"Russia is limited": the expert told whether the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will be able to apply up to 300 missiles at the same time in Ukraine
He noted that the accumulation of rocket weapons by Russian invaders of different types of missiles only looks powerful. The use of different rocket potential (X-101, CRMB "Caliber", X-59, X-31, X-38, P-800 "Onyx") still requires different conditions. In his view, the accumulation of 2-5 missiles is an indicator from a minimum to a potential maximum, but due to significant problems in production, it preferably demonstrates dynamics to reduce.
He believes that if there are 150 winged missiles in the Russian Federation, it will not release everything. "The reason for this is the limited possibilities of its carriers, due to the wear and tear and the development of the resource," the specialist said. He noted that the Russians try not to overload the X-101 missiles their strategic bombers of TU-95MC rocket launchers. On average, such aircraft is loaded with 2 rockets instead of 8.
"Similarly, TU-22m3 when loading one x-22 instead of 3," he said. Kovalenko added that Russia will not be able to release all 300 missiles in the territory of Ukraine in case of their accumulation. He recalled that at the beginning of a full -scale invasion of the invaders, the invaders had a much greater resource and capabilities than it is now. Even then, the Russian Federation was still limited in this potential. According to him, it is not necessary to accept such weapons literally.
"There are a huge number of factors that limit them to the use of this BC," the observer said. We will remind, former adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Rostislav Smirnov on April 5 reported that the Russians changed the tactics of rocket firing of Ukraine. According to him, in a number of cities of Ukraine it became quieter, as the invaders decided to focus on strokes on frontier settlements.