In Video: Russian Kh-35 Cruise Missile Erases Ukrainian Aerial Surveillance Radar

In Video: Russian Kh-35 Cruise Missile Erases Ukrainian Aerial Surveillance Radar

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The Russian military has destroyed a Soviet-made ST-68 aerial surveillance radar of Kiev forces in the Nikolaev using a Kh-35 cruise missile.

Video footage of the strike surfaced online on August 1. The radar, which was deployed close to the settlement of Polyana, was directly hit by the missile. The strike destroyed the radar as well as its command vehicle and generator. Russian media reported that some 25 Ukrainian troops were also killed or wounded.

The ST-68 is a 3D aerial surveillance radar with a range up to 150 kilometers. The radar can be used with Soviet-made air defense systems, like the S-300.

The Kh-35 is a subsonic anti-ship cruise missile with a land-attack capability. The latest version of the missile is equipped with a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system along with an active radar homing head. It has a range of up to 260 kilometers and can cruise as low as four meters from the surface to avoid detection.

The missile can be fired from warplanes, like the Su-34 fighter bomber, a land-based multiple launch system dubbed Bal or from warships using systems like the KT-184 naval launcher.

In recent months, the Russian military began relying more on Kh-35 missiles to hit Ukrainian radars and air defenses. The high-precision, long range and stealth of the missile as well as the ability to launch it from air, land or sea made it perfect for suppression of enemy air defenses, or SEAD, operations.

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Vladolf

and in mali? they were taught a lesson, half dead other half prisoners that for putin don’t exist lol, humiliating fefeats are not assumed, driven out of africa

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CentralAsianStudies

and immediately afterwards a massive chunk of those terrorists that were supported funded and controlled by usa and company under guise of ukriane were wiped off the planet. their is video of rhe retaliation if you wanna see. bombed the hell out of them. also a reminder that us pmcs are killed all the time in syria, and iraq. but you never hear about it.

Satanic Nephilim Host Scum!

you almost sound like president putin personally wronged you in some way. 😂🤣😂

Walking Tall

he’s just jealous that his country was sold into perpetual servitude to international cabals while russia stands tall on its own.

Satanic Nephilim Host Scum!

and fyi it’s was over 900 terrorists against 100 malian troops including wagner pmcs, so go figure.

gilberto posada

troll desiformador……….

A.H.

now give that to yemen, syria, palestine, libanon. and zionist and yankees will be punnishd !!!

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Sorin

liquidate all the terrorists in africa, free africa from the colonial exploitation that has been going on for hundreds of years.

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Ukraine and Israel

if israel is that guy who takes a fat turd on the wedding table and wonders off shamelessly, ukraine is that guy who sells his mother to a brothel for a few shekels

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George

destroy muslim arabs. they are not supposed to be in africa anyway.

gilberto posada

las armas sovieticas siguen dando guerra……..por eso no pueden con rusia, heredera de esa tecnologia.

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The Final Act

ukraine wishes now that it hadn’t sold off half their soviet weaponry 20 years ago to make a fast buck.