Ukraine Uses Kyiv-Made Guided Missile Systems vs Russians

Ukraine has deployed homegrown guided missile systems to blast Russian tanks, missiles, artillery, aircraft, and infantry formations, BulgarianMilitary.com reported, citing the trade journal Soldat&Technik.

Photo Insert: The Stugna-P missile system

Kyiv has established positions all over Kyiv for the ATGM Skif/Stugna-P missile system manufactured for an Arab customer even as it receives mortars, artillery pieces, anti-tank and anti-aircraft rockets, and missiles worth billions of dollars from the US, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Romania, and Turkey.

Turkey has supplied Ukraine with the highly effective Bayraktar TB2 armed drones that have been attacking Russian tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, missile systems, warplanes, and artillery pieces.

In early 2021, Qatar wanted to procure the Skif, which Ukraine integrated into a remote-controlled turret developed by the Turkish arms company Aselsan. The delivery of the order was scheduled for last year but tensions leading to the Russian invasion derailed such a plan.

The missile designed by the state-owned Luch development office in Kyiv has been in production for a decade and was introduced to the Ukrainian military in 2011. The weapon system uses both 130 mm and 152 mm guided missiles.

In addition to a tandem hollow charge, both versions are also available in an explosive fragmentation variant against buildings or field fortifications. The state-owned Ukroboronprom group also supplied the Skif to Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and Myanmar.

As this developed, ground-to-air missile systems and anti-aircraft systems such as SA-8 (9K33 Osa), SA-10 (S-300 long-range SAM system), SA-12 (S-300V, a long-range SAM system) and SA-14 (9K34 Strela-3 – a man-portable air defense missile system or MANPADS) are being delivered to Ukraine from the US and its NATO allies.

This is separate from the $800-million US military aid comprised of 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems, 2,000 Javelin missiles, 1,000 light anti-armor weapons and 6,000 AT-4 anti-armor systems, 100 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems, 100 grenade launchers, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, and 400 shotguns and more than 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenade launcher and mortar rounds, 25,000 sets of body armor and 25,000 helmets.

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