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Russia Deploys MiG Fighters Armed With Hypersonic Missiles To Kaliningrad<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Russia’s defense ministry announced Thursday that it has deployed fighter planes equipped with cutting edge hypersonic missiles to its Baltic region exclave of Kaliningrad, which a statement said will provide “additional measures of\u00a0strategic deterrence<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The statement detailed that three MiG-31 fighters armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles have landed at the Chkalovsk air base in Kaliningrad Oblast. The defense ministry emphasized that the warplanes will be put on\u00a0“round-the-clock alert”<\/strong>\u00a0– at a moment tensions with Ukraine’s powerful Western backers like the United States continue to soar.<\/p>\n

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File image via Russian MoD<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On a few alleged occasions over the last six months of war in Ukraine, Russia has been accused of launching hypersonic missiles on Ukrainian targets; however, the Pentagon has downplayed that it’s\u00a0not a gamechanger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But such an intentionally publicized move as placing hypersonic missile armed MiG fighters on “alert” at Russia’s Baltic outpost is an escalatory move aimed at NATO and Ukraine’s Western backers which have been ramping up longer-range missile and weapons shipments to Kiev. Kaliningrad borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania, both of which will see this move as a severe threat to their national security.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Associated Press<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>reporting that Finland is alarmed its airspace may have been violated by the MiGs as they were en route to the\u00a0Kaliningrad base<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A video released by the Defense Ministry showed the fighters arriving at the base but not carrying the missiles, which were\u00a0apparently delivered separately<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Finland\u2019s Defense Ministry said Thursday that two Russian MIG-31 fighter jets were\u00a0suspected of having violating Finnish airspace<\/strong> in the Gulf of Finland off the southern town of Porvoo, west of Helsinki. The Nordic country\u2019s Border Guard started a preliminary investigation into the incident.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Russia Deploys MiG Fighters Armed With Hypersonic Missiles To Kaliningrad Russia’s defense ministry announced Thursday that it has deployed fighter planes equipped with cutting edge hypersonic missiles to its Baltic region exclave of Kaliningrad, which a statement said will provide “additional measures of\u00a0strategic deterrence.” The statement detailed that three MiG-31 fighters armed with Kinzhal hypersonic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[281,33105,553,694,827,4318],"class_list":["post-63324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-kaliningrad","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63325,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324\/revisions\/63325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}