The Backfire weapon improve is kind of spectacular, enhancing the bomber’s capabilities towards each land targets and floor ships. Along with the brand new land-attack missiles (the Kh-101 and Kh-555, based on Russian press), there reportedly can be at the very least two long-range ultrahigh-speed dual-capable (nuclear and traditional) missiles with land-attack and antiship functionality. That is essential as a result of the Division of Protection has stated the US at the moment has no protection towards hypersonic missiles. Backfire’s producer, Tupolev, claims the improved Backfire bomber can be operational in 2021.
Not solely does the TU-22M3 have improved vary, however based on Russian state media it additionally carries the brand new Kh-32 long-range supersonic cruise missile. The Kh-32 travels just under hypersonic velocity and is a dual-capable (nuclear and traditional) antiship and land-attack cruise missile. Sputnik News states its velocity is Mach 4.1 and TASS places it at greater than Mach 5. That seems too excessive, besides maybe in a terminal dive, however even at Mach 4 at 130,000 ft it’s a very severe menace, probably invulnerable to present Western air-defense methods.
In response to Russian media and different Russian publications, the Kh-32’s vary is 620 miles. Sputnik News and Russia Past the Headlines report that it’s nuclear succesful, which is confirmed within the 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Overview. Russia Past the Headlines stories the Kh-32’s accuracy inside just a few yards and warhead weight restrict at 1,002 kilos. This provides a robust standard antiship warhead functionality as effectively. The Kh-32 reportedly grew to become operational in 2016. In that case, greater than 100 operational Backfire bombers might be carrying it now.
The Kh-32 makes it tougher to intercept the Backfire earlier than weapons-release vary. The Soviet-era Kh-22 (nonetheless reportedly operational) has half the vary of the brand new weapon. Whereas publish–Chilly Battle U.S. Navy fighters have a lot better radars and avionics than the F-14, they lack its long-range (and even the F-14 vary wouldn’t be enough towards a Kh-32-armed plane). The longer vary of the Tu-22M3M complicates a provider strike group’s capability to arrange a barrier protection. The intense velocity of the missile reduces flight time by an element of 4 in comparison with a subsonic antiship missile, decreasing the defensive worth of locational uncertainty between launch and impression time.
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