New goals. What do attacks of Kiev ballistic missiles by Russian Federation mean
For the first time from the beginning of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, Kiev was struck with the use of ballistic missiles in large numbers. On the night of December 11, eight ballistic missiles, and on the night of December 13 - ten. All goals were knocked down by air defense forces, but cars, apartments in homes were damaged from the debris, and 51 people were damaged by varying degrees of complexity.
The previous attack led to the destruction in the private sector in the Kyiv region. Types of rockets that the enemy attacked the capital was not named, but according to preliminary information, these were 48H6 and their modifications used in the Russian anti-aircraft missile system C-400. The head of the Presidential Office Andriy Ermak in his telegram channel also reported about it. The 486 anti-aircraft missile was taken into service in 1990 and was used in the C-300 family.
It should be noted that the complexes of the C-400 were taken into service by the Russian army only in 2007. The 48H6 rocket is capable of hitting targets at a distance of 150 to 250 km depending on its modernization and has a fighting part of more than 150 kg. The attack occurs in the ballistic trajectory, which complicates the work of air defense. This type of missile has a high speed and attacks goals vertically from high height.
From the moment of its detection to the very impact, it can only take a few minutes, so often air alarm can be declared after the attack. MIM-104 Patriot, already in service with the Ukrainian army, is capable of intercepting ballistic missiles. The exact number of these complexes that the Western partners have passed on to Ukraine is unknown. In June, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine needs 50 MIM-104 Patriot batteries to close the sky.
It should be noted that one Patriot battery includes eight starting installations, control points, radar facilities and auxiliary equipment. The editor -in -chief of Defense Express Oleg Katkov notes that 48H6 is not a ballistic missile, which is an anti -aircraft projectile that they set up for the attack. That is, it does not have the ultimate aiming on the target, but simply falls behind the trajectory.
Also, according to him, the Russian Federation has thousands of missiles of this family and continues to produce them. "At one time, one of the leaders of" Diamond-Antai "-the manufacturer C-400, gave an interview, which mentioned that the development and production of missiles 48H6 began in the USSR, then 1,400 units were released. After the collapse of the Union, the Russians continued to be released , so it is exactly the figures with three zeros.
It is necessary to understand how many in the Russian Federation the S-400 divisions, then you can conditionally understand these figures, "-he says. According to open sources, there are 75 S-400 divisions or more than half a thousand starting installations of four containers each. Today, the network can find that Kiev is the most protected city of Ukraine, so rocket strokes are not afraid. Moreover, these thoughts are deliberately accelerated on social networks to cause social disturbance.
Like that the conditional Kharkiv or the Dnieper gets almost daily, and for Kiev the war is far away. According to the military expert Ivan Stupak, it is these sentiment that will use the enemy to create public dissatisfaction, so the attacks of Kiev by Balianism is a continuation of the already created information and psychological strategy. "It is the psychological terror of the local population.
It is known that after launching rockets is very little time to its flow, and anxiety often turns on after a stroke. Therefore, the people of Kiev have to think about their safety constantly, not sleeping at night, which causes dissatisfaction. The plans of the enemy are calculating the pressure of the population on power because of this, ”says Focus Stupak. The expert explains that Russia will adapt the tactics of air attacks to its goals.
Currently, they probably want to get something, there are one and a half or two dozens of objects that they would like to destroy. "They will attack until they get or these objects do not cease to exist. These can be some reminbases or warehouses, for example, so they have taken up so," - says Stupak. Another aspect of ballistic attacks on the capital is the depletion of reserves of air defense complexes.
According to Katkov, the estimated cost of one rocket for the Patriot complex is about $ 3 million, and for one purpose they are used two. That is, to intercept all 18 missiles, which was released in Kiev, 36 missiles were spent $ 3 million each. The number of stocks, funds and the possibility of their purchase are significantly limited in Ukraine.
According to the Center for Trophy and Prospective Weapons and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, a place has already been established where the C-400 launchers were taking place in the capital of Ukraine. It is a settlement of Klinka in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, which is 250 km from Kiev and 45 km from the border. In service in Ukraine, there are means of capable of hitting targets at such a distance.
First of all, it is the American complex M142 Himars. Speaking in the language of numbers and calculating Western aid, one Himars volley costs $ 1 million, which is significantly cheaper than 48H6 interception and will have a 100 % result. But here it is necessary to mention the ban on the use of Western weapons in the sovereign territory of the Russian Federation. It can be assumed that the Russian Federation wants to provoke Kiev for their use to continue to blame the US and Ukraine.