'LIKE NEVER BEFORE' Russia Uses Nuclear-Capable Missile in Ukraine That U.S. Can't Stop

We are being led to a nuclear exchange with Russia because we are led by maniacs in Washington

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Russia said Thursday that it employed its feared Kinzhal hypersonic missile system in its latest attack on “Ukraine's military infrastructure,” which reportedly resulted in at least six deaths.

A Ukrainian air force spokesperson told Reuters that it was a major attack and “for the first time with so many different types of missiles.”

“It was like never before,” the source said.

The Kinzhal is nuclear-capable and can travel up to five times the speed of sound, or about one mile a second. It was believed Russia fired six of the missiles from high-flying MiG-31s. The New York Times reported: Launching the missile from a warplane at high altitude, instead of from the ground, leaves it with more fuel to use to reach higher speeds.

Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, told the paper that Ukraine does not have a defense system that can intercept these missiles. The report said Russia fired 81 total missiles in the barrage and 47 hit their targets.

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He said Russia launched its attack from various types of “aircraft and vessels of the Black Sea Fleet from all fronts, from three seas, basically – the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea.”

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“I cannot remember that many Kinzhal missiles being launched at once during this war,” he said. “The enemy does not have a lot of these missiles, we are talking about dozens (as per information from intelligence, they have up to 50 of them)... The enemy has also launched six Kh-22s, missiles of the most devastating capacity (they have 950-kilogram warheads).”

Russia says it has another hypersonic missile, the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, can fly at speeds as high as Mach 27, NPR noted.

The report noted that Dee Dee Martinez, comptroller of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, said hypersonic missiles “pose a new challenge to our missile defense systems.”

“The development and deployment of missile defense systems to counter these advanced threats presents unique, but surmountable challenges, which require further development and technology investments,” she said.

The Trends Journal reached out to the Defense Department to see if the U.S. has the capacity and did not immediately get a response.

Defense Department

The Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Space Force and Space Development Agency plans a launch of two interoperable prototype satellites to help track these hypersonic missiles.

“Those satellites will collect sensor tracking data to ensure dim targets, meaning cruise missiles, can be pinpointed from space, he said adding that if successful, that will be a new and important capability in hypersonic defense,” the Defense Department said in a statement from last year.