersonic cruise missiles...and Russia already have the AD able to do it. Nobody else have this AD systems.
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Вообще ни "патриот" ни "ириска" не одной ракеты ни сбили In general, neither the “patriot” nor the “toffee” shot down a single missile
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I thank you so much to reports you give us. The way you report , giving details leaves no stone unturned. Surely thank you . At least now we know that American weapons are not superior . Russia has more superior weapons. May God be with Putin and Russia at large
