How dangerous is the Kinzhal missile?

Great content as usual sky, very well explained.

12:35 I don't know what kind of ordnance hit that ship, but watching the ship nearly jump out of the water was very impressive!

Your videos are very good!

Best explanation available anywhere.

Fantastic video - thanks

Well done ! Top shelf debrief .

Kindzal - air launched Iskander - INF compliant Oka.

Kinzhal has much greater capability against hardened underground bunkers than other types like cruise missiles.

Good explaination. More than just a mini documentary

Thank you Sky !

The updated Foxbat in black looks so siiick.

It's not a "true" hypersonic in the sense that it incorporrates evasive maneuvers and scramjet technology, but being a very fast missile traveling 3500 m/s makes it extremely difficult to intercept with most Air Defense systems. Not impossible, especially with a straightline trajectory, but diffuclt nonetheless.

Hi Sky, could you please make a video about the HESA Shahed-136 too? There is little info available about this drone on the web and most of them are totally wrong. I can be of help of course about this particular topic if you need any. Cheers and thanks for your great content.

If the Kinzhal is not Hypersonic because it can't maneuver at hypersonic, then the F-35 is not 5th gen because it can't supercruise. There are over 100 MiG-31in storage, Russia operated 100ish upgraded (BM model) interceptors, the K modification is executed on stored cells, not withdrawn from active duty interceptor fleet. The Hypersonic speeds achieve 2 goals: - Indetectable to current Radar tech. - Reduces reaction time: let's say it has a range of 1000km in quasi ballistic trajectory so most of the flight the missile is guided by Inertial guidance (which we know can already be very accurate, for most area targets). in terminal phase (50km) it slows down to high supersonic speeds on a high altitude flight (25-30km) to get optical terrain matching and Sat guidance (at mach 4 that's 20-30 seconds for trajectory correction), and then still dive down on the target at a Mach 5+ speed. it greatly reduces Air Defence reaction time, Radar lock will be lost once again and the maneuvers will be able to avoid any missile launched in the 20-30 seconds "slow" flight phase.

Thank you!

Nice information

this is an interesting strategy.

SKY congratulations on how much your english has improved.

It is quite an interesting weapon, however, as you said it has some drawbacks that may make it not as successful as some people think. But I think that an idea of air launched ballistic missile is quite interesting and definitely has some uses. I only wish it had bever been used in real combat, as with any weapon, but world is not always so pleasant

Hi thank you for the very interesting video I read somewhere that at some point of its trajectory an hypersonic missile becomes invisible to radars because of its speed There was also a technical explanation about plasma that i did not understand I wonder if this is true and when it occurs I guess that in the last part instead when the missile slows down it should be visible to radars There is something very fascinating about stealthiness to radars To be able to hit without being seen is something magic And this would provide an exceptional advantage Of course