Russian special military operation in Ukraine #45

Ukraine Helps Russia Get Secrets of Storm Shadow Missile, by Daria Volkova, Evgeny Pozdnyakov for VZGLYAD. 07.07.2023.

The Russian army got its hands on the most valuable trophy - the Franco-British Storm Shadow missile, with which the enemy strikes rear targets from long distances. What are the features of this missile and how will the analysis of its "stuffing" affect the tactics of countering such systems?

On the eve of the Russian military from the volunteer detachment "Bars-11"  captured  the Franco-British cruise missile Storm Shadow. This  was reported to RIA Novosti  by the head of the Military-Technical Center "Tsarskie Wolves" Dmitry Rogozin. According to him, the projectile was only partially destroyed, as it fell flat.

“The missile was divided into several parts by our technical specialists right on the battlefield. The high-explosive and cumulative parts are separate, the control unit is separate, the wing is folded for ease of transportation, ”Rogozin said. He added that the warhead uses very high-level electronics.

In his  Telegram channel  , Rogozin noted that the rocket’s materiel had to be taken out of the “gray zone” of the line of contact under shelling. In addition, Ukrainian saboteurs tried to intercept a car with a rocket and an escort car on the way. The operation to evacuate the captured Storm Shadow lasted two days.

Currently, the projectile was sent to one of the defense enterprises of Moscow. Rogozin noted that specialists will study the algorithms of the weapon control system and share them with air defense experts, which will make it possible to find an "antidote" for our electronic warfare systems.

The American edition of  The Drive  writes that the missile could be of great intelligence value to Russia. It is noted that in the design of Storm Shadow applied solutions that provide stealth. According to the newspaper, the materials from which the projectile is made, as well as the design of the warhead, may be useful for the RF Armed Forces.

The ammunition received an inertial guidance system with GPS correction, and at the final stage of the flight, the rocket uses an infrared homing head (GOS) with automatic target recognition. According to the publication, the study of the GOS, on-board electronics and software will allow you to find weaknesses in the rocket.

“First of all, the analysis of Storm Shadow will allow you to find out exactly what composite materials the rocket consists of. This information will be an important step towards the improvement of our EW stations. In addition, Russia gets the opportunity to disassemble the inertial guidance system of the projectile in detail, ” military expert Yuri Knutov told the VZGLYAD newspaper.

“Movement to the target of Storm Shadow is carried out in three phases. At the first stage, the warhead receives data from the base, which makes it possible to accurately direct the missile to the required square. Then, already in flight, the projectile reads the data from the GPS system. Thus, the correction of the trajectory takes place directly in the air,” the interlocutor notes.

"At the last stage, a thermal homing system is activated, which at lightning speed compares the image of the target embedded in the rocket with what the projectile camera sees. Such a three-phase system allows you to strike with maximum accuracy. Now the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have the opportunity to study this system from the inside", the expert emphasizes.

“Moreover, after a detailed study, countering projectiles will become cheaper, since we will be able to focus more on electronic warfare systems, although previously we had to use Pantsir ammunition,” the source emphasizes.

“It is difficult to accurately estimate the time needed to analyze Storm Shadow. However, as practice shows, a detailed review can take about a month. Nevertheless, the most important data will appear within a week of the start of comprehensive work in this area,” sums up Knutov.

“The Anglo-French Storm Shadow cruise missile is a valuable trophy for our defense industry. Research institutes will fully study this missile, its strengths and weaknesses, technical capabilities, and so on,” said Aitech Bizhev, ex-Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force for the joint air defense system of the CIS member states.

“It is especially valuable that in the conditions of hostilities and an obvious conflict with NATO, we managed to get such a sample. If we want to introduce some of the technologies used there, we will do it, we will adopt it,” he said.

“But the most important thing is that we will be able to improve our air defence system.

To do this, on the basis of the data obtained, analogues of missiles will be created - targets, according to which the calculations of air defense systems will learn to work, ”the expert argues. “Of course, the British and French will somehow react to what happened, modernize their system. But we are not talking about some very significant changes that take a lot of time. Most likely, they will make some technical improvements,” he added.

“In general, as part of a special military operation, we study every day, study the enemy in real military operations. Our army has gained invaluable experience in countering the entire arsenal that NATO has, and for all branches of the military,” Bizhev concluded.

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ahmedfire wrote:Russia should start using cluster bombs widely

Agreed. Any escalation on part of Ukraine or NATO needs a powerful response and therefore more Ukrainian and NATO militants needs to get slaughtered.

Get a point by accident. Russkie are using cluster ammo since the very beginning.

@Dr., couldn't say that better.

Instead of Ukr in NATO, Robinette in a suicidal move opted for cluster munitions to the terrorists. Response should be decisive blows in SVO (through counterstrikes before Vilnius) and Syria.

ucmvulcan wrote:Now if you want nuclear war, well that depends on what happens in the 2024 elections in America and after. I am far less hopeful that the Republicans would seek to end this war peacefully than many on here are. Anyways, if you want nuclear war you may very well end up with it. I just hope none of us ever experiences that..

But is Russia's arsenal of 1,600+ deployed warheads and 5,800+ nukes in stockpile enough to permanently eradicate NATO to extinction? NATO is like a Cancer that needs to be eradicated down to the single atom to prevent its filth from proliferating again. This is why Russia needs a minimum of 55,000 active warheads ready for lunch in a short notice with 100 megatons each for guaranteed Destruction of Russia's foes.

So the US is providing Ukraine with another $800 million worth of weapons, including cluster bombs. Although we are aware that the US and its NATO Lapdogs have been providing weapons to Ukraine from the beginning, perhaps it can no longer be denied that NATO is brazenly arming Ukraine with the aim of Killing Russians.

With this in mind, its only rational and fair for Russia to start shipping weapons to all parties that are hostile to NATO, and the sooner we see NATO creeps Killed inside and outside of Ukraine with the help of Russian weapons, the better.