MiG-31 multirole fighter with the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. File photoMOSCOW, May 30The UK does not have the means to intercept and destroy Russian ballistic missiles, including the Kinzhal missile system, an international affairs expert from the University of Leicester told the Daily Express. Professor Andrew Futter. According to him, the lack of defensive weapons can make the country extremely vulnerable in the event of a «strike».
"We do not have the ability to intercept and destroy Russian ballistic missiles", Futter explained.
In turn, analyst Alex Lord said that the Russian «superweapon» is within the «possible strike» on Great Britain.
"These missiles are launched from MiG-31K aircraft, which is especially important — a number of them were in the Kaliningrad region before February 24th. There they are within reach of the UK", Lord said.
The authors of the article concluded that the United Kingdom could be «completely defenseless» in the face of «terrible» Russian weapons. In March, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov reported that Russia had fired Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast at a storage facility for Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical missile systems, as well as large fuel depots in Mykolaiv Oblast. military operation in Ukraine on February 24. According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and on March 25 they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.