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Yesterday, we introduced to you a major Russian interceptor fighter MiG-31, and at present, the Russian military has a tactic in the application of this fighter to let the MiG-31 mount the "dagger" hypersonic missile and carry out penetration operations.
In the planning of the Russian military, the main target of the "Dagger" hypersonic missile is very clear, that is, the large surface ships of the imaginary enemy.
Why is Russia so sure that the "dagger" hypersonic missile can deal with large surface warships?
The main reason is that the "dagger" with its excellent performance can make the U.S. anti-missile system lose its effect, it can achieve flexible orbit change during the flight, the trajectory is not fixed, every time the trajectory is changed, the U.S. anti-missile system will have to recalculate an interception point, change several times, the U.S. anti-missile system will become tired of coping, and the interception success rate will be greatly reduced.
What is more worthy of our attention is that the United States not only does not have the ability to effectively intercept Russia's hypersonic missiles, but also the United States' own hypersonic missile experiments have repeatedly failed, and there is still no hypersonic weapon that can be used so far.
In addition, the Dagger hypersonic missile was improved from Russia's land-based Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile. The shape of the "Dagger" missile is similar to the slewing body shape of traditional ballistic missiles; the head of the missile is conical, with a total length of about 7.7 meters and a bullet diameter of about 1 meter, which is not a huge volume.
Even the miG-31, a heavy interceptor fighter, can only carry one, but if the MiG-31 is paired with other platforms, such as the Tu-160 strategic bomber
The "Dagger" hypersonic missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers, can use MiG-31 fighters or Tu-160 strategic bombers as a launch platform, and the range of 2,000 kilometers with the miG-31 maximum flight speed of Mach 2.83 is a great threat to surface ship targets.
In the course of actual combat, the "Dagger" missile can receive signals from multiple platforms such as aircraft, warships and satellites in real time after launch, and cooperate with the radar seekers they carry to locate and lock enemy targets, such as large aircraft carriers or other targets at sea, and at the same time, in the process of flight, they can independently achieve a leap, and after reaching the target, launch an attack from a commanding height.