Ukraine is getting better at intercepting Daggers and Zircons — Weapons

Journalists emphasize that 88% of successful interceptions of hypersonic and ballistic missiles is an extremely high rate.

Russian hypersonic missiles, which the Kremlin calls a “superweapon”, are far from invincible. In recent weeks, Ukrainian air defense was able to intercept most of the Daggers launched by Russia and even one Zircon missile.

The British publication The Telegraph writes about it.

The publication emphasizes that 88% of successful interceptions of hypersonic and ballistic missiles is an extremely high indicator. For comparison: for the entire time before that, the level of interceptions of the “Daggers” was only 25%. Ukraine is gradually improving the use of Patriot systems, which demonstrate high efficiency.

Features of missile vulnerability

“Daggers”, although they can exceed Mach 5, slow down to Mach 1.9 in the final stage of flight, which…