Russia plans to upgrade its "Iskander" and "dagger" missiles according to the current feedback from the Ukrainian war.
9K720 "Iskander-M" combat tactical missile system is put into use.Number system
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shohgu recently visited the "Mechanical Design Bureau" company in Coroloma, "Iskander" and "dagger"The missile system needs to be improved based on the experience of the armed forces.Since he did not explain the improvement in detail, he could only guess the possible direction of these weapons improvement.
In 2006, the Russian Army version of the 9K720 "Iskander-M" combat tactical missile system was put into use.The range of the system is 150 to 500 kilometers.From 2010 to 2011 to 2020, the Russian army began to re -armed all missile tourists to equip these systems.
"Iskander-M" carries two very different missiles, namely the cruise 9m728 and the ballistic 9m723, which has completely different performance.They are used for completely different goals and have different appearance and quality.They share the 9K720 system with a range of 500 kilometers.
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" Dagger "aviation missile system was used by the Russian Air Heavenly Armys Su-34 and MiG-31K long-range aviation aircraft.Its components include a hypersonic ballistic missile developed by the 9M723 "Iskander-M" advanced technology.The range of this hypersonic missile can reach 2,000 kilometers. Combined with the carriers combat radius, it can strike any goal of the European continent within a few minutes.The maximum flight speed is ten times the speed of sound, which is the current world record of the aircraft missile system.
Dagger under the MiG-31k body
Russian President FlaKimir Putin first publicly acknowledged the "dagger" on March 1, 2018.He announced that the system began a battle on duty at an airport in the Southern Military Region on December 1, 2017.Today, the Russian Air Heavenly Army has more than two fighter squadron carrying the "dagger" missile.
Both systems are actively deployed in a special military operation in Ukraine.High-speed "dagger" and 9m723 "Iskander-M" ballistic missiles are used to attack Ukrainian military complexes, including headquarters, warehouses, air defense systems and production facilities.9M728 cruise missiles are used to target the equipment and facilities, transportation hubs, air bases and locations of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Iskander-K cruise missile 9M729, which can be understood as land-based "caliber"
The uniqueness of ballistic missiles and air -firing ballistic missiles is that the modern air defense system cannot guarantee to intercept it.Therefore, they are almost invincible, very accurate weapons now, and the response time is very short -from receiving the order to the target of hitting the target for a few minutes.How can these are the most powerful missiles in the world?There are many ways: enhance flight characteristics, modify combat equipment, introduce new carrier platforms, and develop new capabilities for developing confrontation missile defense systems.
Powerful explosives
9M723 and "Dagger" are loaded with various warheads.Through the explosive head to destroy the reinforcement and hidden goals by penetrating concrete work and hitting the goals under the ground.The traditional breaking samurai warhead inherits tactical missiles such as "dots", weighs 482 kilograms, and the empty terrain has a hit area of 1-2 hectares, which is suitable for vehicles and infrastructure in empty areas.The box -type warhead (or a bundle warhead) can carry 54 ammunition, scattered at a height of 900 to 1400 meters, and then exploded around 10 meters, affecting hundreds of square meters.
However, there is still opportunities for further development; in order to use in non -nuclear conflicts, it may develop more powerful warheads for missiles such as "Iskander" and "dagger".Its weight may be as high as 1,000 kg.The range of land -based missiles equipped with a new type of engine is still 500 kilometers, but the power of explosion will double.
MiG-31 interceptor equipped with a dagger missile.Russian Ministry of Defense Picture
Increase the range
The scope of the combat range of "Iskhandel" and the previous applicableThe "Limit and the short -range missile Treaty" is related to.This file determines that the maximum range of land -based missiles is 500 kilometers.However, given the recent composite solid fuel improvement and the United States withdraw from the "Guide Treaty", the 9M723 missile can install a new engine, so that the range of land -based missiles can reach 1,000 kilometers, while maintaining a bullet load at least 500 kg.
New Launnel
According to official newsEssenceIt may include strategic bombers such as Tu-22M3M and Tu-160M, which can attack many targets from all directions at the same time.
It is extremely difficult to counterattack such attacks with modern Western air defense systems.Therefore, they may be used to destroy each others air defense system.Although the deployment of "dagger" on a slower carrier platform is technically feasible, this will reduce the range; this effort may be meaningless before a strategic bomber fleet has a shortage of carrier platforms.
Overcoming missile defense
Modern missiles can be intercepted.The computing system of the air defense complex can calculate the ballistic of the hypersonic missile.If they are driving along the line without mobility, anti -missiles can intercept them on their schedules on their trajectory.
When the target missile starts, the problem appears.The 9M723 complex of "Iskander-M" and the hypersonic "dagger" have this ability.In addition, these missiles can use bait to transfer the attention of anti -missile systems and the entire air defense system.Although this technology has been put into use, there is still room for improvement.
In addition, it can be imagined to design a smart sight system for a batch of missiles. Some of the missiles attack the newly identified air defense system, and the remaining targets are attacked.Since the 1980s, such improvements have been applied to the guidance algorithm of anti -ship missiles.Using similar premises, the "Iskander" and "dagger" groups may swarm to and attack the complex goals equipped with defense systems.Todays degree of technological progress enables missiles to attack this kind of attack, which is unable to cope with any modern missile defense system.
