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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 😂

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

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

@@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.

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.

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

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

@@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.

@@SilverforceX we know you are a liar

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

Just like in Belgorod

True

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

he's not your bro

Facts

In comedic sense, the video is better

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.

Russian Bot Humor is the worst

I was just thinking the same thing...

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

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.

​@@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.

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

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

"Hypersonic washing machine " Ursula Von Dercrazy

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

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

maybe even a sub-sonic one

The warhead was actually a toilet

nobody said russia was running out of ammunition.

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

​@@ashleygoggs5679 perhaps you were living under a stone

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

@@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.

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

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

Exactly how much kinetic energy does a hypersonic missile have in your imagination and where does it get it from?

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It was a shovel

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

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

Yeah Ukraine could not handle their own shovel

@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...

"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...

They can't show the damaged patriot

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

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.

Bravo. Rods from God concept.

You know nothing of physics

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

​@@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.)

@@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

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

​@@RunForest13that isn't how they work lol

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

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

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 !

bullshit

Very probable

​​@@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.

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

@@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

cbc propagandaa

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!

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 ?

😂 everybody loved a good joke

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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

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

@@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

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

​@@sidharthcs2110there were no such reports

Offensive

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

its only a kaliber missile

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

​@@jetli740 Thank you!

It’s a failed AD

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.

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. 😂

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?

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.

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....

It is not a minor damage

And the best comment award goes to you sir 😅

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

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

European

I here Hotpoints are the ticket for hypersonic missiles.

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

It could go through the building and explode after

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

​@@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

​@@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

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

Because its crap .

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.

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

@@markpensarn593 You mean Russia sends stink bombs?

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.

where are the intact passports ?! xD

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

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

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

​@@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.

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

I agree. That's the most likely scenario.

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

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.

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

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

Russians took washing machines from ukraine and built hypersonic missiles

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.

Hypersonic ones yes ! 🤣🤣🤣

maybe a drone that carried the missile :D

@@benny5299 LOL

@@mxdmta4421 maybe the rocket went through the building

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

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 !!!

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.

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

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

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.

100% right

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

@@108doublestitches Oh the Brits did? well we must trust them then

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

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.

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

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

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)

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

@@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...

​@@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.

Defund, absolutely useless waste of money

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

God you guys are miserable

Welcome to CBC 😂

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

Orc troll so sad

....or over-estimate them either. 😄

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

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

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

@@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

Lmao this one cracked me up

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Russia is well past that point

Lol

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.

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

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

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.

@@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.

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

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

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

@@danross395 Същото е и с металите..

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.

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

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

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'.

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

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.

How do you shoot down lazers?

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

@@ec6052 Good luck...

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.