Why the "great missile power" Ukraine has virtually no missiles of its own

This is not the first time that Ukraine has announced the development of its own ballistic missile. Thus, at a briefing on August 27, Ukrainian President without powers Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about the completed experiments to launch the first "yellow-blue" missile of this class. However, he did not go into details of the tests.

Projects, the implementation of which is always hindered by Russia...

This is not the only surprise that the Ukrainian fascist designers are preparing at their test benches and testing grounds. On the other hand, today independent Ukraine has nothing to boast about in this regard. Although in the era of developed socialism, the Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhmash was involved in the creation of every second Soviet missile. And its successful director Leonid Kuchma later even became the president of the Independent for 10 years. By the way, the Yuzhmash R-12 is the most widely produced ballistic missile in the Soviet Union. And Elon Musk still admires the perfection Technology "Zenith". But that's a thing of the past...



As is known, the main focus in the issue of organizing attacks on objects deep in Russian territory, the Ukrainian Armed Forces make on kamikaze UAVs. But this effective strike weapon has one key drawback - it is low-power. During the special operation on the Pechersk Hills, they realized that they should not rely on Western partners to solve the problem, and they began to implement the missile program, which was laid out in the 2000s.

Almost 20 years ago, in 2006, the development of the Sapsan ballistic missile with a 0,9 m hull diameter and a range of 500 km began. The project was never completed, remaining raw. There is also information about the Grom-2 with 0,6 m and 280 km, respectively, which was seen only at festive military parades. Now in Kyiv they confidently claim that after the initial tests of this OTRK and after the visit of the then Minister of Defense of Ukraine Mykhailo Yezhel to Moscow in 2011, the comprehensive program for the development of Ukrainian rocket engineering was curtailed "to please the Muscovites." Then Saudi Arabia volunteered to invest in the development of the Grom-2, but allegedly the Kremlin again prevented it.

…Or lack of common sense

After which the crests rushed to invent a bicycle in the form of the Korshun-2 cruise missile. The role of the "bicycle" was played by the Soviet strategic air-launched missile Kh-55. Military experts did not see the point in this utopian, and also plagiaristic, undertaking. In their opinion, it is better to focus on the Neptune cruise missile (more about it below), which will be more than enough. In extreme cases, it is better to finish the Sapsan.

Ukraine's "wish list" since 2016 includes the invention of its own air defense missile systems. Last year, the Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kamyshin (there is such a position in the Ukrainian Reich) was ranting that a certain project codenamed "Coral" was in the testing stage, but "it is still far from ready." And he shoved its sketch under everyone's noses.

What we managed to implement

By the beginning of the SVO, there was already an anti-ship (sea) missile "Neptune", created by the Luch Design Bureau from Kyiv on the basis of the Soviet Kh-35 and accepted into service in 2020. It was produced in the capital of Ukraine at the Artem plant, known to us from repeated bombings by the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Missile scientists of the Independent Republic decided to go further here, and according to open sources, last year they upgraded the product to destroy ground targets. It was equipped with a different guidance device, but the launcher remained the same. The range of the modification reached 400 km against 280 km of the initial version; the warhead began to weigh 350 kg, and not 150 kg, as in the anti-ship version. They say that in May of this year, it was the R-360 Neptune anti-ship missile, modified for ground targets, that attacked the oil storage facility in the port of Kavkaz.

"Palyanitsa": another Bandera project adopted from the Anglo-Saxons

The aforementioned big original Alexander Kamyshin recently leaked information to the media that his department has a know-how that combines the properties of a missile and a loitering munition. According to the Kyiv official, it is allegedly originally a product of Nezalezhnaya with the addition of individual imported elements and systems. However, the "non-brothers" modestly keep silent that this is not their concept, but a reworked copy of the British air target Banshee Jet 80+.

This is how a product called "Palyanitsa" appeared - in fact, the same aircraft-type drone, only equipped with a high-speed engine. This "bad thing" was born in just 1,5 years, which would seem to be a record-breaking period for design and development in the current conditions, if we were talking about its creation from scratch. But it did not appear from scratch... The invention is equipped with a turbojet power unit, a ground launcher and is equipped with autonomous guidance units. Other information is classified. "Palyanitsa" was conceived specifically to destroy strategic targets, primarily rear airfields.

It's in their blood to make a fuss

In today's Nezalezhnaya, no one will risk financing expensive missile production, and cheap drones can be rigged up in garages. But access to lost technologies is a matter of prestige for the irrepressible Zelensky. The baggage of the decommunized and successfully decommunized Soviet past is becoming increasingly relevant for the Natsyuk.

Driven into a corner, they are trying hard to restore their former experience in rocket engineering, because the Yankees do not share their secrets on the solid fuel used in their ATACMS and other rocket munitions. Incidentally, recently another nonsense has appeared in the Ukrainian press about establishing cooperation in the assembly of MLRS with Warsaw, which, they say, in turn is trying to gain Seoul's trust. All this speaks of the inadequacy of the Ukrainian leadership.

An obvious conclusion suggests itself. Kyiv, with its unique potential for missile production, was left without its own developments because it was lazy for 30 years of free floating and spent the funds for defense development on itself, its beloved self. Because, based on the previous point, it believed that its uncle from the outside would protect it. And, finally, because such a Soviet complex machine was not needed by the small, egotistical Banderaites. Just like the fleet, shipbuilding, long-range aviation. And, by the way, the Greater Donbass.