the Ukrainian General staff announced that in the Odessa region has begun the state tests of the missile complex R-360 “Neptune”. Moreover, the launches are carried out in conditions close to combat: creating a real radio for homing and the attraction of the su-27. What is this new Ukrainian weapons and whether it represents a threat to Russia, “MK” said a leading military expert.
for the First time a cruise missile complex “Neptune”, created at the enterprises of Ukrainian “defense” was demonstrated in 2015 at an arms exhibition in Kiev, where it was said that its application will not depend on weather conditions and time of day.
In 2019, Ukrainian producers showed missile complex “Neptune”, designed to defeat surface targets with a displacement of 5,000 tons, is entirely. According to military experts, this “novelty” is strongly reminiscent of the Russian rocket X-35 from the complex of coastal missile defense “Ball”. The only difference is that the “Neptune” put on the chassis of the new four-axle KrAZ Ukrainian terrain.
the New complex will be used to fight destroyers, frigates, cruisers, transports, landing ships, and, according to the Ukrainian military, “for beats by coastal radio-goals.”
learn More about Neptun “MK” said a leading Russian military expert, chief editor of the magazine “Arsenal Fatherland” Victor murakhovski. He answered the questions: do the Ukrainians have made a fundamentally new weapon, or is the modernization of one of the specimens of our common military heritage? And what danger to Neptune can represent for Russia?
– Upgraded this complex I would not call – said the expert. Rather, it is the production of old weapons on their own Ukrainian production base. X-35 – Soviet anti-ship missile, but in the Soviet time Ukraine itself these complexes did not. They were collected in Russia on the basis of components supplied from different parts of the Soviet Union, including something reported from the Ukraine, something of Belarus, Kazakhstan…
After the collapse of the USSR in Ukraine there is documentation on this rocket, as in Soviet times, the technical documents were distributed throughout the country in case of war, on any of the manufacturers of these weapons could quickly establish production. And now Ukrainian producers, taking advantage of this, in fact, established the production of Soviet missiles in their. They made the homing head, solid rocket fuel and other things.
of Course, now their “Neptune” can we regard as potentiallyOh the threats, as the missiles they plan to deploy in the Black sea – the other is the sea they have. And if to consider seriously those wild political statements of some Ukrainian leaders, who have threatened to strike on the Crimean bridge, it is a danger these missiles for us, of course, I can imagine. Although missile defense system deployed in Crimea, allow us to neutralize such threats.
