“Daggers” travel at 15 times the speed of sound and cannot be shot down by any available air defense in the world, claims a former admiral from Croatia
Hypersonic missiles, which were even used at the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine and have been talked about for several years, are indeed a weapon that is changing the face of modern warfare. Details of their operation and strategic significance are almost out of the public domain, but in military circles they are well aware of the effect of this type of means of hitting targets and why there is real reason for fear in the Pentagon and even in China.
Information about hypersonic missiles was recently given in an interview by the retired admiral from Croatia Davorin Domazet, who is one of the best analysts of the situation at the moment, as he clearly understands the context in which everything is happening related to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. And context is everything, writes Alex Traynor of TrendCompass.
Domazet is the only military analyst who, when systematizing the events, takes into account the historical context of the Western financial oligarchy, its Venetian roots, its migration to Amsterdam and the founding of the Dutch Empire, as well as its subsequent relocation to London, where it remains cemented in the undead Great Britain empire. According to the Croatian admiral, the greatest enemy of humanity is the so-called “Western occult oligarchy”. This given the fact that Croatia is a member of NATO and, like Poland, a Catholic Slavic nation that shares Warsaw’s Russophobic views.
Russian hypersonic weapons
In 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Russian Federation’s new hypersonic weapons. “Hypersonic” means that they reach speeds of Mach 5 and up, or in other words – 5 times and more the speed of sound, which is about 1234 km/h in air. At the time, the West did not take this fact seriously and thought that Putin was bluffing. And in fact, Russia turns out to be the only country that actually possesses such missiles, and not of one type, but of three types – Zircon, Dagger and Avangard.
Admiral Domazet explains why these weapons are changing the face of war. “During the First World War, tanks were the vehicle that changed the conflict. In the Second World War and until now – it was aviation. In this sense, aircraft carriers have become the most important strategic investment since then. Now precision hypersonic missiles render them useless. Moreover, even the most advanced anti-ballistic missile systems that both the US and Russia use, which are located along the Poland-Romania axis and the North Pole-Kaliningrad-Crimea-Syria axis, respectively, are very effective, but only against projectiles flying towards its target at speeds up to Mach 3.5 or 3.5 times the speed of sound,” he says.
In this sense, Russia’s Daggers make the aircraft carrier groups that the US likes to parade around the world easy targets. The missiles travel at speeds of Mach 12-15 and nothing in the arsenal of any country in the world has the ability to stop them.
The example is relatively recent – about a year ago, at the height of the conflict in Ukraine. The first Dagger strike was intended to destroy a strategically important ammunition depot. It itself was built in such a way that it could withstand a nuclear blast – buried 170 meters deep and protected by several layers of reinforced concrete.
The dagger flies at an altitude of between 20 and 40 kilometers, with a maximum range of 2,000 km. When it reaches horizontally over its target, the missile abruptly changes its trajectory to vertical and accelerates to Mach 15, gathering enormous kinetic energy that only adds to the projectile inside it. The first strike in question destroyed the depot with a single missile, sending a clear signal to US military circles:
“We can sink all your aircraft carriers”
In fact, the Dagger was created for this very purpose, explains Admiral Davorin Domazet. If it is capable of blowing up an ammunition depot 170 meters underground, what can it do to an aircraft carrier? This question is probably being asked in Washington, too, and rightly so. According to the Croatian former admiral, neither the West nor China possesses such weapons.
But they also have their problems. Such is, for example, the temperature on the surface of the rocket body that they develop during flight. This can cause it to literally disintegrate in thin air. So far, however, Russia seems to be the only country that has managed to develop such materials that are capable of withstanding such stress in such a way that the trajectory of the missiles can be controlled, and with a fairly high degree of accuracy.
Western intelligence admits that Russia possessed about 50 Dagger missiles, of which only 9 were used in 1 year of war in Ukraine. Last week, a total of 6 such missiles were launched at once, and this is also a message, the admiral explained. “The US has a total of 11 carrier strike groups. Of these, less than half are active, while the others are in dry dock for maintenance. The firing of a total of 6 daggers at once last week, in military translation, says the following: “We have the ability to sink all your aircraft carriers at once,” says the analyst.
In fact, Russia has the capacity to produce about 200 such missiles per year, and relatively recently has a way to “deliver” them to their targets anywhere from planes, ships and even submarines.
According to military analysis, the development, finalization and approval of such weapons in the West will take about another 10 years, and until then – Moscow seems to be winning the arms “race” for now. In this sense, the only “useful move” of the West to reach some kind of parity now seems to be the escalation of the local conflict in Ukraine into a global nuclear war.
According to a conservative estimate, in such a conflict, about 1 billion people will die and in reality no one will be victorious. Who would take this path of escalation? Hopefully no one.
Translation: Georgi RUSCHEV
