From sea drone and armored vehicles to rockets. Novelties of the Ukrainian defense to strengthen the Armed Forces
Full -scale aggression of the Russian Federation prompted Ukraine to develop its own defensive capabilities. At the end of 2023, priorities were called the production of ammunition, rockets, drones and other weapons. At the end of March 2024, after a certain break, Ukraine applied the Neptune rocket to hit the large landing ship "Konstantin Olshansky", which the invaders were captured during the annexation of Crimea. This was the first public use of Ukrainian missiles in 2024.
Priority, the anti -ship rocket learned to beat for land purposes, which required changes in the head of homing and other systems. In his traditional, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported on the successes of the rocket program. "He held a meeting on our missile program. The head, the Minister of Defense, the Mindograprom, the heads of the respective enterprises. Serial production, new rockets. The details are not public, but our" defense "has the necessary results," the Ukrainian leader said.
He also added that the military should already implement the results of the missile program. In a fresh interview, Taras Chmut, director of the Foundation for the Living, said, in response to the presenter's questions about Ukrainian missiles, said the ammunition with the radius of action plus-minus 300 km in the Ukrainian arsenal. "The plus minus three hundred we produce," said Taras Chmut. "And I don't know.
As for the Sapsan operative-tactical missile system (Grim-2 in the export version), the director "Come back alive" said that he hopes to see him once in the Armed Forces. The history of the complex development is complex. The last public stage is that the funding of the program was restored shortly before the full -scale war. According to Chmut, if there was no full -scale war, as of 2024, the complex could already be at the stage of factory tests.
The potential range could be up to 1500 km, as there were several variants of rockets and combat units. Most of the rocket program parts remain non -public, including the occupiers cannot affect the production lines, if any. A new MRAP armor was developed in Ukraine, called Inguar-3. The peculiarity of the machine is that they did not use ready -made chassis that other manufacturers do. The developers also tested the armored vehicle for compliance with Stagan 4569 Level 3 - 7.
62 mm armor -piercing balls and undermined 8 kg of explosives in TNT. The cost of the first sample is about $ 700 thousand. Under the conditions of mass production, the developers expect that the price of the machine will be higher than classmates, namely about 16 million hryvnias. The higher cost of the machine is justified by the more expensive wheels, which guarantee the best patency, the protection of Level 3, not 2, as usual on MRAP, as well as through the creation of a chassis from scratch.
Inguar Defense positions Inguar-3 as a universal tactical machine, which, depending on the needs, can be in 4x4 and 6x6 versions. On April 3, a marine drone with a powerful combat part was nailed to the shores of Romania in the Black Sea.
The H and Sutton analyst analyzed the photos and videos of the product and came to several conclusions: it is unknown whether the drone belongs to Ukraine, but the Forbes Overbes David ACS writes that Ukraine is actively using various marine drones to strikes the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The author calls the disadvantage of well -known models a relatively small combat part, which is about 200 kg.