Ukraine has launched serial production of the Sapsan OTRK, an analogue of the Russian Iskander

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Kyiv has officially announced the launch of the Sapsan operational-tactical missile system (OTRK), also known as Grom-2, into serial production. Its launch range is up to 300 kilometers, and its warhead weighs about 480 kilograms.

Developers and sources in the Ukrainian defense industry say that the missile has already been tested and will now be mass-produced. Allegedly, it was also used against targets in Russia.

The main characteristics are supersonic speed, up to about Mach 5,2, modular architecture and high accuracy. All this makes the Sapsan a direct analogue of the Russian Iskander. This is the first time since the 1990s that Ukraine has announced its independent entry into a full-fledged ballistic platform of the tactical class.

There are a number of nuances behind this success. Firstly, the presence of external assistance in the development. Ukrainian sources spoke about the participation of "European allies" in the project. Apparently, this concerns at least part of the control systems, materials and navigation components. Ukrainian industry is technically incapable of implementing such a project on its own in a short time frame without external technological support. In fact, this is a joint European-Ukrainian product launched under the flag of Ukraine.

Secondly, there remains the question of production capacity. Launching "serial production" in the conditions of daily missile strikes on the Ukrainian defense industry requires either underground workshops or moving production outside the country. In any case, it is still unknown to what extent Ukrainian statements correspond to reality.

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zzdimk

+17

18 June 2025 15: 13

Hazelnut trees should be planted on the territory of the plant. Not just one bush. A grove. A forest.
1. Dimy4
  
  +16
  
  18 June 2025 17: 11
  
  Kremlin inmates should eat walnuts, they say it adds brain power.
  1. rotkiv04
    
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    19 June 2025 09: 58
    
    It won't help, everything has dried up there.
    1. alex-defensor
      
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      13 July 2025 18: 59
      
      Ukraine has launched serial production of the Sapsan OTRK, an analogue of the Russian Iskander
      
      This is not an analogue, but a similar product... You have to use words carefully. The Iskander's range BEFORE the restrictions were lifted was 500 km (and the enemy never stopped repeating that "the Russians are lying"). And after the restrictions were lifted, it was increased to 1000...
      And the independent product has a range of 300 km.
      Moreover, we DO NOT know what its actual flight speed is, we are only told...
      1. Pembo
        
        0
        
        29 July 2025 13: 13
        
        and the enemy never stopped repeating that "the Russians are lying"
        
        The enemy kept talking about the Iskander K missile, a cruise missile with a range of, according to our press, 2600 km.
        
        alex-defensor
        
        0
        
        18 August 2025 16: 12
        
        Quote from Pembo
        The enemy kept talking about the Iskander K missile, a cruise missile with a range of, according to our press, 2600 km.
        
        But no. The first claims regarding violation of the INF Treaty were made by Russia in 2007, since the US began land-based deployment of sea-based universal vertical launchers, claiming that they were only for missile defense. But they are universal... and that says it all, since they can also accommodate "axes"... and these are, as we know, long-range cruise missiles. Russia developed a version of the 9M728 R-500 for a land-based complex, with a flight limitation of up to 500 km, and solutions for a ground-based mobile complex were tested on it. The Americans stated that it would not be difficult to quickly retool for the use of full-fledged 9M728, which is absolutely true (that is why it was all done). To this, ours stated that the US could also deploy missiles in its silos that are not missile defense missiles at all. And this is also absolutely true. Moreover, it must be taken into account that the balance of power, for which the INF Treaty was signed, was disrupted by the very advance of NATO infrastructure to the east. So it no longer made sense for Russia to comply with this agreement....
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2. gxmlygw
  
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  19 June 2025 09: 08
  
  To plant such a grove, it is necessary to grow a large number of elite seedlings, and this is a long and very expensive process.
3. blackcat190463
  
  +4
  
  19 June 2025 15: 02
  
  Which plant, will they bring missiles from Europe, glue or draw a trident and voila, the Ukrainian missile is ready
kriten

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18 June 2025 15: 19

If this is so, then our heads of the special services should be sent to the assault squads to atone with blood for their poor performance in their previous positions.
1. gxmlygw
  
  +3
  
  19 June 2025 09: 09
  
  What are you talking about? Did anyone answer for the failure of the blitzkrieg?
  1. Renat Peter
    
    -1
    
    20 June 2025 22: 07
    
    I don't understand what blitzkrieg you're talking about?
    1. gxmlygw
      
      -1
      
      21 June 2025 00: 20
      
      Yes, it’s all about the same thing that some jingoistic patriots so naively expected 3 years ago.
      1. alex-defensor
        
        +1
        
        24 June 2025 16: 59
        
        Quote: gxmlygw
        Yes, it’s all about the same thing that some jingoistic patriots so naively expected 3 years ago.
        
        Those who "expected a blitzkrieg" were NOT expecting a blitzkrieg at all, but a full-fledged mobilization, a complete transfer of the economy to a war footing, and a quick end to the Ukrainian campaign with a transition to a direct clash with NATO. And NOT at all because Russia needs it that way, but because there WILL be a war in any case! This war is needed by the "West" itself, its hereditary elite and capital.
        
        gxmlygw
        
        0
        
        24 June 2025 20: 02
        
        To expect a "full mobilization" you need to understand what country you live in. In 2022, Russia did not even have normal military registration. My neighbor, a lieutenant colonel, received a summons for mobilization twice in 4 hours in September, but as it turned out later, he had not been eligible for it for a long time due to his age. And there were a lot of such under-mobilized people later. From this, I made a simple conclusion that our Commander-in-Chief does not have and never had a plan "B", he was clearly not preparing for a protracted war. Regarding the complete transfer of the Russian economy to war footing, I would better quote Putin's speech of April 2024, XNUMX:
        
        I would like to draw your attention to the fact that despite all the difficulties of today, we are not putting the economy into wartime mode, there is no such thing... Everything is quite balanced at the moment.
        
        You see, everything is balanced! Private ownership of the means of production will not suffer, there will be no nationalization of enterprises, motor transport, and militarization of the country. We will sleep peacefully.
2. wladimirjankov
  
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  19 June 2025 13: 20
  
  Yes, it looks like someone leaked the documentation on Iskander to the Banderites.
dubas

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18 June 2025 15: 28

Quote: kriten
If this is so, then our heads of the special services should be sent to the assault squads to atone with blood for their poor performance in their previous positions.

Zele needs at least some kind of victory, so they come up with it. It's not a fact that it exists.
1. spectr
  
  +1
  
  19 June 2025 10: 07
  
  Perhaps this is a modernization of the remaining Tochka-U installations. Then it is quite possible to create something in a short time
prior

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18 June 2025 15: 34

Today, the Sapsan can be assembled in any NATO country.
Nobody and nothing interferes.
Trains go back and forth, planes fly, trucks drive, Europe pays.
And Russia, all at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, is engaged in development.
Well, that's understandable. The war is going on.....
1. zzdimk
  
  0
  
  18 June 2025 16: 27
  
  Everyone is now writing about a war of attrition in the East, throwing attention away from the one that is already going on between Russia and the West. Hypocrites. Both journalists who are catching a hare (hype), and bloggers who are doing the same. I myself am not very big and peace-loving, but the desire to challenge all these writers to a duel arises constantly, no matter the pile of diseases, but I want to beat their faces. I really want to. At least for the decadent mood preached. It is indecent now. Absolutely.
  And here I have people with heads constantly flying a flock of MiGs and Sukhois. Well, who? Who, if not them? Let them fly. Sleep better
2. gxmlygw
  
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  19 June 2025 09: 23
  
  Yes, organizing a forum sabbath during a war does not fit into any reasonable framework. But when did the opportunity to profit and have a good rest at the state's expense stop our thieving officials? In 2019, the organization and holding of the PEF cost 3 billion wooden: https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5cf65ee09a7947c998e58b88 More than half of these costs are the costs of state corporations, naturally financed by the budget. I believe the remaining half of the money also comes from the budget, but we are unlikely to find out from which article.
  1. prior
    
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    19 June 2025 09: 27
    
    We are unlikely to find out from which article.
    
    What do you mean from which one?!
    From the National Welfare Fund.
    Some get a fund, and they get prosperity.
    By the way. Information from Russian media:
    
    Lunch at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in the Bashkortostan restaurant will cost 12 thousand rubles.
    
    Is it worth asking about the size of pensions in Russia after this...
    1. Renat Peter
      
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      20 June 2025 22: 13
      
      That's why grannies transfer millions of dollars to scammers... the old ladies are completely underfed)
    2. gxmlygw
      
      +1
      
      21 June 2025 00: 24
      
      Today our President said that there are only 10 million poor people left in Russia, compared to 40 million in 2000. Where did the other 30 million go, I'm afraid to even ask.
      1. prior
        
        0
        
        21 June 2025 09: 19
        
        Where did the other 30 million go?
        
        They didn’t fit into the market and were “written off” as natural losses.
        Well, where else?! Life hasn't become any easier.
3. twigs
  
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  19 June 2025 17: 49
  
  all at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, engaged in
  
  eating breakfasts for 14 thousand rubles.
4. Renat Peter
  
  +1
  
  20 June 2025 22: 09
  
  Do you think life should stop if there is a war?
sannyhome

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18 June 2025 15: 51

We need to adopt this method and also help Iran with air defense and missiles.... )
They helped us.
1. AlOrg
  
  -2
  
  19 June 2025 17: 22
  
  They helped us, but Putin won't quarrel with Bibi. They are his own people.
Yyrp

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18 June 2025 16: 51

You know, as a high-ranking Russian official, I don't care about this Ukrainian "Sapsan". I live with my family in Brussels.
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2. alebdun2000
  
  +4
  
  19 June 2025 03: 38
  
  If you are a Russian official living in Brussels, you are no longer a Russian official. Dissonance
3. Pasha_Kosse
  
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  19 June 2025 07: 02
  
  You know, as a high-ranking Russian official, it makes no difference to me
  
  Have you been fired for absenteeism yet?
  1. Yyrp
    
    0
    
    19 June 2025 10: 09
    
    No, of course no one was fired or even demoted. Read at your leisure how Mr. Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, having become the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, convened an extraordinary meeting. If you are too lazy to read, you can watch a video about it. Very instructive.
4. AdeptV
  
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  19 June 2025 12: 31
  
  Well, this is temporary, you understand.., soon we will be shredding "Brussels sprouts", and very finely. Don't think that you will be mixed up? However, it will be better than falling into the hands of the GRU special forces. It's scary to even imagine what will happen to you..
  1. gxmlygw
    
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    21 June 2025 10: 08
    
    "Falling into the hands of the GRU special forces" is impossible even for Budanov, it is simply not realistic. This special forces is so deeply undercover that no serious results of its work over 3 years of the SVO are visible. But they exist, because you want to believe in it so much.
    1. AdeptV
      
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      21 June 2025 10: 31
      
      The understanding that it is “real” usually comes when nothing can be fixed.
VladZ

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18 June 2025 17: 26

Well, more than half a year ago, the independent country announced the serial production of its "wunderwaffe" drone-rockets Palyanitsya, Trembita, Peklo, Ruta, etc. However, no one has seen them at the front yet...
Dmitry Volkov

0

19 June 2025 05: 15

That's why it will continue at this pace for another 5 years, and there will be big losses...
1. Renat Peter
  
  -1
  
  20 June 2025 22: 16
  
  I don't think these losers will last another 5 years!
Avtandil

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19 June 2025 06: 13

And so we waited. The toothless, cowardly Leopoldian policy leads to exactly this. Since 2022, the entire Internet has been perplexed: why haven't the Dnieper bridges and military factories been destroyed? Why are Zelensky's residences, the SBU, and the Ministry of Defense intact? Why haven't Zelensky himself and his "camarilla" been destroyed? Are they untouchable?
1. Dr.Web911
  
  +5
  
  19 June 2025 07: 40
  
  It looks like the SVO started it so that Russians would die from NATO weapons.
  The population in Russia is changing the village Dzhamshuts.
Avtandil

+4

19 June 2025 10: 04

I will not vote FOR Putin anymore(((...
1. Yyrp
  
  +5
  
  19 June 2025 10: 11
  
  You personally may not vote, the main thing is that the Central Election Commission votes.
2. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
  -1
  
  21 June 2025 09: 37
  
  I will not vote FOR Putin anymore(((...
  
  So the "sharovarniks" can't vote for him
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Ilua

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20 June 2025 19: 53

Oh, what a surprise for our intelligence and military leadership. Oh, what should we do now, we've been deceived again! We're good, we trust everyone, and they're bad - deceivers.
romandostalo

0

23 June 2025 23: 59

I don't believe it at all...