Ukrainian air defence shoots down Russia's latest X-32 missile

Ukrainian defenders shot down a modern Russian supersonic cruise missile X-32, which was produced in late 2023.

Here's What We Know

The X-32 was probably shot down by an anti-aircraft missile. Photos of the wreckage show holes in the right wing console.

The missile is an upgraded version of the Kh-22 air-to-surface missile, which was developed in the late 1980s but briefly frozen due to the collapse of the USSR. The first tests took place in 1998, and in 2008, the Tu-22M3 was updated specifically for the X-32. It was only in 2016, after many attempts, that the missile was successfully tested and adopted, with plans to upgrade 30 Tu-22M3 aircraft to Tu-22M3M.

Source: Militarnyi