According to Russian media, the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly began to use a new development of Ukraine – the Grom-2 operational-tactical missile system, capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 500 kilometers – for attacks on military bases in the Crimea. .
The Ukrainian military has a powerful Grom-2 missile, which they allegedly used to hit a Russian military airbase in Crimea on March 4. This news was reported by the company “News”.
According to media reports, the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly used the Grom-2 OTRK in an attack on a Russian airbase located near the village of Gvardeiskoye in the Simferopol region of Crimea.
According to one version, the missile was fired from the area of the village of Tuzla in the Odessa region, according to the second, the attack was carried out with the help of the Soviet unmanned aerial vehicle Tu-141 “Strizh”.
The media also interviewed experts whose opinions were divided on the use of the Grom-2 OTRK by the Ukrainian military.
So, military expert Yuriy Fedorov believes that Ukraine can create such a long-range missile on the basis of a design bureau in Kharkov and the Yuzhmash rocket-building enterprise in the Dnieper.
In contrast, OSINT analyst, US Army veteran Henry Shlottman points out that there has so far been no evidence that the Grom-2 has entered service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to him, it is more likely that the airfield in Gvardeisky was attacked by a Tu-141 Strizh aircraft.
Operational-tactical missile system “Grom-2”: what is known about it
The Grom-2 OTRK was indeed developed by the Ukrainian design bureau Yuzhnoye since 2013. This is an example of a “shield” that should be used as a non-nuclear deterrent.
The complex was built on the basis of a solid-fuel ballistic missile. The radius of action was announced as 280 km, but the designers also announced the possibility of creating a version with a radius of destruction of up to 500 km.
In 2019, the first tests of the missile system would begin. But in the summer of 2022, Ukroboronprom reported that the project was not yet completed.
Recall that in the summer of 2022, a double-tailed UAV, which, as it turned out, can be ordered from Alibaba, attacked positions in the Saki region of the Russian-occupied Crimea. Then, the Russian media wrote that “an unmanned aerial vehicle from Alibaba” was found in the occupied Crimea, in the Saki region, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces was repeatedly attacked due to the air base located here.
Focus he also wrote that on March 2, the Russian media confirmed the night drone attack on the military unit of the RF Armed Forces in Crimea. According to the propagandists, drones crashed in the Saki area, one of which exploded. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on the other hand, reported the “mass attack” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the destruction of 6 UAVs.
Source: Focus
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