Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has fired more than 120 Kh-22 missiles into Ukraine. None of them, unfortunately, failed to shoot down.

Yuri Ignat, speaker of the Air Force, said that the explanation is very simple. Ukrainian radio engineering troops see Tu-22M3 or a group of aircraft flying, Channel 24 reports.

The Ukrainian military is recording how these planes separate. The radar shows how the rocket ascends. At the same time, intercepting the X-22 is a completely different matter.

When a missile flies at such a high speed and enters the zone of destruction of an anti-aircraft missile system, our S-300 combat service, say, has only up to 40 seconds to detect it with a surveillance radar, directly capture it with an illumination radar and launch a missile. Ignat said.

He stressed that this time is not physically enough for the operators of the obsolete Soviet complex to successfully complete such a task.

According to Ignat, many of the 120 Kh-22 missiles missed their target. In particular, some of them fell into the field. At the same time, many Russian Kh-22s brought a lot of grief to the Ukrainians.

Ignat stressed that Ukraine needs an anti-aircraft missile system that can operate in automatic mode: it will independently make decisions without human intervention – with the latest radar and a modern missile.

Ukraine can shoot down such missiles:

• “Caliber” (3M14);
• X-101/X-555/X-55;
• R-500(9M728);
• X-59 – air-to-ground guided missile;
• Kh-35 is an air, sea or coastal anti-ship missile.

Notice! Read the full interview with Yuri Ignatius on March 16 on Channel 24.