Three days later, the Russian military reportedly launched a series of six Kinzhal missiles at Ukrainian sites the Ukrainians shot down five of the six. It was reported that the Kinzhal was specifically targeting that system when it was shot down.
On 6 May Ukrainians shot down a Kinzhal outside Kiev using a Patriot air-defense system, supplied by the United States just weeks before.
But just this month the world discovered that the Kinzhal was not immune. There is some dispute as to whether the Kinzhal qualifies as a true hypersonic weapon, namely, one that can fly faster than five times the speed of sound (Mach 5) while maintaining the ability to maneuver-a combination of features that supposedly makes the missile immune to existing countermeasures. The largest salvo was fired on 9 March 2023 as part of a barrage that included other missiles and drones. Another such attack came the next day, then more in April and May, and still more eight months later.
The first reported use of a hypersonic weapon in combat was on 18 March 2022, when a Russian Kinzhal missile destroyed an alleged underground weapons depot of the Ukrainian armed forces in Deliatyn.
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