communication battle around the Russian Kinjal missile

The Russian Kinjal missile has the distinction of being hypersonic, that is to say being at least five times faster than the speed of sound. In this area, the Russians are ahead, it is a source of pride for the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin called this missile a‘”indestructible”. Except that the Ukrainians claim to have succeeded in neutralizing one of these missiles. Unacceptable, unthinkable, for the Russians, who deny en bloc, both television and the Russian Ministry of Defense.

A damaged Patriot anti-missile battery

What is certain is that this is the first time with the war in Ukraine that a hypersonic missile has been used in a theater of war. The Russians say moreover that it is one of these missiles which would have made it possible to destroy an anti-missile battery Patriot, a jewel of American technology, just delivered to the Ukrainians. These latter denied in turn, except that they returned to their remarks by indicating that a Patriot battery would have been damaged but that it would continue to function, indicates the journalist of France Télévisions, Luc Lacroix.