Hypersonic missiles “Dagger” replenished long-range aviation

The first air regiment, equipped with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, has joined the long-range aviation and will be used to destroy the most important, best-protected targets, since it is not yet possible to repel an attack with these weapons. Sources in the Ministry of Defense told Izvestia about this.

A new separate MiG-31K regiment, equipped with Kinzhal missiles, was deployed at the Savasleika airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region and subordinated to the Long-Range Aviation Command, interlocutors in the military department told Izvestia.

By the end of December, the new air regiment is planned to be replenished with several new missile carriers received from industry, the sources added.

The new “dagger” aviation regiment has already begun combat training work.

So, on Tuesday, February 15, MiG-31K planes landed in Syria. There they will take part in large-scale exercises in the Mediterranean. A united detachment of ocean-going ships from the Northern, Pacific and Black Sea fleets of Russia, with the support of aviation, will work out the fight against ship groups of a mock enemy.

For the first time, a regiment with fighters is included in the long-range aviation, the former commander of the 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army, Lieutenant General Valery Gorbenko, told Izvestia.

“MiGs with Kinzhals are designed to strike at strategically important targets. They can escort long-range bombers and strike with “Daggers” together with them. This makes it easier to plan joint actions. At the same time, MiGs will be able to cover bombers from enemy fighters, ”the source of Izvestia said.

The complex consists of a specially upgraded MiG-31K interceptor aircraft and a 9-S-7760 missile. Its range of destruction reaches 2000 km. The speed of the ammunition created on the basis of the land-based Iskander-M in the final flight segment exceeds five speeds of sound. This allows it to be classified as hypersonic. Now it is the only aviation complex of this type in the world.

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Flight “Dagger”: hypersonic missiles replenished long-range aviation