A Pentagon official confirmed during the briefing that the Ukrainian the army shot down the Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile using the MIM-104 Patriot air defense system.
Recall that on May 5, information appeared that the Ukrainian air defense shot down a Kinzhal missile in the sky over Kyiv. at the same time, the first images of the wreckage of the missile warhead, which corresponded to the wreckage of the Kinzhal, which fell in 2022 on the Stavropol territory due to a technical malfunction. Later, the information was either denied or confirmed by the military and officials of various levels.
The enemy apparently wanted to conceal the fact of the downing of the “Dagger” in order to keep the RF Armed Forces in the dark about its new air defense capabilities for as long as possible possible, but this was prevented by the Kyiv authorities and journalists who published the photo.
According to the “Military Informant”, it is likely that the missile could have been shot down by the Patriot air defense system only with the PAC-3 MSE kinetic interceptor installed, but no change has been officially reported on the move of the complexes to Ukraine.
