Russia’s new hypersonic missile: impossible to shoot down? | About That

Ukrainian forensics experts claim Russia attacked Kyiv with a Zircon hypersonic missile. Andrew Chang explains how the technology works, what makes it so hard to shoot down, and why - if the claim that Russia fired a Zircon into Ukraine is true - the attack could represent a severe escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this video showed an incorrect map of Ukraine and Russia territory. That portion of the video has been removed.
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[@maxinfly]

Damage of the building looks more like air defense missile. The bigger missile would just destroy part of the building, not just break windows and cause a fire

[@michal5615]

Exactly, half of such a building would be destroyed. And ordinary people are "eating" this nonsense from masmedia like a CBC that Zircon rocket has hitting it 😂

[@1vor12dokus8]

indeed, a Zirkon carries half a ton of explosives, if that thing strikes a un-armored structure, the building is GONE

[@Theguyinthefez]

@@1vor12dokus8 Highly doubt it carries half a ton of explosives given the requirements of having to go hypersonic in the first place.

[@angeltensey]

@@Theguyinthefez internet claims around 300-400kg of payload (of what explosive?). not half a ton, but enough to destroy or deal very major damage to this kind of a building. what we see on these pictures is more like a suicide drone or missile debris.

[@CKent84]

And it would not be necessary for Russia to use an expensive hypersonic missile to strike a residential building! They have enough other weapons in their arsenal to do that.

[@john_doe_not_found]

Nobody fires a hypersonic at an apartment block. The missile is worth more than the building. Unless there was a high ranking general in that building. A 30' missile hitting a thin brick wall at 10,000kph would go right through the building and the back side of the building would have a massive amount of damage. That kind of damage does not show up in the video. Instead it has the damage foot print of a slower moving object.

[@Finness894]

I'm surprised that they left the comments turned ON. Especially on a report THIS BAD!

[@pnwdrifter5680]

Ruzzia has a history to striking civilian targets with every other missile they have. So your logic is wrong.

[@john_doe_not_found]

@@Finness894 CBC is a PITA when it comes to comments. Any story that involves the government, you can bet the comment section is turned off. Heaven forbid we can vent at our elected shmucks in a CBC video.

[@pnwdrifter5680]

@@SilverforceX we know you are a liar

[@1LastMile]

Yeah my guess is they are hitting the homes of military and government officials and Ukraine doesn’t report it because they don’t report any casualties

[@vaultdweller966]

Bro it's clearly an air defense failure...

[@ASS_ault]

Just like in Belgorod

[@player1GR]

True

[@Brandon34098]

russia has been firing converted air defense missiles at Ukraine for a while could be one of those impact points and they didnt do their research to find where the real impact point is

[@SeminarioMAE]

he's not your bro

[@p4radigm989]

My NEWS told me Russia ran out of ammo over a year ago, so this can't be a Russian missile.

[@ashleygoggs5679]

nobody said russia was running out of ammunition.

[@sonofagun3866]

@@ashleygoggs5679you just climbed under a rock after 2 yrs bozo

[@plasticfoods22]

​@@ashleygoggs5679 perhaps you were living under a stone

[@AnirbanDChoudhuryadc]

Russian reservists fighting with shovels - BBC - 6 March 2023 🤣🤣

[@ashleygoggs5679]

@@plasticfoods22 no, perhaps you are over exaggerating what was being said. Nobody said russia was out of ammunition, they said russia was running low on artillery ammunition. This is further evidenced by how they was getting deliverys of said ammunition by north korea. You dont get ammo from north korea if your stores are inundated.

[@P3RF3CTD3ATH]

It wasn't a hypersonic missile. It was a hypersonic shovel.

[@tomjull1106]

"Hypersonic washing machine " Ursula Von Dercrazy

[@P3RF3CTD3ATH]

@NoleFam-xz1eb I told you. They're not hypersonic missiles. They're hypersonic shovels. They weren't expecting those.

[@nikolaitoptchiev315]

yea with washing machine chips in that hypersonic shovel what are these kiev authorities smoking thinking its a missile

[@noahz3429]

maybe even a sub-sonic one

[@CallmeBotakaOrc]

The warhead was actually a toilet

[@sebastianlup]

Zircon have a 3-400kg warhead. That building wouldn't stand up after the hit.

[@avadhutagita3741]

the building wouldn't have stand if the missile had pierced it at an angle, it's like a hot knife through butter, even without a warhead, just with its weight and speed

[@mrtee3477]

You're crazy, if it comes at 9 times the speed of sound you don't even need a warhead. The kinetic energy alone would do much more damage than that.

[@Evan_Bell]

​@@mrtee3477No. Mach 9 equates to a specific energy 4.7Mj/kg. TNT has a specific energy of 4.184Mj/kg. Many military explosives have RE factors greater than 1. For example, comp B, C4 widely used in military explosives have RE factor of 1.33. This means a specific energy equivalent to Mach 9.73.

[@ogbonnasam9997]

That’s how you know that was done by Ukrainian AD system

[@ASS_ault]

@@mrtee3477 you do realize that hypersonic missiles slow down?

[@Serx1079]

When comments are better content than video...

[@ogbonnasam9997]

Facts

[@Calvin704704]

In comedic sense, the video is better

[@2primarh991]

This is when air defense falls on a building. Russians don't shoot at houses. You can’t just post the image of the fall of Ukrainian missiles, or they’ll shoot you at the front. Here's American democracy in Ukraine. I was born and live in Odessa, Ukraine.

[@sportfoxes345]

Russian Bot Humor is the worst

[@corylombard]

I was just thinking the same thing...

[@MrjackieG]

I have a $300 plasma cutter. The torch reaches 40,000 degrees F. Four times hotter than the sun. If it really was a Zircon it would have left a hole clear thru the building 120 in diameter just from the kinetic power of the impact travelling at that speed. And that is without any warhead on it.

[@kerocar3004]

what your cutter and torch have to do with rest of the message?

[@user-ke2mw6mi5s]

The plasma is formed is only while its flying at supersonic speeds. when lands, the plasma disappears almost instantly upon impact, so it doesnt have time to burn through anything

[@yastyman]

You don’t believe that this building looks like it was hit by a hypersonic missile? You don’t believe that a rocket that costs as much as a fighter jet was wasted on someone’s socks on a dusty balcony?

[@ivanposinkovic3169]

🤣👍

[@CallmeBotakaOrc]

It was a shovel

[@Worselol]

It was hit by Ukrainian short-range anti-air missile.

[@user-xg4dw8wq1p]

Zircon is designed to destroy ships. Naturally, if he had gotten into this house, he would have pierced right through. And yes, it’s one thing to destroy a multimillion-dollar ship, but it’s not profitable to spend money on a concrete box and an S-300 missile

[@willkuerlich]

Yeah Ukraine could not handle their own shovel

[@rogerkant3696]

Hypersonic missiles are incredibly expensive so they must be targeted at economically and strategically important targets. We are talking 10’s to 100’s of millions per missile. An apartment block? Really

[@j.james-88]

@NoleFam-xz1eb You say it as though french legionaires are bionic-nuclear powered super soldiers. No dude. That's ridiculous. Funny how all these Russia scare stories are coming out at EXACTLY the same time. Almost as if they were choreographed by the cia's propaganda wing to get a bill passed in the house to send billions more of our $$ to ukraine...

[@konstantin1028]

"Hypersonic missiles are incredibly expensive" - they are expensive for you!!! And if we have a rocket, an egg, or 10, 100, 1000 eggs, I'll give you for free. What do you think? In dollars? We don't need them. And the factory will just work for a salary, and for a week for free. They will load it for free, another team will bring it for free, the railway is free, and whoever needs it will be sent to the address for free. Tell me the address? London, Washington, Paris, Berlin...

[@RUTHLESSambition5]

They can't show the damaged patriot

[@SportZFan4L1fe]

It's expensive in the West. Not in Russia.

[@Valerius123]

If you already have the infrastructure build to mass produce these missiles they more or less cost as much or as little as you want them to. Especially if you're one of the only ones in the world that can produce them.

[@Kayzef2003]

No way would that building be standing if it was hit by a zircon....even without a warhead.

[@ockertwessels649]

Bravo. Rods from God concept.

[@ASS_ault]

You know nothing of physics

[@Brandon34098]

if it was traveling that fast it would over penetrate not transferring enough energy into the building to take a chunk out of it, russias current hypersonic missiles require to slow down to maneuver so it wouldnt hit at max speed, other comments mention a warhead upto 500kg which would have at least took most of the building with it however it likely is a converted s300 that russia has been launching fairly often

[@ockertwessels649]

​@@Brandon34098What about the us navy experimental rail gun's projectile (5000 mph) and anti armor wolfram kinetic penetrators then? (Zircon, 7000 mph and far greater mass & surface area.)

[@Brandon34098]

@@ockertwessels649 it was canceled because of the lack of damage, poking tiny holes in ships wasnt worth the investment and very high maintenance, if its worth returning to then they will after electro-magnetic tech catches up

[@andrewcornibert7891]

Hypersonic shovels This tech is from another dimension

[@ivanposinkovic3169]

I watched the report of the Russians regarding this particular case. They say that any Russian hypersonic missile hit this building the whole building would be wiped off the face of the earth. They believe that from the damage on the building it was a Ukrainian air defense missile that missed the target and ended up in the building.

[@derekl190]

bullshit

[@soshiucheong]

Very probable

[@viswasrujith8426]

​​@@derekl190 No it's true cause if it's a Hypersonic the building would have been leveled. It has such tremendous kinetic energy to cause destruction without ammunition itself. In India we have Hypersonic missiles so we know it's affective abilities.

[@rdsc.455]

​@@viswasrujith8426 And that fast Missile system BRAHMOS developed in collaboration with Russia.

[@jaypolas4136]

@@derekl190 Nobody fires a hypersonic at an apartment block. The missile is worth more than the building. Unless there was a high ranking general in that building. A 30' missile hitting a thin brick wall at 10,000kph would go right through the building and the back side of the building would have a massive amount of damage. That kind of damage does not show up in the video. Instead it has the damage foot print of a slower moving object. Damage of the building looks more like air defense missile. The bigger missile would just destroy part of the building, not just break windows and cause a fire

[@naturalmystics-kd9vt]

That building were not hit by a hypersonic missiles and only have minor damage you are clueless to what hypersonic missiles destruction really is

[@ladybug2x2y22z]

A lot of people has no idea what PLASMA is and temperature it has. Lets say cosmos is plasma. Sun is plasma.

[@richgilmour5924]

​@@RunForest13that isn't how they work lol

[@pippip8744]

Canadian State Media, just reverse everything they say and you have something close to the truth.

[@disconductorder]

the ICC warrant for 'kidnapping children' tells you all you need to know about war crimes in Ukraine If they had evidence of Russian strikes on civilians, they would not need to stretch the truth of child relocation as kidnapping. If they even thought of charging Russia for missile strikes on civilians, they could not ignore the countless non-stop intentional Ukrainian strikes on civilians

[@slava0071]

young chinese guy who studied in mid-level US so called university cluelessly descanting about things that are so obvious for average educated Russian... OMG - this building would've been wiped out after such strike !

[@iliestefan5262]

I wanna call it dumb propagand, but it's more like Beavis and Butthead show. Lol.

[@kaleeysmith8801]

cbc propagandaa

[@marcosvidal4940]

even for the untrained eye that building's damage doesn't look at all like a hypersonic missile

[@rahn45]

"Russia's army is on the verge of collapse, their troops are armed with inferior, defective, useless equipment." "Russia will invade NATO if Ukraine falls." Make it make sense.

[@lizanderson1669]

[@Finness894]

The world needs a boogie man so that people live in fear. By the way ... let me know if you hear where I can get a hold of one of their Shovels. I've heard they are AWESOME!

[@James-hm9on]

Yes the MSM has a hard time getting the story straight LOL . A year ago Biden said russia had lost now he says they are winning ?

[@Cs-px5uy]

😂 everybody loved a good joke

[@IAMAVIKJORDAN]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@djordjelezajic8435]

Ukraine shot down more Kinzhals than what Russia had made so far.😅

[@sidharthcs2110]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't the zircon that hit that building. It probably costs more than the entire appartment block

[@disconductorder]

it probably hit somthing else but Ukraine has to blame Russia for all their expired S300 crashes or just didnt happen and Ukraine is trying to pull your heartstrings with fear

[@TarasZakharchenko]

nobody says that they were aiming there. Probably electronic countermeasures changed the trajectory. Or the rocket was damaged by AA.

[@sidharthcs2110]

@@TarasZakharchenko That's not the only reason. There were reports of a Wearhouse that got struck by a zircon. The kinetic energy alone would've done much more damage to that building. About a year or two ago , a brahmos (cousin to P800 onyks supersonic cruise missile) was accidentally launched from India to Pakistan. It landed in a field , the kinetic energy alone made a huge crater

[@TarasZakharchenko]

@@sidharthcs2110 true, we don't know how it exploded. Surely the damage should be greater if it is direct hit

[@ASS_ault]

​@@sidharthcs2110there were no such reports

[@notshane3827]

That's a weird looking shovel

[@vasylpenderetskyi3371]

After hitting the ground at Mach 8 speed, how is it possible to find some parts of missile

[@FromRuinRise]

Oh, you’re not supposed to think or have rational thoughts, then it all makes sense

[@markpensarn593]

Because its crap .

[@SpectralonWhite]

Because it only has bigger debris when shot out of the sky. When it hit ground only peddle size hard alloys survive. Enough to confirm.

[@mykeprior3436]

It doesn't. That's basically a railgun.

[@robertp6390]

@@markpensarn593 You mean Russia sends stink bombs?

[@globalterroil3208]

Trust me; that _block house_ was not hit by the _Zircon_ missile (not even an _Iskander_ or the _Kinzhal_ ). ;-)

[@jetli740]

100% if it hit by a hypersonic missile the kinetic energy along would flatten those block of flat

[@junerayvinluan6235]

its only a kaliber missile

[@TarasZakharchenko]

But why? So called "Kinzhal" carries greater payload than Zircon. So I am already not trusting you.

[@vjetar2822]

​@@jetli740 Thank you!

[@ogbonnasam9997]

It’s a failed AD

[@user-th7gd7ge4p]

I'd like to make one at home. which wash machine brand would you recommend to get the chips from?

[@SashaArsic]

And the best comment award goes to you sir 😅

[@ladybug2x2y22z]

I recommend ones that Ukraine has, that where Russians get those chips😂

[@user-th7gd7ge4p]

thanks @@ladybug2x2y22z . do you think I could get some shovels there, too?

[@User_J9000]

European

[@ailinofaolin8897]

I here Hotpoints are the ticket for hypersonic missiles.

[@scamboz]

Why you misinform your audience? Russia would never attack civilian infrastructure. These destruction comes from air defence rockets of ucrain. why russia should waste such perfect and expensive weapons 😂

[@James-hm9on]

Russia has historically been a leader in rocket technology, for over ten years the only way to service the ISS was on a Russian rocket.

[@markpensarn593]

Yes in an old bath tub ..SpaceX is 40 years ahead .

[@TheKrawallkurt]

This is so funny......i wont comment! You SIR! ^^

[@user-vx5vo3gs2w]

Not bc russia was ahead, but bc US didnt want to use their own spaceships☝️

[@ImaStupidNobody]

​@@user-vx5vo3gs2wWhat people don't understand about Americas hypersonic missile program is that it's taking long because they want multiple versions with different warheads and different sized hypersonic missiles released at once instead of just 1 or 2 new hypersonics. Also it's possible America is working on a faster high hypersonic missile faster than any country today with very long range, multiple mirv warheads that are also glide vehicles with decoys, missile jamming and forced disarming transmission codes to enemy missiles and defenses that will disable anything in the missiles location with stealth and 5g, 6g, 7g+ support and guidance and detection with AI protection and firewall. Also America has a starwars laser missile defense system in orbit that destroy nuclear warheads when they are most vulnerable. Soviet union went bankrupt because of Americas missile satellite defense.

[@James-hm9on]

@@ImaStupidNobody Russia should have joined NATO but then who would need a hypersonic rocket ?

[@Godspeedysick]

Where are the shovels???

[@Joelmonterrey]

Ohh you Russians are still promoting that, huh? Another one of your ships was promoted to submarine from a much smaller country who doesn't have a Navy.

[@izil1fe]

where are the intact passports ?! xD

[@doctorjivago5081]

Russia - the last bastion of humanity, truth, no-hypocrisy, right sexuality, Orthodoxy and honor!

[@merocaine]

That missile was not found at an apartment building, if it was hit by a zircon, the whole block would be gone, not a burning apartment. Most lightly the building was hit by a spent air defence missile, this happens a lot, and usually results in minor damage like this. Actual missiles have huge war heads and do massive damage.

[@ASS_ault]

It is not a minor damage

[@thebaldidiot]

Looking at previous reports on Ukrainian/Western media there are 2 points I would make ... 1) any time Russia shot a hypersonic missile Ukraine was shouting that they are hitting civilian infrastructure(apartment blocks), but we saw when a Russian missile hit any building half of it was destroyed, or warehouses properly destroyed. and that Ukraine was trying to shoot them down, they failed, and those were falling back on apartment blocks and damaging them. Looking at this apartment block where 1 apartment was hit and the rest only windows broken I doubt it was a Russian missile that left only scratches... 2) Ukraine already advertised the famous Patriot missile system how 90%+ accuracy and efficiency it has, even shooting down a hypersonic missile with a very big PR stunt, so why is everyone and mostly Ukraine worried?

[@a64738]

It is clickbait "journalism" and it is not news... Russia have been wasting these horrible expensive missiles on civilian targets for 2 years now. Only difference is that now they are able to shoot some of them if not most down before they reach the targets.

[@iam_joshua_bcxvii]

Hey, did they really get the zircon they were talking about last year? I can't remember. 😅 If they did, it's funny why they're so worried now. 😂

[@sfalhilsajd]

It's kinda sad that common people still don't recognize the damage between a cruise missile and SAM. Where did you come across 2S1 btw?

[@frederick1411]

They are worried because Ukraine has a small number of patriot missiles that can only cover a very small part of a very large country. Also when it comes to the damage, Russia is firing many different kinds of weapons at Ukraine, not just ballistic missiles. including many different size drones.

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

2 kinzhal were fired all the way from Russia onto kiev and they damaged/destroyed a patriot system. Ukraine claimed to have shot them down before a video was released of the patriot shooting dozens of missiles before being hit twice and that was the last time we heard of that patriot even the US admitted that it was "damaged". No western air defense can shoot a hypersonic, ukraine just spreads lies and bs....

[@sabprogroup8623]

so this is also made out of washing machine part and shovel propeller?

[@benny5299]

Russians took washing machines from ukraine and built hypersonic missiles

[@user-bo1fi1un3c]

Of course! And when the centrifuge mode is turned on, the rocket starts flying in circles, which is why it is so difficult to shoot it down.

[@IBoughtTerrariaFor67p]

That damaged building was air defense gone wrong

[@professorx2607]

I'm not a hypersonicologist....but if that building was hit by a russian hypersonic missle called zircon everything in that scene would be obliterated.😮

[@user-lw2hu6gx1f]

If this was hypersonic rocket, there would be a huge crater, this was something else on video. Raw kinetic energy from "Zirkon-blast" adds alone almost 10fold warhead yield. Building would not be there.

[@davidste60]

No it doesn't. They wouldn't bother with a warhead if that was true.

[@TarasZakharchenko]

It could go through the building and explode after

[@ashleygoggs5679]

people seriously dont understand kinetic energy. If kinetic energy caused explosion people would explode after being shot 🤦‍♂

[@alvaro.piner1917]

​@@davidste60its true when you have estudied engeneeing. Above 7 times the speed of sound, the explosive charge is not necessary to sink a ship, in example. To blow an underground anti nuclear bunker, both kinetics and detonation are used

[@alvaro.piner1917]

​@@ashleygoggs5679you dont understand kinetic energy and its exponential scale. The blast that extinguished the dinosaurs was caused by a stone hitting the earth at hypersonic speed.. The energy liberated was the equivalent to thousands of nuclear bombs

[@Internetbutthurt]

The damage to the apartment blocks, like the vast majority, are from errant surface to air missiles fired by Ukrainians. It is so common the Ukrainian regime made it illegal to post footage of SAM launches. Some russian missiles have been intercepted and then crashed but they were not intended for civilian objects.

[@armonwp]

I agree. That's the most likely scenario.

[@ImperativeGames]

That's what happens when you are desperate and the only missiles you have left are from 1980s USSR, 35+ year old

[@CMB21497]

It may be from AD missiles, but they don't make it illegal to post footage because they don't want people to see the corresponding damage created. They do it because the launch site can be geolocated pretty easily and targeted. Most AD weapons have self destruct built into the missile as well.

[@TarasZakharchenko]

So why it is common? Because you are saying so?

[@Noqtis]

@@TarasZakharchenko I mean... you want to argue, Ukraine isn't trying to shoot down Russian missiles targeting their military infrastructure?

[@OleDiaBole]

Mach 9 melts steel in seconds. It needs ceramic coating. On impact there is so much kinetic energy, you dont need warhead. And they espect us to belive parts of Zicon or Kinzhal were found... Or that building hit by it, was not evaporised, but just had fire. My God.

[@prodigiii712]

That’s is a Urkainian air defense missile. A Russian cruise missile would’ve a much greater damage.

[@digimaks]

Funny, they trying to claim it was not even cruise missile but HYPERSONIC! LOL! Hypersonic missile that Russia used previously to destroy an underground nuclear bunker at 100meters under ground near Lviv !!!

[@thanos1952]

I thought Russia was using shovel?😅😅

[@ivanronin8209]

Hypersonic ones yes ! 🤣🤣🤣

[@powerkingez9682]

That building looked like it got hit by a suicide drone not a missile whit a 400kg payload lol the windows are still intact and the outside barely has a dent in it

[@benny5299]

maybe a drone that carried the missile :D

[@mxdmta4421]

@@benny5299 LOL

[@TarasZakharchenko]

@@mxdmta4421 maybe the rocket went through the building

[@mockingbbirdkilla1771]

@@TarasZakharchenko Maybe the Ukrainians have spacetime bending technology and simply vanished the missile into a military production warehouse in Kiev?

It’s a flying shovel? Maybe, a dishwasher?

[@damg2992]

As I understand, if it would hit a building, it would probably destroyed it, so the damage is most likely for debris, or from air defense rockets, as it was in Poland, or somewhere before.

[@richardrestall8592]

This guy is a good reporter. He should visit Donetsk and investigate how 14,000 civilians died under AFU fire since 2014. I remember a time when the phrase 'journalistic integrity' did not inspire laughter.

[@DS-zr8pw]

Those so-called civilians were those Russians who were transferred to the Donetsk after the original citizens were deported from the region and forced to leave their homes in Ukraine.

[@stevanrozic4638]

100% right

[@JeffPar50]

Bro Russia has literally occupied Donetsk City since 2014. Russian troops have been stationed there this whole time. Very convenient of you to leave out that part.

[@rh7018]

14,000 includes 6,500 pro-Russian separatist fighters, 4,400 Ukrainian fighters, and 3,404 civilians.This number includes non-combat military deaths, as well as deaths from mines and unexploded ordnance. The vast majority of the deaths took place in the first year of the war, when major combat took place before the Minsk agreements.

[@danquarterman]

@@JeffPar50 Any proof? I'd like to see it.

[@Max_Jacoby]

0:16 it's just a fire inside the building. Look closely, even glass is undamaged in surrounding apartments. What kind of missile can't break glass?

[@ImperativeGames]

Hypersonic missile 9m long with 400kg of explosives, obviously

[@mockingbbirdkilla1771]

Ones powered by the farts of Putin's personal army of unicorns.

[@sickboy8682]

Flat earthers will get far more warning. 😂

[@johnrule1607]

At first you said radar could not track the missile because of its plasma halo, but then you said radar would not be able to detect the missile early because of the curvature of the earth, implying that, except for that curvature, radar can detect and track it. Huh?

[@-UNKNOWN-13]

The plasma stealth is not new. The US was investigating it back in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The idea that it cannot be tracked it just nonsense.

[@TheHallucinati]

It's almost 100% certain that Russia wouldn't be so generous as to waste such expensive missile on some flat in a lowrise. Another clue is just how limited the damage is. If this building was hit by explosive ordnance traveling at 8-9 times the speed of sound - at the very least - the middle section would have collapsed completely and much of the remaining building would be pulverized. These missiles were designed to sink aircraft carriers!! The very fact that any large enough parts needed to ID the missile SURVIVED ought to be next to impossible. What the damage looks like is either 1. What happens when Ukraine fires an expired S300 missile at a Russian missile, and it lands short of the intended flight path. Or 2. Damage more consistent with Russian or Ukrainian GRAD rocket going astray. The rest - is typical scaremongering, likely based on yet another desperate Ukrainian PR campaign. Try the old "chemical weapons" charge. Worked with Assad huh, you one-trick ponies in Washington? What? It didn't? What a shame. Still, try it again (like Monty Python's19 times before that).

[@robertp6390]

Brits seem to have confirmed with Ukraine that it was the low flying hypersonic missile.

[@alexanderbelov6892]

2. Kyiv is at least 500km away from location where it can be hit with ground-2-ground missiles. So Grad can be safely excluded.

[@marcusonesimus3400]

You appear to credit Mr. Putin. and Russia by extension, with full rationality. Isn't that going a bit far? Do you think that a man with a reputed fortune of 200 billion dollars, whose personal interests are blended with those of the Russian tate and the Russian oligarchs, would be a stickler for budgetary restraint? Who knows? Of course you might be correct, in which cause I find your analysis of the physical facts more persuasive than anything else. Not that a country should EVER be seen as an extension of a single individual's egomaniacal propensities. That would be grossly unfair to Russians who display integrity and bravery in the face of oppression.

[@mortvald]

@@robertp6390 Oh the Brits did? well we must trust them then

[@TheHallucinati]

If one wants to waste such an expensive prototype on a militarily insignificant, non-naval target which one's experts cannot survey later, nor study damage, ignoring prudence and logic - then I'm sure one can. However, should there be a malfunction during the flight and should your enemies (as consequence) recover the missile mostly intact (the way they recovered Russian unexploded glide bombs), I'm pretty sure that it's something that even the man rumored to be that wealthy would have serious indigestion over. As far as Putin's rationality - I have few reasons to doubt it. The way he has been acting so far is rather consistent with an old-school politician from the Political Realism standpoint. I may not like his other personality traits, but I won't claim like some other Western media that he has "gone mad" or is prone to flights of fancy. I also doubt that he presides over tactical conventional missile launches or picks types of missiles that will be used personally. I also have gross doubts that Putin is more important than a country's geography (and in this case-geology) at deciding the direction of Foreign Policy. I'm actually of the opinion that there is an equally good chance that another president in place of Putin would start invasion of Ukraine just the same. Read the current CIA director's book, - does he know a lot of Russian politicians that don't view NATO as existential threat? It may not be fair to Russian individuals and some people's (however wrong) beliefs in Agency or Free Will, but reality is most often - just as mercilessly unfair, - something Milgram experiments demonstrated many times over. @@marcusonesimus3400

[@AbidAli-bo8sv]

I like how Andrew took the claim of Ukrainian officials with pinch of salt, since you can't verify the news, see it as alleged claim. Also, as others pointed out, how could that expensive piece of weapon be used on that build and with very little damage? The whole apartment building would have been collapsed if that missile had hit the building. Good reporting.

[@ashleygoggs5679]

No it wouldnt, it depends entirely on the size of the warhead. The speed of the missile dosnt make the explosion worse, speed only effects a projectiles penetration length. the fast your go the further you travel, kinetic energy of the missile adds nothing to the lethality of the warhead unless you timed the penetration and fuse perfectly to blow mid way through the building, but even then it can be done with a conventional missile with a hardened penetrator making the kinetic force of a hypersonic pointless. Overall the kinetic energy of the missile doesnt do anything to its lethality only in how it stops the enemy reacting to it once its detected.

[@juliohidalgo811]

The damage show at the beginning is minuscule, most probably caused by air defense, a cruise misile like a kalibir or tomahawk would have collapsed that part of the building, a zircon, khinzal or sink would have collapsed the entire block,.. Already failing at the start of the video... how to take serious the rest will be hard.

[@TarasZakharchenko]

it could go through the building and explode, or it may be hit by AA and leftover parts of it could hit the building

[@emilstefanov4623]

For sure the footage you showed is not from hypersonic missile. At this speed it would have such a kinetic energy that it would cause much larger damage even if it didn’t have a warhead .

[@TsiRoadkill]

Wait I thought ukraine was winning?

[@marchurnik]

Who said that ? The Ukraine hold the line and tries to ware out the Russian troops. But without US supply and better far reaching weapon systems it will be unpossible.

[@ebrimajabbi5054]

The zircon missile is not new, in fact the zircon missile is older than the khinzals

[@BooYaa253]

Yeah but it's also very different. It can launch underwater for example. Development of Zircon was way more expensive and more difficult. Kinzhal is just it's baby

[@jeanvaljean9293]

Final operational clearance was last year... First flight 2016 Khinzal is just an air version of the Iskander and is only a ballistic missile (meaning fast but flight path is predictable)

[@ebrimajabbi5054]

@@jeanvaljean9293 yes but can't be shot down for now, I don't know about the future.

[@YuriiTemnikov]

@@jeanvaljean9293 Yeah - predict the flight of the "Dagger"... We all saw in that famous video how Patriot tries to “predict” it, frantically firing ALL of its missiles into the sky. Not that it would help him...

[@ailinofaolin8897]

​@@jeanvaljean9293The Kinzhal has been reprofiled, new guidance, new tail section with control surfaces, it's a modified Iskander with the added benefit of a Mig31s inertia upon launch and not wasting fuel in a ground launch.

[@DEE-qu5mc]

I don't quite understand, why would it be a severe escalation if they attacked by firing a hypersonic missile? They've already fired multiple hypersonic missiles.

[@qpmkro]

Oh no, weren't they running out of missiles 2 years ago?

[@angrydad1907]

Only had 3 days left in March 2022. Must of made new ones with washing machines and toilets.

[@ivan200804]

The interceptor missile most likely hit the apartment building from a Ukranian anti-air system, not a cruise missile. This missile can carry up to 700 kg of explosives, which would probably flatten such buildings.

[@thewindoo]

Orc troll so sad

[@Muonium1]

I really don't know what's more astonishing, the incredible levels of cluelessness in this piece, or how VERY proud they are of their "reporting" here. This is why no one with an IQ above room temperature bothers with corporate legacy media anymore and why the cbc in particular is such a complete joke. The best thing about this how they don't even mention sonic booms at all. Do you how incredibly intense a shockwave is formed by an object traveling at MACH EIGHT in the troposphere is? Yet no reports of sonic booms or broken windows all along the hundreds of miles of ground track under the missile's flight path. Yeah that's some top notch reporting there, cbc. Real Pulitzer winning stuff here.

[@X9xredgkoa]

Lmao this one cracked me up

[@71aldin]

Damn that hypersonic shovel is sure fast.

[@mitedupev7956]

That wasn't hit by zircon. Zircon even without a warhead with that speed would had erased few floors from that building, that's probably a AA missile

[@CuttinBlade]

Never underestimate your enemies

[@heinrichkleist3473]

....or over-estimate them either. 😄

[@markpensarn593]

Unless it's Russian 😅...Still fighting like 1939 vs Finland ..Mincemeat Brigades until the Enemy falls back to do a deal ..

[@ccrider3435]

@@markpensarn593 Canadian conservatives wont understand you.. as russia is all conservative now, they think its golden.

[@vanjamenadzer]

@@markpensarn593 While Russia takes a lot of casualties, so does Ukraine and Russia simply can afford more losses, as bad as that sounds.

[@thebroketraveller9601]

@@heinrichkleist3473wouldn’t overestimating them be a good thing in warfare lol you’d prepare better, expect the worst, and then be likely surprised and relieved when they don’t live up to your expectations ? This comment seems wrong to me truthfully

[@doctordilanka]

There's no need to waste your time watching this video. The conclusion is literally the same as the beginning, "We Don't Know" You're welcome, and thanks for wasting my time.

[@VandaleighIndustrial]

Defund, absolutely useless waste of money

[@taekwondotime]

You could say that about EVERY video by the CBC. Surprised the comment section is still open. (Wait for it.) They'll close it.

[@Nathan-rt5vj]

God you guys are miserable

[@mmoxam6963]

Welcome to CBC 😂

[@user-on2eq7eh4d]

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[@captainbuggernut9565]

Doesn't matter how fast it goes. If you can track it, you can shoot it down.

[@brellosjanos1022]

You have to admit that the impact characteristics and damage to buildings are clearly not due to explosion, but rather to debris impact.

[@souvikdey6648]

Look like an interceptor hit in that building

[@MissesWitch]

it's amazing how many pieces of the missile survive

[@ogbonnasam9997]

It’s a lie.. believe ukraine at your own peril

[@philippesails4973]

Can you change the heading at at which angle when you fly at Mach 2, 3, 4…? Think? Predecessors of the zykron (kinjal & co) have been said to be interrupted?

[@mikesuch9021]

Sounds like a low flying terrain navigating missile when a little to low and couldn't pull up before impact.

[@TarasZakharchenko]

Often russians have old elevation maps and those maps did not reflect new tall buildings, sometimes that was a cause of hits into civilian buildings. Not the case however. The building looks 30ish years old. Here rocket could go through the building and explode or just some electronic countermeasures worked, or firmware bug.

[@balajikannan7393]

Clouded logic. Would it be effective to use a hypersonic missle to shoot a building? Even if it is true, the damgage is very minimal. Won't you think so?

[@benny5299]

yea, looks like shallow damage, look at hamas 60-80kg explosive missiles what they do to the houses in Israel, this doesnt look like hypersonic at all lol

[@TarasZakharchenko]

I doubt that the aim was the building but radio-electronic countermeasures could play their role. Or...just firmware bug

[@digimaks]

Plus it's enormously expensive for such cheap useless target.

[@yvoncyr]

Well Well, I could smell PANIC.

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

Made me laugh. They are so scared and so paranoid. Imagine having schizophrenics ruling you....that's what living in politically-divided America is like.

[@peetersgustaaf270]

That's not a zircon , look at the debri , its the debri of anormal rocket of the sky defenders rocket.

[@vitd8567]

It’s good that people understand that nowadays there’s nothing on TV except bullshit

[@brendan9698]

Do a metallurgic test on the debris. Like you said hypersonic missiles get toasty, you can't build one out of your standard metal. You should also get the hot ( softened metal ) to distort differently depending on the metal temperature at detonation. Remember most detonations are designed to expand, not heat.

[@robertp6390]

You sound like professional metal missile guy. You at the Skunk Works?

[@brunoonraedt3401]

At that speed there isn't much left, it evaporates with the impact

[@4dbullshitpatroll6]

There has been 2 hypersonic kinzhal missiles caught by smart phone enroute in Ukraine. They definitively exist.

[@vitalys9986]

Is it practical to build fleets of aircraft cariers, they are very expensive and huge targets with a massive red circle on them for these types of missiles.

[@gstar2112]

Excellent presentation. He didn't over feed information to show how intelligent he is. Clear, precise, and straight to the point Well done, sir

[@Mao_tse_tung]

In like 2010 i seen something flying at night that looks like a triangle with a blue plasma like cloud around it. It was over pennsylvania

[@tylerdurden3722]

The Ukrainians say they've never been able to shoot down a KH-22 missile. Plus there's the upgraded KH-32 Why use a a ridiculously expensive Zircon missile on inexpensive targets when there are other missiles that can do the same 100% of the time.

[@Finness894]

Good questions. Makes you wonder WHY this news show couldn't think of them.

[@felipe-vibor]

Maybe testing it in real battle situations is the answer. Just like Russia also allowed Iran and north Korea to test their systems in real war conditions.

[@DieGottesliebe]

the markins are not laser made, it's electric pencil gravings ...

[@weblitera]

hitting a residential building with minor damage looks more like a mistake than a self-guided missile

[@dosdannys]

In another word, when Zelensky told Putin: "Screw you", when Putin asked for Ukraine Neutrality, well, it was a HUGE MISTAKE !!

[@jptrainor]

They were reported to have used Kinzhal missles long ago in the war. Kinzhal is a hypersonic also, of a different variety.

[@AnP865]

Kinzhal isn't really a hypersonic missile. It can go 'hypersonic' speed, but so could the V1 rockets in WW2. A true hypersonic missile can manouver at those speeds. It's really just a ballistic missile launched from a plane.

[@pennyhardaway7491]

@@AnP865 Kinzhal performs evasive manoeuvres before terminating at the target. Patriot cannot shoot it down. Pure fantasy. No proof supplied by Ukrainians.

[@davidste60]

@@AnP865 V1 never went hypersonic. Kinzhal apparently does manouver, like the variant of Iskander missile that it was developed from.

[@Desire123ification]

Only as a test: Since the crater was small, only kinetic force was used; there was no explosive.

[@pnwdrifter5680]

How do you know it was a test? Did Pisskov tell you?

[@mmike422]

You have a great point didn't think if that, given damage area was minimum.

[@ramadaani]

And they risk the undamaged parts of the mussile to be collected? I dont think so.

[@danross395]

Russia is well past that point

[@myopicthunder]

Lol

[@hakimmouissat1093]

I think they catapulted a USSR tank and therefore it was undetectable.

[@mikesuch9021]

Looks like the hypersonic scramjet from Edwards in in the 90s. It went by so fast. Out at China Lake. By the time we heard something on the ground. All we saw was a thin white smoke trail. And puffs of smoke every 1/4 mile or more. Don't know why the sound was so faint compared to a F-4 or F18. The smoke trail looked much higher than the I've ever seen out there.

[@Gman-109]

One thing I didn't see mentioned was that the plasma cloud that is blocking inbound radar, will also be blocking the outbound radar and likely IR sensors on the hypersonic weapon, meaning that hitting moving targets is out, and only fixed INS locations can be targeted.

[@jaysonkmendoza]

They are hard to detect by radar. Though AAA defence systems are fairly complex and mix multiple detection methods. A problem is can the AAA system detect it with enough time to react in a meaningful way, and can they get a target grade lock on it. Detection doesn’t mean you can target. That is how stealth works since you can see them but not shoot at them until it’s too late.

[@Gman-109]

@@jaysonkmendoza Yes I understand that detection doesn't automatically mean tracking, what I''m talking about is that Zircon's own sensors will be blocked by the same thing that is making it difficult to detect and track.

[@Internetbutthurt]

We dont know how these weapons work as they are state secrets, so we dont know what type of course correction they have.

[@davidste60]

@@Gman-109 - plasma doesn't block all frequencies. High frequencies get through, and that is what most missile seeker radars use.

[@djordjelezajic8435]

Zircon is fired from the ship, Iskander from the surface ( ground), and Kinzahl from the air,( plane) but it is a similar missile with similar range and capabilities.

[@jop4691]

Zircon is completely different from the Iskander an Khinzal. Zircon has an actual RamJet or similar propulsion that allows it to travel at a much lower altitude while still maintaining speed. Iskander and Khinzal are very advanced rocket powered missiles.

[@digimaks]

Iskander is NOT hypersonic. They are not similar at all.

[@jop4691]

The Khinzal is basically a modified Iskander made to be fired from a supersonic launch platform. IE Su 34, Mig 31 and soo Tu 22 and Tu 160. They are very similar@@digimaks

[@nad829]

what ever russia claims, expect it to be at least 4 times the actual thing, if they say they lost 10k men, they probably lost 40k, if their missile flys 10 times the speed of sound expect it to barely make it to 3x the speed of sound and so on

[@fluffyminecraftpigs]

can someone explain why this video got fact checked to say that the channel is from canada lmao

[@johnvoorhees2331]

So at that speed, does the plasma make it magnietic?

[@danross395]

What happens to a magnet when it gets hot? It looses it magnetic field so no.

[@user-qh2rv9pn8r]

@@danross395 Същото е и с металите..

[@rsasssakspp]

Zircon is build for expensive targets I dont think so they would have used it.

[@marcusonesimus3400]

That's assuming that they intended to strike this particular target. I've seen it suggested that the missile is influenced by magnetic fields, so that its guidance system may not be infallible. I have to plead ignorance myself. The Russian brand of State terrorism does not require precision in targeting. they want to impress on the population that no one is safe, which was already known anyway. Frankly I thi k Putin's amain motive is malice and spite. He wants to hurt and punish those who will not submit to his will. He wants to show how how powerful he is. The Scripture says, 'judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment'.

[@MrZlocktar]

Zircon missile would've completely vaporize not just building but the entirety of surroundings. Apartment block was damaged by SAM's missile - it's evident. Besides i know this for a fact, because i have seen Ukrainians even showing the debris of SAM's missile. Not only warhead of 3M22 Zircon is much bigger than Kh-47M2, but it is also a true scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile with immense kinetic power on arrival due to Mach 12-14 speed. Probably even twice as high on "sprint" stage. So the real impact from this missile would be scorched earth. Let alone, you will never be able to find any debris of a missile arriving at such speed. There will be no debris.

[@thompson7271]

Not a fan of cbc news at all whatsoever but this journalist and host is by far the best person that cbc has ever produced. He's objective. neutral. Does not feel or look antagonizing and his demeanor is calm and collected.

[@jmefoster2012]

Yet again terrible reporting

[@Finness894]

This is getting more pathetic every time. But have they found ANY mass graves in Canada yet?!? I'm sure that I heard that CLAIMED.

[@Larbr000]

Air defense is only in targeted areas anyway, no one can defend every square inch of land

[@shokdj1]

Is this thing gps guided? Wouldn't it be a problem if it creates plasma

[@AhmadmerzaSarani-no2wq]

Russian and Iran combined to develop and more version of Hypersonic missiles..a glide rocket with ramjet engine 15-times speed of sound in accurate guided electronic warhead system..

[@G_Ellis606]

Russia is light years ahead of USA in missile development

[@Sophie-and-Ken]

The US has been experimenting with hypersonic engines for 30 years now. There is a reason you don’t know about what the US has and why it’s now used in combat, because you can’t turn at Mach 8. It’s not a precise weapon.

Actually there's a fourth question: why a civilian target instead of capital or military targets? Seems very unlogical wasteful use for seemingly an impressive missile like that. High value targets would make more sense.

[@heartborne123]

it's common for russian to target civilian objects, they've been doing it since the full invasion

[@devilaces]

There is a fair chance that it missed it's target, possibly by a wide distance. A lot of Russian equipment doesn't perform as well as Russian generals/politicians would have others believe.

@@heartborne123 doing so with these rockets doesn't make sense. Hi value targets makes more sense. Not civilian buildings. Unless he really has a lot of them. Which I doubt.

@@devilaces plausible reason. I did forget about that.

@@heartborne123 I know that. Only unlogical with a missile of this kind. Abstract warfare is useful but has to make more sense than this.

[@LegaRoSS]

Please tell me you do understand that damage at around 0:13 is NOT from a cruise missile but from SAM with way smaller warhead...

[@marcinhibner9507]

You can also have small drones like 4 or 3 blades for to have cost dropped if 3 blades on some rc drones to fly into tank barrels and other like equipment type with thermite to weld burn through metal fuse all that inside and what is a barrel good after that. Tanks costs millions and drones maybe a few thousand less depends on size and what comes with and etc,. You can even have multiple drones like in series to go as far as you need them and rc into place needed like a train chain sequences rc signals on programs from digital analog digital analog and so on.

[@zoltanb1221]

And they had to attack first a residential building with this. Pure evil.

[@andy41417]

Are you aware of what Kiev has been doing in Donbas? Pure evil too.

[@munsterr777-iz2ow]

9x speed of sound, what materials are they made of not to melt with that much atmospheric pressure and speed?

[@roberttherrien352]

Those hypersonic missiles are kind of inefficient against civilian building unless they are nuclear armed. Against ships I doubt they can be guided toward a moving target. If they are envelopped in plasma and radar can not detect them they also are radar blind to guided themselve to their moving target. They must be using inertial guidance. The precision is in the order of hundreds of meters. A conventionnal warhead will be of limited stategic value. That plasma trail can be detected by a low orbit infrared detector and track info transmitted to aerial defenses. To give a prediction of the possible target an then a shotgun type defense (multiple launch) could take care of the end of run manoeuvring. Over all right now these hypersonics are used as terror weapons.

[@ec6052]

Nothing is impossible to shoot down but the fact Russia can't even tell where it's going does make it difficult LOL

[@thimblemunch24]

How do you shoot down lazers?

[@ec6052]

@@thimblemunch24 By blowing up the laser... Like you, that's pretty fkn simple lol

[@thimblemunch24]

@@ec6052 Good luck...