In Russia, missiles end. What to wait next

"In the context of sanctions, Russian missile manufacturers were expecting in the first months of the war on their reserves, but stocks began to run out, and now the only hope is smuggling. " Opinion. We. From Ukraine, from the first day of the war, focus has not stopped working for a minute. Our team considers the duty to inform the reader about what is happening, to collect and analyze facts, to resist hostile propaganda. Today, focus needs your support to continue your mission.

Thank you for being with us. The paradox is that this statement is both appropriate and inappropriate. And to understand this paradox, there are two types of missile weapons of Russian occupation troops: renewed and not renewed. Renewable rockets are rocket weapons that Russia can produce, but it has some problems with it. In particular due to the lack of foreign components.

For example, Russia can not now produce missiles X-47m "Dagger", since they in their composition-more than 130 foreign components, mainly electronics. Interestingly, most of these components of Russia were supplied by the world leader of integrated circuits from the USA Analog Device. Without American chips, the production of "daggers" in Russia stopped.

For its part, Russia can produce winged caliber missiles, X-101, X-59, but they also have a considerable number of foreign components, especially chips. In conditions of sanctions, rocket manufacturers were expecting in the first months of the war on their stocks, but stocks began to run out, and now the only hope is smuggling. Smuggling supplies are rare and do not provide production with the required number of spare parts and circuits.

According to the information available, the link in this smuggling is Tajikistan. That is, Russia can produce the above missiles, but with pauses in production and artificially. In the conditions of a full-scale war, the need for these types of missiles is a dozen a day, while the real production potential is 1-2 missiles a week with all the necessary components, and it takes a long time to wait at the time of this presence.

That is, expensive friends, to fire Ukraine Russia can now not hundreds of missiles daily and 2-3 thousand per month, but a few tens of about once every 2-3 months and periodically. What is called, feel the difference, and that is the whole essence. In Russia, the potential of boundless use of a wide range of rocket weapons has ended, and it is experiencing the most acute shortage. Not renewable rocket weapons are what Russia has inherited from the USSR and which it is not able to produce.