Mikoyan MiG-31K fighter jets with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles fly over Moscow's Red Square during the Victory Day military parade.
Mikoyan MiG-31K fighter jets with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles fly over Moscow's Red Square during the Victory Day military parade.
  • Putin recently said Russia will begin patrolling the Black Sea using jets carrying Kinzhal missiles.
  • Russia has much hyped the Kinzhal missile, but experts have said its capabilities are exaggerated.
  • The UK MoD said that its performance in Ukraine has so far been "poor." 

Russia's much hyped Kinzhal ballistic missile performs poorly, despite Russia boasting its plans to use them to patrol the Black Sea, the UK's Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence update Saturday.