Ukraine tests first ballistic missile in major wartime leap announced by Zelensky

by daily_mirror

24 comments
  1. If other nations won’t allow longer distance misses like ATACMS, build them yourself. The skunk-works like projects that must be happening there must be unreal.

  2. first time ever i read about ballistic missile development and i am glad it’s happening

  3. Yeah… I hope there are a bunch of military specialists from Nato helping them behind the scenes to speed up the research/testing and mass produce them. Get around the restrictions and shorten the war.

  4. A new jet powered cruise missile/drone AND a new ballistic missile? Hell yes. More. What parts do they need? Can they run on chips pulled out of refrigerators? Can I send them parts? More. Fucking MORE.

  5. Well if you don’t let us battle test your hardware and publicize it to help with your sales

    We’ll just build our own and sell it as battle tested and with less strings attached 🤷🏻‍♂️

  6. While russia continues to pull out older and older weapons, Ukraine, on the other hand, invents modern weapons. And Ukrainian weapons get better and better by the day. Soon, russia will be using t-34s, and Ukraine will fly a drone missile up putins ass. What does russia expect to achieve? They haven’t invented even a dozen new weapons since the start of the war. They buy drones from Iran and use American chips on their missiles. Thank God He didn’t give Russians creative and inventive mindsets. Or maybe He did, but they drank away any creativity they had. Nevertheless, Ukraine has already invented over 100 various drones since the start of the war. That’s not including the other weapons they invented, like assault rifles, sniper rifles, IFV, etc. There is no way russia has a chance of winning if this continues this way. I have no doubt that Ukraine will soon create a long distance mini drone that really will be able to fly up putins ass.

  7. With all due respect to Ukrainians, as I’m aware they’re a very creative, intelligent and adaptable people, i hope the west is drip feeding them information on the production of these missiles. We may not be willing to give them the missiles but what’s stopping us from giving them the information to produce them domestically and hit russia where it hurts. Great news.

  8. Yesssss! I’ve been saying for a year, the HRIM 2 balistic missile has the potential to be the most important weapon in ukraines arsenal

  9. Ukraine used to make giant rockets back in USSR I’m sure there are people left who can revive it

  10. Damn i love the Ukrainians. Half my family is Ukrainian and those ppl don’t take shit from no one. Kind of like the Irish. They are bringing the fight back to russia and moscow.. a country 20x smaller and 4x less populated.. all that with secondary grade weapons, and hasty training on most of it (ok prob a ton on intel though). Imagine if they had top tier arsenal yet… russia would already be conquered

  11. Although aërodynamical not ideal I really hope they gave it the shape of a huge D. No better way to show that ruzzians are f*ed.

  12. Let’s all remember that much of Russian military technology is actually Ukrainian….from Antonov aircraft to warships.

  13. Probably this:

    **Hrіm-2**, **Grom** or **OTRK Sapsan** ([Ukrainian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language): ОТРК “Сапсан”,[lit.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation) ’peregrine falcon’),[^([1])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrim-2#cite_note-1) also known as **Operational-Tactical Missile System Hrim** ([Ukrainian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language): Оперативно-тактичний ракетний комплекс «Грім»,[romanized](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian): *Operatyvno-taktychnyi raketnyi kompleks “Hrim”*,[lit.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation) ’thunder’), is a [Ukrainian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine) [short-range ballistic missile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-range_ballistic_missile) system being developed by [KB Pivdenne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KB_Pivdenne) and [PA Pivdenmash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA_Pivdenmash), designed to combine the features of a tactical missile system and a multiple rocket launcher. The original Sapsan version of the missile, for Ukraine’s own use, was to have a range of 500 kilometers.[^([2])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrim-2#cite_note-2) The later Hrim-2 version, developed for export, has a range limited to 280 kilometers, in order to fall within the 300-kilometre limit set by the [Missile Technology Control Regime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Technology_Control_Regime), which seeks to limit the proliferation of missiles and missile technology.

    |Warhead|500 kg (1,100 lb)|
    |:-|:-|
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    |Engine|Single-stage solid propellant|
    |Operational range|50 km (31 mi) – 400–500 km (250–310 mi)Warhead 500 kg (1,100 lb)Engine Single-stage solid propellantOperationalrange 50 km (31 mi) – 400–500 km (250–310 mi)|

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