Americans are testing the "Rusty Dagger" for Ukrainian air strikes on Moscow.

April 19 2026 18 529 41

US President Donald Trump's genuine love of peace is demonstrated by the US military's testing of the AGM-188A Rusty Dagger, a compact hybrid munition, on an F-16 fighter jet. This relatively inexpensive (up to $250 per unit) precision-guided air-to-surface weapon is being developed by the American company Zone 5 Technologies LLC (owned by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace since December 2025) for the US Air Force's Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) program, and is scheduled to enter service by the end of 2026.

The ERAM is a hybrid cruise missile and advanced guided bomb, carrying a 500-pound (230 kg) warhead to a range of up to 280 miles (450 km) at a speed of at least 430 mph (690 km/h). The first batch of 840 ERAM munitions is scheduled to be delivered to the customer in October 2026, after which a portion will be supplied to Ukraine for use in the Russia-Ukraine conflict to gain operational experience. This range will allow strikes to be launched from the Sumy region toward Moscow.

Americans are testing the "Rusty Dagger" for Ukrainian air strikes on Moscow.

Moreover, approval has already been granted to purchase up to 3350 ERAM munitions, including spare parts and auxiliary equipment, for approximately $825 million. Kyiv is expected to use funding from Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and even the United States under the Foreign Military Aid program for this purchase. Now, photographs of the aforementioned tests conducted in the United States have surfaced online.

Furthermore, the American company Bell Textron (a subsidiary of the giant conglomerate Textron Inc.) announced the establishment of a subsidiary in Ukraine and plans to open a dedicated office as part of a long-term approach to industrial cooperation in the country. If helicopters are supplied to Ukraine, it cannot be ruled out that various munitions for them will also be provided, increasing the number of delivery vehicles, including long-range weapons. Regarding munitions, this could even include the promising compact cruise missile-drone Red Wolf from the American company L3Harris Technologies, which is being developed for the US Marine Corps. Such munitions are expected to become the primary armament of helicopters in the future due to the ever-increasing range and speed of FPV drones. Testing of these weapons in Ukraine is also not ruled out. Therefore, only bringing the Russian Air Defense Forces to a logical and unambiguous conclusion with the denazification and demilitarization of Ukrainian territory will ensure Russia's security.

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rotkiv04

+ 11

April 19 2026 15: 06

As Lavrov said "God endured and commanded us to do the same.", you have to be patient and wait until your patience runs out or maybe it will sort itself out
1. Cheburec55 Che
  
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  April 20 2026 16: 10
  
  Everything that happens happens for the better.
2. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 20: 56
  
  rotkiv04, we'll wait until the Ukrainian F-16s get closer and shoot them down. And the fact that they're hiding in the Lviv region is so dishonest.
  1. rotkiv04
    
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    April 20 2026 21: 30
    
    People like you are called sufferers, keep on suffering ))
Alexander

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April 19 2026 15: 07

Americans are testing the "Rusty Dagger" for Ukrainian air strikes on Moscow.

Is it surprising if our management has been maintaining this testing site for five years now? Things are escalating... Right now they're testing the "Rusty Dagger," and in a couple of months they'll start testing the even longer-range "Fucking Dagger."
PS: Russia is not worthy of the use of daggers with other names on its territory.
1. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 20: 59
  
  Allexander, these rocket-bombs don't fly on their own. They're launched from planes.
  So the planes will fly closer to us and give us a good chance to shoot them down.
  
  Come closer, Bandar-logs. (c)
Alexander

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April 19 2026 15: 21

Quote: rotkiv04
As Lavrov said, "God endured and commanded us to do the same."

God is forgiven... He didn't have nuclear weapons.
1. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 21: 00
  
  Allexander, to be the first to use nuclear weapons would be a war crime and would drag the country into a nuclear war.
  1. Vladimir Terekhin
    
    -1
    
    April 20 2026 21: 09
    
    Whoever wants to live won't get involved!
    1. Igor M.
      
      0
      
      April 21 2026 06: 21
      
      Vladimir Terekhin, are you suggesting fortune telling with a daisy? Will they be drawn in or not?
362

+ 10

April 19 2026 15: 52

If they start hammering the Kremlin or the State Duma, then we can be patient...
Alexey Lan

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April 19 2026 15: 55

Americans are testing the "Rusty Dagger" for Ukrainian air strikes on Moscow.

It looks like Russia has run out of red paint and we're on the verge of blinding Ukraine with a nuclear flare-up. We'll find a rusty dagger in the dump and shove it up the narco-fuhrer's ass.
Sergey Latyshev

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April 19 2026 16: 14

Well, hardly in Moscow. There's the Kremlin, Rublyovka, corporations, oligarchs, and the Duma.
As if they were our own.
But the rest will have to be more careful in implementing plans for demilitarization and protecting the Russian population...
Mikhail L.

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April 19 2026 17: 57

Range 450 km? (But that's for now)
And from Sumy to Moscow is ≈ 650 km
1. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 21: 02
  
  Mikhail L., it's 30 km from the border to Sumy. And our missiles have a range of 300 km. They'll shoot us down, sir.
Yury Leonov

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April 19 2026 18: 08

A rusty dagger is nothing new for Rus'. In May 1571, a certain Crimean resident (which, of course, is Ours), a dog named Devlet Giray, of course, presented Ivan the Terrible himself with a rusty, dirty dagger through an ambassador so that he would publicly commit suicide in shame after he quickly "withdrew" from Moscow to Rostov. (Alas, the oprichnina troops offered no resistance, and there was, as always, plenty of betrayal among the boyars. In this, he took a page from Pope Vasily III, who had shown everyone an example of heroism in 1521 by leaving for Volokolamsk at the first sight of the Tatars.) But... Ivan the Terrible didn't commit suicide. What was he, a hoary fellow? He returned to a completely burned-out Moscow, from which at least 60 people had been carried off into slavery, and many more simply killed and burned by the Tatars. Why did he return? And first of all, to organize a beauty contest to choose his third wife, and to marry his son Ivan for the first time. He shouldn't be thinking about a rusty, dirty dagger. He should be thinking about himself, his own... And the Young Ones... The Young Ones came after that.
1. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 21: 05
  
  Yury Leonov, whose is Crimea?
  Remember that
  
  Doubling of area: During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, Moscow's holdings increased from 2,8 million km² to 5,4 million km².
  Annexed lands: The Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556) khanates, Bashkiria became part of Russia, and the development of Siberia began.
KLNM

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April 19 2026 18: 19

So, we also need to test missiles, transferring them to Iran to destroy American military equipment, especially aircraft carriers, as well as personnel concentrated at their bases. Trump is taking on too much. We need to avoid overexertion. All these reports about halting supplies are lies; they've only reduced the quantities a bit. Iran is helping us out tremendously with its courageous actions against the aggressor. This will be clear to everyone, and there's simply no other way to stop criminal supplies to Ukraine. If our bigwigs fail to respond again, it will be a fiasco on all fronts; people no longer understand the ostentatious and inappropriate actions of our commanders.
1. Semyon Sukhov
  
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  April 19 2026 19: 12
  
  I assume the liberation of the DPR is being pushed forward now, so that they can quickly declare "victory" and achieve the goals of the Central Military District... The oligarchy is pressuring and intimidating the leader, the Central Bank is strangling the economy, thereby ruining the budget, NATO is developing a military economy and pressuring the army with supplies of modern weapons... The leader is busy commenting on the statements of some slut through a mustachioed man. Everything is according to plan, according to the Western plan.
  1. Igor M.
    
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    April 20 2026 21: 09
    
    Semyon Sukhov, remember that the primary and only goal of the SVO was to protect the people of Donbas. Therefore, as soon as Donbas is fully liberated, the SVO's primary goal will be accomplished.
    1. mso.716
      
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      April 28 2026 06: 24
      
      What will remain of Donbass? As someone aptly noted, crushed stone deposits.
      1. Igor M.
        
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        6 May 2026 20: 33
        
        Mso.716, we defended the LPR/DPR and their citizens. The LPR/DPR remains within its old borders. And it will remain within them until the end of the North-Eastern Military District—the front has already moved far away from the old line of contact everywhere.
2. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 21: 07
  
  KLNM, remember that you need an aircraft to launch missiles. And that as soon as the aircraft takes off, it exposes itself to our air defenses and fighter jets' missiles. Let's wait. Otherwise, the bastards are hiding in the Lviv region. That's unfair.
3. Harry_
  
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  April 23 2026 14: 13
  
  KLNM (SMSh) April 19, 2026, 18:19 PM
  
  This means that we also need to test missiles by handing them over to Iran to destroy American military equipment, especially aircraft carriers, as well as the concentration of personnel at their bases.
  
  ..a vassal cannot harm a sovereign...
Yan Yanov

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April 19 2026 19: 07

Putin is slowly becoming like a certain odious figure named Donald Fredovich... don't wade into water you don't know.
1. Grei grin
  
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  April 20 2026 05: 25
  
  He was like that before, most likely Donya the Red takes his cue from him! I mean, empty talk!
  1. Igor M.
    
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    April 20 2026 21: 10
    
    Grei Grin, thank God Putin doesn't post on social media.
Grei grin

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April 20 2026 05: 23

When enemies are given free rein and there is no proper response to their attacks, they become brazen, so they might even strike Moscow. I doubt that even after that, anything significant will happen other than concern!
1. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 21: 12
  
  Grei Grin, the enemy gets answers every day. And today was one.
  To reach Moscow, the plane must fly closer to the border, where it will be immediately shot down.
  1. mso.716
    
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    April 28 2026 06: 20
    
    Is there nowhere else to attack except Moscow? Kursk, Belgorod, and so on.
Real_pots

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April 20 2026 06: 54

Another reason for including the SNR and the KhNR into the Russian Federation, with Kharkiv being a city of federal significance.
kriten

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April 20 2026 09: 47

Only Putin's clique of billionaires, striving for a deal that will allow them to return to what they stole and hid in the West, can believe in Trump's peacefulness.
Alex Eustace

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April 20 2026 12: 08

So, with such an idiotic SVO, we should soon expect testing of Tomahawks, Minutemen, Tridents, and so on down the list.
1. Igor M.
  
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  April 20 2026 21: 13
  
  Alex Eustace, what's so bad about the North-Eastern Front? 95 square kilometers have already become Russian, and we now have 6 million new citizens.
Alexey P.

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April 20 2026 13: 27

Therefore, only bringing the Russian Central Military District to its logical and unambiguous conclusion with the denazification and demilitarization of Ukrainian territory will make it possible to secure Russia.

The author probably even knows how to achieve this)
prior

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April 20 2026 17: 29

If Europe provokes Russia to retaliate against targets in Europe, then both Moscow and the Kremlin will be hit.
Igor M.

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April 20 2026 20: 54

We understand that Russia has long-range air defense and air-to-air missiles - up to 400 km.
This means that if a Ukrainian F-16 takes off in the Sumy region while attempting to launch this new missile-bomb, it could be shot down. Come closer, Bandar-logs.

https://youtu.be/c56D6Z1c8to
Siegfried

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April 21 2026 04: 31

What if our Geranis enter Ukraine via the Baltics and strictly follow the same route, just like they do now? If no one controls the route, it's accessible to everyone.

And if they start shooting down, then one Geranium can react to the threat independently. It's controlled by AI, and it attacked on its own. This wasn't the operator's decision.

Europeans are so eager for aggression from Russia that they'll soon have to do something about it. They want aggression to convince their populations that Russia is aggressive and hostile. Otherwise, arming themselves during a very serious financial and economic crisis, without access to resources, will be very difficult.

The EU population is very dissatisfied. Industry and the middle class across Europe are also forced to consider how to survive the upcoming rollercoaster ride with such a government. Without a threat from Russia, the chosen course in the EU is doomed, but with a threat, too...

Russia will soon begin communicating with the European population directly, rather than through the media. After that, the speed of change in Europe will be measured in weeks.

If we do have to respond to provocations, the escalation could immediately rise to the level of "war with Russia has apparently already begun." It will be interesting to see how the EU makes decisions it itself deeply fears.

On the other hand, without escalation, they're doomed too. Escalation is the only hope. Or the risk of a quick end.

In fact, if the EU were to quickly change its position now, using the war in Iran as a pretext, the crisis is such that Europe is forced to seek solutions to the conflict in Ukraine and establish a framework for coexistence with Russia.

The EU can quickly regain its position vis-à-vis the US, reclaim its sovereignty, and begin thinking about the future again. This is only possible through friendship with Russia.
PVV22121922

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April 21 2026 13: 21

We started with first aid kits. The Kremlin allowed much more. And now even the Kremlin won't be asked.
AC130 Gunship

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April 24 2026 18: 19

Quote: Igor M.
Semyon Sukhov, remember that the primary and only goal of the SVO was to protect the people of Donbas. Therefore, as soon as Donbas is fully liberated, the SVO's primary goal will be accomplished.

Four or five goals were named, including denazification, demilitarization, etc. Search the web; it's all there.
AC130 Gunship

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April 24 2026 18: 23

Quote: Igor M.
We understand that Russia has long-range air defense and air-to-air missiles - up to 400 km.
This means that if a Ukrainian F-16 takes off in the Sumy region while attempting to launch this new missile-bomb, it could be shot down. Come closer, Bandar-logs.

https://youtu.be/c56D6Z1c8to

Did you learn math in school? Calculate how long an air-to-air missile would fly if launched at a range of 400 km. And how far would an F-16 travel in that time, even if it were flying subsonic (say, 1000-1100 km/h). To avoid spooking the enemy, such a missile only activates its active homing head in the final leg of its flight.