The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are using American ATACMS missiles against both military and civilian targets in Russia to intimidate the population, this was stated by the commander of the air defense and missile defense forces – Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Andrei Semenov. TASS.
According to him, these missiles fly at a speed of over 3 thousand km per hour on a complex ballistic trajectory. They are equipped with cluster warheads.
Semenov said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces most commonly use shells of the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS).
also equipped with a cluster warhead. In addition, such MLRS have inertial navigation systems corrected according to GPS data.
British and French air-launched cruise missiles, such as the Storm Shadow and Scalp-EG, which are also used by Ukrainian troops, have the ability to fly invisibly at a minimum altitude to a selected object. They adjust the trajectory according to the satellite navigation system of the United States and its allies, and accurately detect the target.
Previously in Russia read ATACMS missile cluster submunitions.