The production of hypersonic Dagger missiles – the pride of the Russian military – has been called into question. 133 electronic components in this missile system are manufactured in the United States, Japan and Ukraine and due to sanctions their supplies have been suspended
On March 18, the dagger hypersonic missile system destroyed a military depot in western Ukraine with an accurate strike, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry.
The cost of each such strike ranges from $ 500,000 to $ 1,000,000, and American and European experts see it as a demonstration of strength and an attempt to intimidate NATO. By the way, according to military experts asked by The Moscow Times, Russia may soon be left without the famous “Daggers”.
In an address to the Federal Assembly in 2018, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia has developed a new hypersonic missile system capable of speeds of up to 12,000 kilometers per hour and carrying both nuclear and conventional ammunition. “Dagger” can overcome all air and missile defense systems due to their unique ability to change their flight and trajectory, the range of the missile is 2000 kilometers. For such powerful features, they are beginning to be called “death machines” capable of reaching targets on the territory of even distant NATO countries.
Authorities initially insisted that there were no analogues of these missiles in the world, but later acknowledged that the scientific and technical basis for the creation of the Dagger was the US research program to create the ballistic missile Skybolt.
Americans have been working on it since the 1950s, but then hypersonic missiles did not go into mass production. A former military man and now a professor at the Academy of Military Sciences on condition of anonymity, he explains that the Russian development is rather plagiarism.
“The Dagger is most likely a slightly modified copy of the American Skybolt ballistic missile, which never went into series production. If details of the production are revealed, it will become obvious that the Dagger is an American-borrowed development,” he explained. .
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