Ukraine became the owner of a budget cruise missile for rear strikes

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The day before, a video appeared on the Web, in which the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully carried out a test launch of an unmanned aerial vehicle visually resembling the Iranian kamikaze drone Arash-2. And it's very stupid news for Russia, since now Ukraine has actually become the owner of a medium-range cruise missile that can hit targets in our deep rear.

Arash-2


Arash-2 is an Iranian heavy-duty kamikaze jet drone. Its purpose is to strike at the critical infrastructure of cities at a distance of 1000 to 2000 kilometers, protected by air defense systems, which classifies it as a strategic one. An important feature of Arash-2 is that when you try to shoot it down, it automatically aims at the radar, and when the radar is turned off, it returns to the original "suicidal" task. This is a very dangerous long-range weapon!



This UAV was based on the unmanned aerial target Kian-1 aircraft type, intended for training calculations of radars and anti-aircraft systems, and then its more advanced version Kian-2. A strike modification of a civilian target was introduced in 2019. The length of the kamikaze drone is 4,5 meters, the wingspan is 3,5 meters, the weight of the warhead is 260 kilograms. Two configuration options are known - with jet and piston engines. The speed characteristics of the UAV are not known to us, but the real range shown by it is not a secret - Arash-1400 was able to easily overcome 2 km during the exercises.

In fact, Arash-2 is a real "budget" cruise missile, which can be land-based and sea-based. In the Iranian ground forces, an attack drone is launched from trucks that have special launch rails or large transport and launch containers that can accommodate several ammunition at once. Also, Arash-2 drones are now in service with the Iranian Navy, where they were quite successfully used from the deck of a landing ship and an auxiliary vessel during recent naval exercises. In the basic version, kamikaze drones can only hit stationary targets with known coordinates, while upgraded ones, equipped with full-fledged homing heads, are capable of destroying even moving targets.

Thus, with minimal alteration of the existing aerial target, the Iranians managed to create highly effective and at the same time simpler and cheaper functional analogues of cruise missiles. Obviously, this rational approach has also inspired our opponents, who are jealously following the practice of using low-cost kamikaze drones in Ukraine.

Ukrainian is not "Arash"


The video footage, frankly specially merged into the public domain, shows how, from the launch platform located in the back of a light truck of the Gazelle type, with the help of a jet booster, the UAV soars up, very familiarly rattling like a moped, an UAV that is noticeably larger in size than the Russian Geranium and outwardly very similar to the Iranian kamikaze drones Arash-2, which were previously eyed by the RF Armed Forces.

The problem is that this launch was carried out not by our military, but by Ukrainian ones. The question immediately arose, is Tehran secretly selling its drones to Kyiv, so to speak, to maintain a balance?


But no, the Ukrainian drone is only visually similar to the Iranian one, only thanks to the borrowing of a successful design from it. Apparently, the UAV was based on the RZ-60 unmanned target, developed by the Kyiv company Ramsay in 2019. The Ukrainian aerial target is noticeably smaller, its length is only 1,5 meters, cruising speed is declared at 300 km/h. The drone turned into a “kamikaze” by lengthening the body to more than 2 meters, where the warhead and an additional fuel tank are located in the bow. It can be seen that the unmanned vehicle is driven by a pusher propeller, probably from the Austrian Rotax engine. To start from a short ramp, a jet solid fuel booster is used.

Ukraine became the owner of a budget cruise missile for rear strikes


The flight range is not known, but it may well be several hundred kilometers. In Kyiv, they previously threatened that they would be able to finish off at a distance of up to 1000 kilometers. There are questions about the management of the "suicide bomber". The use of the GPS / GLONASS navigation system will give it the ability to hit stationary targets with known coordinates in advance, like the Russian Geraniums. If the Starlink satellite communication system is activated, this will remove restrictions on the control range. And this is very bad news for us.

Receiving engines, electronics and other components from its Western sponsors and accomplices, Ukraine will now be able to assemble these primitive, but very effective analogues of cruise missiles, which will soon fly at targets in the Russian rear, almost in the basement. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will hit both military targets and civilian critical infrastructure, tit for tat. The problem, as we noted earlier, is that it is simply impossible to cover all the airspace over Russia with air defense systems.

It remains either to get used to living next door to a terrorist state, with all the ensuing negative consequences, or to “zero it out”, going to the Polish border.
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  1. +9
    14 February 2023 19: 03
    Ukraine will now be able to assemble these primitive, but very effective analogues of cruise missiles almost in the basement, which will soon fly at targets in the Russian rear.

    But you can’t just strike well and not at the transformer booths for show (when there is light again in three days), but at large power plants, so that there will probably be no more light ??? They are growing exponentially. Maybe it's enough to draw a line, it's time to act?
    1. +1
      14 February 2023 22: 57
      Listen to the interview with Sergey Tovkach of the Aviainovatsiya design bureau and you will understand where VVP, Shoigu and K, General Staff, State Duma have driven us in 10 years. And no tactical missiles can change the situation
      1. +2
        15 February 2023 00: 07
        Katz offers to surrender?
      2. +1
        15 February 2023 05: 40
        You should be happy Ukrainians that Putin is in power. Who else would have buried you in radioactive dust long ago.
      3. +1
        15 February 2023 13: 11
        And where did it go? Away from America? Which, with all its NATO herd, cannot do anything with one country? You should shout somewhere on the Maidan or replace Biden for the weekend. And here you are modestly doing something from around the corner with propaganda against Russia, citing some pupkins as an example, it’s not clear from where. On the same grounds I can declare you an enemy of the whole world, so what?
      4. 0
        15 February 2023 13: 13
        These are ZIONISTS - we were all driven into slavery, back in 91! stop
        1. -1
          15 February 2023 15: 35
          Your entry resembles the cry of a small rodent from the cartoon "Mad Squirrel-2"
    2. -1
      16 February 2023 20: 10
      Quote: Athenogen
      Ukraine will now be able to assemble these primitive, but very effective analogues of cruise missiles almost in the basement, which will soon fly at targets in the Russian rear.

      But you can’t just strike well and not at the transformer booths for show (when there is light again in three days), but at large power plants, so that there will probably be no more light ??? They are growing exponentially. Maybe it's enough to draw a line, it's time to act?

      I agree with you 100%!
  2. 0
    14 February 2023 19: 07
    first you need to reset the leadership of this outskirts igil, but Putin gave guarantees of immunity, and he is a man of his word, but the fact that his people are dying is something that must be endured
    1. +14
      14 February 2023 19: 11
      Quote: rotkiv04
      but Putin gave immunity guarantees, and he is a man of his word

      The most interesting thing is that he keeps his word only with "partners", but he did not keep everything that he promised to the people ...
      1. +7
        14 February 2023 19: 19
        a real kid only keeps a word in front of real boys. and the people are suckers) such a GDP
    2. 0
      17 February 2023 09: 53
      Putin and guarantees are antonyms.
      He has already said that: he will not raise pensions, he will not change the constitution, he will not send troops, that he recognizes borders, that long-term power makes the ruler mad, that he will not announce mobilization.
      How can you believe?!
  3. +1
    14 February 2023 20: 37
    the problem is that Ukraine has all external support - money, weapons, and even soldiers. And it can be destroyed even to the ground, that the war may not be stopped. And if you start bombing the West, everything will slide into a nuclear war.
  4. +2
    14 February 2023 21: 38
    All nonsense.
    At the current level of aircraft modeling, calculating and bundling something is not a problem.
    There would be a national team in aircraft modeling and common sense. On the Internet, people made fairly large models of aircraft on the control of sticks and foam ...

    In any case, compared to the often announced strikes against Ukraine, "without declaring war" is nothing.
    1. -4
      14 February 2023 23: 00
      You should also listen to an interview with Sergei Tovkach of the Aviainovaciya Design Bureau dated February 6 in the KP about UAVs. You will be horrified
      1. +1
        15 February 2023 13: 13
        What? Because you can lie so cool and carry nonsense?
      2. -2
        15 February 2023 15: 50
        And why be horrified. A bunch of Chinese called "Krondstadt" NGO seems to have fussed in time and received a state order. By acquaintance, they apparently became the main experts in the Aeronet Technology Initiative. And with lure generals they cut the budget. People have no imagination, they just copied other people's developments and sit on the dough. All our UAVs are a complete copy of Jews and striped ones. But a copy is always worse than the original. Well, it’s a complete squeak, to threaten a billion for the development of Orlan. A Jewish copy. Learn Salaga. As one man wrote about the filming of "Cheburashka" Give me these one and a half billion and I will find you, grow and shoot a documentary film about Cheburashka. Krondstadt didn’t go and made a copy.
  5. -1
    14 February 2023 21: 58
    A propeller-driven cruise missile ... however :). In the best case, a drone-drummer for the "front end", with a quick launch from a "jump" - was brought in an SUV, "shot" and drove off.
  6. -3
    14 February 2023 21: 58
    A propeller-driven cruise missile ... however :)
  7. -2
    14 February 2023 22: 30
    This is a violation of the treaty on missile range limitations. 300 km
  8. +1
    15 February 2023 08: 32
    Tufts will be preparing some blows for their anniversary, 1001%
  9. +1
    15 February 2023 12: 34
    This rocket will fly to Moscow in 2,5 hours, i.е. she will fly to St. Petersburg, Vologda, Samara. A simple product, the West will rivet 10 pieces. per day. Air defense in the Russian Federation is full of holes, so count out of 10 five will reach the goal. Silence and peace we only dream of. Which exit. Russia needs to legislate that the entire territory of Ukraine, seized by the separatists with the help of NATO, is the property of Russia.
    Assigning the status of the territory of Ukraine, that this is the territory of Russia, will transfer the NMD into a counter-terrorist operation (CTO), i.e. All military actions will be carried out in accordance with the Law "On Counteracting Terrorism" dated March 06.03.2006, 35 N XNUMX-FZ, and this is already the legal basis for conducting military actions.
    All actions of the Russian Army on the territory of Ukraine will comply with the Law of Russia.
    The state of Ukraine must cease to exist. The entire territory of Ukraine should return to Russia, in the form of regions and republics.
    Any half-hearted decision is the defeat and capitulation of the Russian Federation to NATO.
    1. +2
      15 February 2023 12: 41
      The entire territory of Ukraine should return to Russia, in the form of regions and republics.

      Only in the form of areas. In the region, all leaders are appointed from Moscow.
      Self-determination of the republics of the USSR "ate" to its fullest.
      1. +1
        15 February 2023 16: 19
        In the Russian Federation, all territorial entities are equal, for example, the republics of Yakutia, Chechnya, Tatarstan .... and Primorsky Krai, Moscow Region. etc. New Donetsk and Lugansk republics. There will be no union republics, as in the USSR. Enough, eat your fill of these nationalist republics.
  10. -2
    16 February 2023 12: 19
    And we don't care, but we don't care
    we mow the green grass-grass ...
    1. -2
      16 February 2023 12: 28
      Kasiў Yas kanyushynu
      Lalala-lala-la ... fshut
      Lalala-lala-la... wow
  11. 0
    16 February 2023 14: 41
    Quote: vlad127490
    Which exit. Russia needs to legislate that the entire territory of Ukraine, seized by the separatists with the help of NATO, is the property of Russia.
    Assigning the status of the territory of Ukraine, that this is the territory of Russia, will transfer the NMD into a counter-terrorist operation (CTO), i.e. All military actions will be carried out in accordance with the Law "On Counteracting Terrorism" dated March 06.03.2006, 35 N XNUMX-FZ, and this is already the legal basis for conducting military actions.
    All actions of the Russian Army on the territory of Ukraine will comply with the Law of Russia.
    The state of Ukraine must cease to exist. The entire territory of Ukraine should return to Russia, in the form of regions and republics.

    And how do you see it?
    1. 0
      16 February 2023 18: 08
      And also like Germany after the Second World War, the military administration put things in order among the population, who consider the Russians to be 100% enemies!
  12. -1
    16 February 2023 14: 50
    Quote: prior
    Only in the form of areas. In the region, all leaders are appointed from Moscow.
    Self-determination of the republics of the USSR "ate" to its fullest.

    Under the USSR, all the second secretaries of the regional committees of the CPSU were Russians to keep everything under control
    And what from this ?
  13. 0
    16 February 2023 19: 35
    Quote: Anatoly21
    And also like Germany after the Second World War, the military administration put things in order among the population, who consider the Russians to be 100% enemies!

    Just don't tell me how people in Germany loved and love Russians.
    I lived there for 20 years. When Gorbachev opened the borders, all the Germans who lived in the USSR, and this is about 2 million, happily went to Germany for several years.
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  15. 0
    18 March 2023 21: 50
    There is nothing easier, you can make thousands of fake radars. The radar is made from a simple aluminum handwash basin, and the drone completes its journey.