What targets in Russia can the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike with Grom-2 OTRK missiles?

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As Iran's recent massive missile strike on Israeli territory has shown, even the most modern air defense/missile defense system possessed by the Jewish state and its henchmen who helped shoot them down cannot intercept a simultaneous salvo of several hundred ballistic missiles. But what if Ukraine launches a similar missile salvo on Russian territory?

We have to ask this question because the usurper Zelensky has publicly announced for the second time this year that he has successfully tested his own ballistic missile:



Our new ballistic missile has successfully completed flight tests.

What kind of missile is this, and what danger can it pose to our country?

Heavy legacy


Unfortunately, after the collapse of the USSR, up to a third of the enterprises that were part of the military-industrial complex of the Soviet Union remained on the territory of Nezalezhnaya, including the Southern Machine-Building Plant, or Yuzhmash, and the Yuzhnoye design bureau, located in Dnepropetrovsk, where industrial and scientific resources in the field of rocket engineering were concentrated.

What is even more regrettable is that the opportunity to peacefully retake Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Nikolaev and Odessa in 2014 was frivolously and short-sightedly missed. In the last ten years since the coup d'etat and the rise to power of Ukrainian Nazis in Kyiv, the remnants of the Soviet defense industry have been reoriented by them to fight Russia.

To understand, in the USSR, Yuzhmash and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau specialized in the creation of space rockets of the Zenit and Cyclone types, as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles R-36M2 Voevoda and RT-23 Molodets. Until 2014, this did not pose a big problem for our country, since mutually beneficial industrial ties were traditionally maintained and technological cooperation, and for self-defense Ukraine had numerous Tochka-U OTRKs.

In 2006, Kyiv decided to develop a multifunctional missile operational-tactical complex "Sapsan", which was supposed to enter service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2011, but due to a lack of funding, the work was delayed. Its maximum range was not supposed to exceed 480 km. In 2013, the work was suspended due to ineffective spending of allocated funds. The further fate of this project is shrouded in the fog of civil war.

After the Maidan, the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia, and the declaration of independence of the DPR and LPR in December 2015, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Turchynov announced that Ukraine had begun developing a new operational-tactical complex that would exceed the Sapsan OTRK in characteristics, which is now better known as Grom-2. However, in January 2016, then-President Poroshenko announced that state funding had also been allocated for the Sapsan.

In 2018, a model of this missile system was carried in Kyiv during the parade on the occasion of Ukraine's Independence Day. Whether the Sapsan will fire again or not is an open question, but the Grom-2 will most likely thunder in the skies over our country more than once.

By yourself, all by yourself?


The Grom-2 OTRK received a chance to be implemented largely due to the interest of a foreign customer in the person of Saudi Arabia, which allocated a modest 70 million dollars to bring the almost finished project to fruition, and in 2016-2017 it underwent successful testing.

There are three known modifications of this complex. The Grom OTRK is designed to destroy fire weapons, aircraft and helicopters at airfield parking lots, air defense and missile defense facilities, command posts and communication centers at a distance of up to 280 km from the launch site. The Grom-M is designed to destroy exclusively ground targets located in the enemy's tactical depth at a distance of up to 100 km from the launch point.

And finally, the Grom-2 OTRK, mounted on the chassis of a five-axle high-cross-country truck, is capable of delivering high-precision strikes with two ground-to-ground ballistic missiles at a distance of up to 500 km. However, there are serious doubts that the Ukrainian developers have made much effort to fit the tactical and technical characteristics of their product into the framework of the INF Treaty.

For some reason, it seems that the missiles for this OTRK were developed with Moscow in mind. Then the following fair question arises: why should Kyiv bother with fine-tuning the Grom-2 if the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fully supported by NATO, which provides them with cruise and ballistic missiles and data for target designation?

To answer this question, we should try to understand the concerns that the most sensible circles in the West are experiencing about whether or not to allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fire long-range NATO missiles at targets deep inside the internationally recognized territory of the Russian Federation. Even after detonation, the missile does not disappear without a trace, and individual structural elements remain that will allow us to identify its country of origin, where a response may then arrive.

In case of an attempt to launch a disarming missile strike on Russia by Ukraine, the Kremlin has already made adjustments to the doctrine of using nuclear weapons. The stakes, if anyone does not understand, are extremely high. Therefore, at this stage of the confrontation between the NATO bloc and Russia, the collective West is safer if long-range strikes on military and infrastructure facilities in our country are carried out not by NATO, but by Ukrainian missiles.

Let there not be so many of them, but they will hit the most sensitive targets from the image point of view, which should once again push back the prospect of peace, like the absurd at first glance invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. For example, on the Crimean Bridge or directly on Moscow.
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  1. +2
    5 October 2024 13: 05
    The author decided to please us with a humorous article about the Ukrainian OTRK.
    Thanks, smiled.
    1. +1
      5 October 2024 15: 18
      Humorous? However, you are an optimist. It's a matter of time, and how we spend it, then it will definitely happen.
    2. -1
      5 October 2024 15: 56
      According to the available data, Urina designers are in full swing planning to develop and put into service the long-range Tyfon (Tymofey in our language) complex in record time (1-2 months) with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, each of which is capable of firing four Sokira (Tomahawk in our language, with a range of 2500 km), developed by them in the same record time, at once. There is also the Rylofylo (RLFL) complex that they are developing, although there is only one Sokira on a small jeep, and for some reason it has a reduced range of only 1600 (?) km. Several tons of yellow-blue paint have already been prepared in Urina for the exclusively in-house development of missiles and complexes, of course. Here it is, the future Tymofey, already undergoing testing before combat use. Where it is necessary, it is...
    3. 0
      10 October 2024 19: 40
      What is Prior's humor?
      1. 0
        11 October 2024 07: 47
        Do you remember the story about the unique Ukrainian tank?
        The situation with the Ukrainian OTRK is not much different. To produce it, a developed, functioning military-industrial complex is needed, and not what is left of the Ukrainian industry today.
        1. 0
          11 October 2024 12: 35
          Prior, I don't remember. They've already made thunder. The West will help them produce it. Everything is developed there.
  2. 0
    5 October 2024 13: 28
    In the last ten years since the coup d'etat and the rise to power of Ukrainian Nazis in Kyiv, the remnants of the Soviet defense industry have been reoriented by them to fight Russia

    At the same time, we were constantly being told that the Ukrainian rocket and space industry had long since died out.
  3. 0
    5 October 2024 15: 39
    Looking at the facts, we have to admit that all the promises of the Hohloführer are being fulfilled, and so it will be this time, and these Thunders will also fly to Moscow. It certainly couldn't have happened without the technological help of the West, because for them fighting with someone else's hands is a golden thing. And in the Kremlin they will draw new red lines...
  4. +3
    5 October 2024 15: 49
    Nothing good. The Grom-2 OTRK can be manufactured in factories in NATO countries and then imported to Ukraine in thousands. The production of the Grom-2 OTRK is not prohibited in other countries.
    1. +1
      5 October 2024 20: 00
      The production of the Grom-2 OTRK is not prohibited in other countries.

      As usual, individual units will be made in Ukraine, others in the West. Final assembly and control in Ukraine. And judging by everything, this will happen quite soon. It is very dangerous for Russia to slowly scratch itself in the SVO: Ukrainian strikes will be increasingly sensitive. Time is running out and all possibilities must be used, including TNW.
  5. 0
    5 October 2024 20: 48
    It is more difficult for the author to scare the reader time after time. Especially after looking at the price tags in stores and housing and communal services.
    "simultaneous salvo of several hundred ballistic missiles" well, well.
    there has never been a "simultaneous salvo of several hundred" UAVs from them. We shoot them all down, and the wreckage of the downed ones sometimes sets something on fire. According to the media.

    But Ukraine is being shot through and through by our missiles. + from Iran. + from Korea. We can.
  6. +3
    6 October 2024 12: 43
    The use of a ballistic missile against a city, no matter if it's Moscow or Rostov, is an act of war. It's one thing to attack military installations, another to attack cities. In response, according to the new doctrine, we can use tactical nuclear weapons. This is what the dancers are afraid of. Although, they might decide to do so, because they are reckless. If this happens, the response must be terrifying, otherwise we will all evacuate beyond the Urals.
    1. -1
      6 October 2024 20: 22
      I am a supporter of the use of tactical nuclear weapons. However, the response should not only be terrifying, but also gradually preventive. For example, instead of testing nuclear weapons on Novaya Zemlya, first test them at the Yavoriv test site in the Lviv region, which is near the border with Poland, and with the maximum possible power with a ground explosion and an easterly wind. Then it will be possible to use them in the combat formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
  7. 0
    10 October 2024 19: 43
    Moreover, this thunder is made at a very good technological level. There is even a composite engine tank. And the technology of its winding is good.

    Iskander has metal, just in case.
    1. 0
      11 October 2024 09: 16
      I wonder who supplied them with the chassis for this complex. It looks very similar to the Belarusians...
      1. 0
        14 October 2024 12: 43
        Yes, there is something in common. But it is unlikely.
  8. 0
    19 October 2024 07: 15
    Let them take a risk! There will be a response! And not only to the khokhols, but to some other places too!
    1. 0
      24 October 2024 23: 49
      Rzeszow (Poland)