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Caliber missiles are based on electronics dating to 1970s- Defense Express editor-in-chief Katkov

15 July, 2022 Friday
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Oleg Katkov, the Defense Express chief editor, has said that in 99 instances of their use, the Russian forces take the combined strike approach. This means that either four or six missiles are launched. If three missiles are launched, one either doesn't take off due to a technological defect, or falls somewhere after launch.

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A military expert commented on the strike by Caliber missiles, which Russia carried on Vinnytsia on July 14.

"I'm sure that in such launches, combined strikes are used, in which not one missile is fired, but they work simultaneously. In 99 cases, this military weapon is divided into two, that is, there could be four missiles or six. The fact that we counted three missiles, means at least one fell somewhere along the way. Small missile ships of project 21631 Buyan-M can carry four missiles on board. Therefore, it means that if three missiles were launched, one either did not fly due to a technological defect, or somewhere  fell after the launch. It must be understood that the readiness of these missiles is based on the technological base of the 70s, that is, the level of electronics that was in the Soviet Union in the 60s and 70s is now on Calibers," explained the editor-in-chief of Defense Express.

Oleg Katkov noted that it is not so important where the missiles were launched from, or from submarines, where hundreds of war criminals, or where fifty criminals, from a small missile ship of the Buyan-M class, in any case should be involved in this crime  punished for a terrorist act.

"In the Kremlin, they say the accuracy of these missiles is 2-3 meters, but in practice the parameters are many times overstated, because the Russians produce such weapons for export. Since we have already had more than one strike with Calibres, we see an accuracy of approximately 200-300 meters, but there was not a single military object in Vinnytsia, even within a radius of a kilometer from the place of impact," the military expert noted.

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