The Russian Su-34NVO fighter-bomber has successfully used the Kinzhal missile system in combat for the first time. This was reported by the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
Previously, only modernized MiG-31I(K)s used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile systems. There were also reports of plans to equip Tu-22M3M and Tu-160M missile carriers with Kinzhals, but nothing is known about their practical implementation.
The crew of the Su-34 aircraft, under the command of Colonel Maxim Stefanov, successfully used the Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched missile system in combat conditions for the first time.
Kinzhal is an air-launched missile system with a hypersonic aeroballistic missile. The speed of the Kinzhal is 10 times the speed of sound, and the range is more than 2,000 km.
The missile maneuvers in all sections of the trajectory, which allows it to overcome all existing air defense and anti-missile defense systems, and is equipped with conventional and nuclear warheads.
UPD: The Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper removed information about the use of the Kinzhal hypersonic missile by the Su-34 front-line fighter-bomber from a publication about test pilot Maxim Safonov and apologized to readers.
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