The 9,200mph Kinzhal – or ‘dagger’ – had been intended to be unleashed from a MiG-31 fighter jet on western Ukraine.
Telegram channel Cheka-OGPU said the launch failure was due to an ‘abnormal operation of the system’.
The military ‘out of habit had reported the successful defeat of all targets’, on the day the missile was supposed to have been unleashed on Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine.has said these weapons could penetrate both existing and any future missile defence systems It represents a humiliation for Putin, who has been the driving force in developing hypersonic missiles in Russia.
The Kinzhal was one of six ‘next generation’ weapons unveiled by the Russian president in a speech in March 2018.Two months before invading Ukraine, Putin said Russia was the global leader in hypersonic missiles.
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