A Russian Air Force MiG-31
Intersecting a war object with cutting-edge Russian technology is not simple, but Ukraine discovered the solution. Opponents’ weapons miss their target by hundreds of meters.
How to neutralize one of Russia’s most advanced and feared weapons, the Kinzhal hypersonic missile? Using interference and music, he has just discovered Ukraine.
The Kinzhal missile, capable of flying at Mach 5.7 and launched from modified MiG-31 interceptors, can carry a 454 kg warhead (1,000 pounds) for more than 480 km (300 miles).
It travels so fast that even U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems have difficulty intercepting it, and Russia frequently uses the missile in weekly bombings of power plants — and cities, and civilians.
Now, Ukrainian forces claim that their electronic warfare system (EW) Domestically developed “Lima” is successfully interfering with the Kinzhal missile guidance system.
Unlike traditional electronic warfare systems that transmit noise to overwhelm signals, the Lima missile uses digital suppression, combining jamming, signal spoofing and cyberattacks to confuse the weapon’s navigation receiver.
Satellite-guided weapons, like the Kinzhal missile, rely on a stable GPS or GLONASS signal for accuracy. But when Lima interrupts this connection, the missile’s guidance system reverts to a navigation system that quickly accumulates errors.
The result? The missiles begin to miss their targets — by hundreds of meters.
