Russia is running out of missiles. Occupiers are already using the "Soviet legacy"
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 9:50 PM
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Photo: Experts talk about the number of missiles in Russia (t me Tsaplienko)
Author:
Anna Shikanova
Missile strikes on Ukraine in the third month of the war are very different from those in the first weeks. The tactics of the shelling have also changed - previously they were chaotic, but now they take a long time to select a target.
As Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview for
Radio Liberty Crimea. Realities , the Russians' missile stockpiles are starting to run out.
Russians have fewer missiles
"Firstly, the reserves are running out. According to our data, if we talk about high-precision weapons, then about 60 percent of the reserves have already been used. For some types, even more - 70%. There are corresponding regulatory requirements for the threshold level that must be maintained in the troops, and for the same Iskanders, this threshold level has already been reached," Skibitsky explained.
He added that Russia cannot replenish its stockpile as quickly as the Soviet Union. They do not have the same capacity to quickly produce precision weapons.
"Moreover, economic sanctions, political sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation do not allow the active, large-scale use of foreign-made components now," explained the GUR representative.
He noted that the Russian military has begun to remove from storage missiles that were produced back in the Soviet era. For example, the Tochka-U missiles were removed from production back in 2018 and replaced with Iskanders.
Old rockets sometimes fall into the field
Old missiles sometimes fail to reach their targets and fall in fields. And so the Russians have changed the tactics of using their high-precision missiles.
"They have a deficit, they no longer conduct active combat operations using high-precision weapons. They have changed the tactics of using such weapons. If earlier two or four missiles were used against an object, now an object, a target, is clearly selected, this is from eight to 12 missiles of different formats," said Skibitsky.
He added that the Russian military is currently using ballistic or cruise missiles of land, sea or air basing.
"We see changes, and we understand that the resource of high-precision weapons, high-precision ammunition in the Russian Federation is at its maximum level," the GUR representative emphasized.
Soviet missiles vulnerable to air defense
According to military-political expert Alexander Kovalenko, the Russian Federation is striking the territory of Ukraine with old, used Soviet missiles with low accuracy but a powerful warhead.
"Today, the most dangerous missile is the Kh-22. It is an old Soviet missile, which has simply catastrophic "accuracy". There, deviations can be 200, 300 meters, and even more. Among other things, they had many problems when they were new - in the 1960s, primarily with fuel systems. Their engines could even fail during flight," the expert explained on air during the marathon.
It is the warhead of these old missiles that poses the greatest danger. According to Kovalenko, such a missile contains 960 kg of explosives.
"In Soviet times, the problems with accuracy were solved with the warhead - even if they missed the target and the missile fell 100 or 200 meters away, the target would be damaged due to the powerful high-explosive fragmentation warhead. But now the situation is such that these missiles are mostly fired at the territory of Ukraine," the expert explained.
He added that these were the very same missiles that were fired at Odessa and the Odessa region.
How long can Russia shell Ukraine?
According to Kovalenko, the Russian Federation has quite large missile capabilities - it has many different missiles from the Soviet era.
"Even those that they have stopped using often - the Kalibr and Iskander cruise missiles - they remain in their warehouses in the so-called emergency reserve. But in terms of use, if we talk about the Kh-22, this is an old Soviet missile that is vulnerable to air defense - more than the Kalibr or Iskander, so the more we delve into this Soviet legacy, the more their missiles are vulnerable to Ukrainian air defense," the expert specified.
Let us recall that we previously wrote about
the main scenarios of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
They also reported that
the Russian army is transferring Iskander-M missile systems to the border with Ukraine.
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