‘12 Tomahawk Missiles At Key Russian Factories’

• 30.10.2024, 12:53

Analysts explained how to leave Russia without long-range weapons.

Ukraine has requested Tomahawk missiles from the United States as part of a “non-nuclear deterrence package” as systems with a firing range several times greater than the ATACMS operational-tactical complexes. This was reported by The New York Times.

At the same time, a high-ranking US official called the fulfillment of this request completely unrealistic.

In any case, Defense Express admits that the discussion was about land-based Tomahawks, which are used in the US Army for medium-range Typhon complexes.

On the one hand, the US Army itself has only two Typhon batteries with four launchers each. On the other hand, the Typhon launcher itself for Tomahawk is based on an improvised solution — a universal Mark 41 launch cell, standard for US Navy surface ships, was installed on a land platform.

In turn, the Jamestown Foundation compiled a table of data on 12 key plants in the Russian missile industry.

It is noted that the Raduga Design Bureau is the plant where the final assembly of the Kh-101 cruise missiles takes place, the NPO Mashinostroyenia design bureau produces P-800 and Zircon missiles, the Votkinsk Plant produces 9M723 ballistic missiles up to the Iskander missile launch systems, and in Soviet times, missiles for the Tochka-U missile launch systems were manufactured there, the NPK KB Mashinostroyenia also produces ballistic missiles for the Iskander complexes.

Ukrainian analysts believe that a strike drone will clearly not be enough to destroy such long-range plants; powerful and long-range “arguments” are required for such a task, and the Tomahawk is perfect for this.

Jamestown Foundation analysts advise Ukraine to develop its own liquid-fueled medium-range ballistic missile as if such a weapon could be developed in a few months, although in reality it would take at least several years, and only under favorable circumstances.