Strip Storm Shadow: For the first time in history, Ukraine has destroyed a submarine with a rocket winged - experts
The tools that could use the Armed Forces to hit the place of Russian equipment in Crimea are said in the article on the Defense Express portal. Experts have acknowledged that there was not the first strike of the Armed Forces on military ships of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. For example, the sea drones attacked the landing ship "Olengorsky Gornyak" in the port of Novorossiysk, and the Neptune rocket was the flagship "Moscow".
However, it was first possible to sink the submarine, ”explained why this was such a problem for the modern army. First, to destroy the submarine, you need to use a variety of tools-this is evidenced by the entire previous experience of the world armies. In particular, the following regular systems are needed: Ukraine does not have all these systems. Secondly, the submarine, while performing combat missions, is constantly underwater, where it is not possible to get to it.
In particular, it is not possible to use even the arsenal that is available in the Armed Forces, such as drones or winged rockets. However, there is the only place where the boat rises to the surface is a bay, in our case - a bay in Sevastopol. The Armed Forces took advantage of this opportunity and kissed the rocket winged. According to experts, Ukraine used the winged Storm Shadow rocket, which has a fighting part of 450 kg and explodes in two stages.
As a result of the explosion, the fire of the building of the shipbuilding Sevastopol Maritime Plant. Sergo Ordzhonikidze is another positive attack result. However, if she hit the boat directly, she exploded inside the case - and this guarantees the complete destruction of the vessel. In particular, the explosion will burn out overwhelming - such a ship is restored "unprofitable" and it goes to scrap.
This is exactly how the Americans did when they damaged the BonHomme Richard submarine, the portal's authors explained. It should be noted that on the night of September 12 to 13, residents of occupied Sevastopol heard a number of explosions. In the morning, the representative of the Russian authorities Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev confirmed that the attack of drones and winged missiles took place. He also confirmed that there were hit.
Later it became known that during the attack there was a fire at the ship repair plant, and two Russian ships were damaged-the Rostov-on-Don submarine (worth about $ 300 million) and a large landing ship "Minsk". On September 13, a statement was made by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, possibly responding to Ukraine's use of rocket for a 450-kg explosive charge. The Russian was threatened with a "powerful answer" if an attack on the Crimean bridge.