On March 12, 2022, [[Russian]] forces combat tested for the first time the [[hypersonic]] ''Kinzhal'' (''Daggar'') missile against a [[NATO]] weapons storage facility at Deliatyn, [[Ukraine]]. A hypersonic missile can fly at 5 times the speed of sound (3,800 mph) and even greater. NATO, which has used the [[NATO war in Ukraine|Ukraine conflict]] to showcase new [[weapon]]s [[technology]] which only served to prolong the conflict and increase the death toll, at the time had no such operational equivalent nor defense against hypersonic missiles.