Video with a launch of Sapsan rocket in the president
"And you know, at this moment it became ashamed as a citizen that since the 1990s the state has not noticed such people. Again, his rockets are made for the first time a million UAV. . - said Vladimir Zelensky in his New Year's address. Volodymyr Pozdnyakov noted that in the video in the words of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the Ukrainian Operational-Tactical Missile Complex "Sapsan" in the video inserted footage of launching the South Korean Ballistic Missile Hyunomo-2A.
"The Hyunmoo-2A South Korean Ballistic missile is a kind of copy of the Russian Iskander missile. It is created on the basis of the NHK-2 missile, which in turn has taken as a basis the US anti-aircraft missile MIM-14 Nike Hercules," he added. At the same time, the Military Portal Defense Express calls the theory of origin Hyunmoo-2 from the Russian OTRC "Iskander" because of the visual similarity of conspiracy.
"But there are other sources that claim that this South Korean ballistic missile comes from Israeli Lora, and the visual similarity to Iskander is dictated by functionality, not a source of technology borrowing," - it says. Recall that the Ukrainian Operations and Tactical Missile Complex "Sapsan" or "Thunder 2" is a development that has been going on since 2009. Director General of Ukroboronprom, Herman Smetanin called this development over -Secretary, but noted that people work and motivated.
The Sapsan Project What Ukrainian Defense Industry began to develop in the early 2000s. At that time, the development of Sapsan, which had to beat up to 500 km and have a fighting part of almost 500 kg, was announced. The project was planned to be completed in 2012, but the timing was due to a lack of funding. However, in 2016, it became known about the revival of the Sapsan project called "Grim-2".