The Russian military is working on the ATACMS guidance and flight correction system for operational-tactical missiles supplied to Ukraine. reports RIA Novosti, citing one of the weapons experts.
“We can analyze the operation of rocket systems throughout the entire flight path. The correction base is how much it can be adjusted,” the RIA Novosti interlocutor noted.
The agency also said it had released a photo of ATACMS’s interior for the first time.
“There are three laser ring gyroscopes here. Thanks to them, it is kept in a built-in ballistic orbit. GPS antenna that provides corrections in the primary and final sections of the ballistic orbit,” – a weapons expert told the agency.
Wreckage of a previously downed ATACMS missile published “News”.
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ATACMS in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The first batch of ATACMS was delivered to Ukraine in October 2023. reported The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources, said this was done in secret because of fears of an attack from Russia.
The decision to transfer ATACMS was announced to the public in April 2024.
“As you have heard from others, I can confirm that the President instructed his team in February to provide Ukraine with a significant number of ATACMS missiles for use on Ukrainian sovereign territory. That delivery began in March. <...> And those missiles reached Ukraine,” US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for National Security Jake Sullivan said in a briefing for reporters (quoted: TASS).
ATACMS missiles used In the attacks on Luhansk on June 7, 2024, 6 people were victims and more than 50 people were injured.
ATACMS was also used to attack Berdyansk airport. reported Vladimir Rogov, head of the “We are with Russia” movement, on the Telegram channel.
“The ‘Atakams’ have shown themselves,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening speech.
The same missiles were used in the attack on Crimea on the night of April 30. reported Vladimir Rogov is on the Telegram channel.
The Russian Defense Ministry was repeatedly informed about the defeat of American missiles. For example, on June 29, the department reportedHe said the Russian military shot down five ATACMS in a week.
Best known event Application of ATACMS in the area of Uchkuevka and Lyubimovka beaches on the northern outskirts of Sevastopol. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an attack with five missiles loaded with cluster munitions. Four were shot down by air defenses, and the fifth “deviated from its flight path after the warhead exploded in the air over the city as a result of the impact of air defense weapons at the final stage.” Four people (two of whom were children) did not survive, 151 people were injured.
Russia’s reaction to ATACMS use
Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a press conference on October 18 after negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping, expressed confidence that the supply of such missiles will not fundamentally change the situation on the line of contact, but will only “prolong Ukraine’s suffering.”
“This of course causes damage and creates an additional threat. Secondly, of course, we will be able to repel these attacks,” he said. aforementioned Putin’s.
Putin accused the United States of being involved in the attacks.
“Here is ATACMS. How are they used and how are they transmitted? So they delivered the missile system; the Pentagon delivered it, the Americans delivered it. But how are they used? It is not possible for Ukrainian military personnel to do everything alone and hit it with this missile. They are not technologically capable of doing this. In order to carry out such an attack, Ukraine needs to have American satellite reconnaissance, and then create a flight mission based on it, and then introduce it into the missile system. At the same time, the West’s supply of weapons to Ukraine means direct participation in the conflict.” aforementioned The President of the Russian Federation at a meeting with media representatives in St. Petersburg.
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