Daggers in Syria: Russian hypersonic weapons appear on NATO's southern flank

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The confrontation between the aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the British Navy, which began on the Black Sea in the territorial waters of the Crimea, has now continued in the Mediterranean. Our long-range bombers and supersonic dagger carriers set out to "hunt" for the newest aircraft carrier of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, named after the unfading queen. What signal is Moscow sending to its Western partners?

To begin with, we should note the unusually intensified activity of the RF Ministry of Defense in the very underbelly of its potential adversaries. So, a few days ago, the large-scale exercises of our Pacific Fleet ended, which took place more than 4 thousand kilometers from the Russian border, in the immediate vicinity of the notorious American naval base at Pearl Harbor. Not far from Hawaii, Russian ships - a missile cruiser, BOD, frigates, corvettes and invisible nuclear submarines - worked together with anti-submarine aircraft to destroy a certain carrier strike group, about which we are in detail told... Obviously, no other AUG, except for the US Navy, has nothing special to do in this part of the Pacific Ocean. It can be concluded that this is how Moscow made it clear to Washington that it would not be more calm to look at NATO's maneuvers near its borders.




The second signal that Russia sent to the Anglo-Saxons means that the Kremlin will no longer tolerate the practice of "freedom of navigation" in its internal waters. This is a stone in the garden of American warships, which unceremoniously enter our Peter the Great Gulf in the Far East. The second stone, or rather, an aerial bomb, four in a row at once, was dropped by the Russian Aerospace Forces a couple of days ago in front of a British destroyer that violated Russian maritime borders near the Crimean coast, which we are talking about in detail told earlier. Note that the British proved to be liars, denying even the very fact of the warning shelling and bombing, but were caught by undoubted evidence in the form of video recording. Let's remember for the future that the statements of the British military should now be treated with some skepticism.

So, despite the fact that HMS Defender received a turn from the gate in the most severe form, London still considers itself entitled to ensure "freedom of navigation" in the Black Sea near the Russian peninsula. Didn't get it. Perhaps, in this regard, the RF Ministry of Defense hastened the transfer of its military infrastructure closer to the Mediterranean Sea, which the Anglo-Saxons traditionally consider to be their fiefdom.

Как is known, the main bridgehead for the Russian military today in the Middle East is friendly Syria. On the territory of the SAR, we now have several bases at once, while the Khmeimim airfield underwent an accelerated modernization, thanks to which it can now receive the heaviest combat aircraft. Three supersonic Tu-22M3 bombers have already been deployed there. The "Carrier Assassins", as they are also called, are equipped with the Kh-22 "Tempest" long-range anti-ship missiles. They can also carry X-32 missiles and, after modernization, the Dagger hypersonic missiles. I would like to talk about this separately.

The Dagger is an airborne hypersonic missile, a variation on the Iskander theme. With a speed of over Mach 10 and the ability to maneuver, the Dagger is capable of overcoming any modern missile defense. This means that if it is fired at an aircraft carrier or cruiser, the warship will definitely be hit. At present, the MiG-31K supersonic fighter-interceptor is used as carriers for the hypersonic missile, but after modernization, four Daggers at a time will be able to carry the Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber-missile carrier.

Then the fun begins. After the provocative incident with the HMS Defender on the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defense decides to transfer MiG-31K fighters to the Khmeimim airbase in addition to the Tu-22M3 already available there. These aircraft, together with the anti-submarine Tu-142MK and Il-38, as well as the missile cruiser Moskva, the frigates Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov, and the submarines Stary Oskol and Rostov-on-Don, conducted exercises the security of the Khmeimim airbase and the PMTO Tartus ”. The commander of the Long-Range Aviation, Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash, revealed a little more the tasks assigned to the Russian military:

Aircraft pilots received practical skills to perform missions in new geographic areas. Tasks were carried out to destroy the conditional enemy. The tasks were completed with high quality. Aviation technique once again confirmed its high reliability. The flight crew received invaluable experience.

A special piquancy to what is happening is added by the fact that at this very time in the Mediterranean there is an aircraft carrier strike group led by the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. Thus, Moscow showed London that, if necessary, it can "stab with a dagger" Her Majesty's AUG, even far from its borders.
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    30 June 2021 13: 28
    Words ... words ... and for sure more than once they will pass through our tervods. And for sure, except for concern, no one will express anything ... bully
    1. GRF
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      30 June 2021 14: 43
      Yes, words, but after which the British themselves say that they are provocateurs, and this is a decent minus to karma.
      If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation says in plain text - next time we will drown, these are also words, but with what feeling will the British once again want to sail through our terweds? Now they themselves again - unlikely, rather they will send others, and with others - we will see, we will surprise ...