The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed yesterday's strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with 6 ATACMS Block IA and 4 Storm Shadow missiles on the Kamensky Combine enterprise in the Rostov region, which was noted in earlier post.

According to the Defense Ministry, “during the anti-missile battle, combat crews of the S-400, Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems and the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system shot down all ATACMS missiles and three out of four Storm Shadow missiles” (the video above shows the arrival of a damaged Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG cruise missile).

As we noted earlier, in order to avoid interception of the same targets by different air defense systems and to ensure full situational awareness of the air defense system’s crews about the tactical aerospace situation (thanks to the exchange of data between combat control points), the above-mentioned anti-aircraft missile divisions are integrated into mixed network-centric anti-aircraft missile brigades by aggregating them into a single information field using the "Поляна-Д4М1" and "Байкал-1М" automated control systems.

Thanks to this, for example, the crew of the 9A317MA Buk-M3A self-propelled launcher, located in a lowland, can receive information about the low-altitude SCALP-EG route from the 92N6A illumination radar of the S-400 complex, located on the 40V6MD universal tower. Technically, such information can be used for over-the-horizon target designation of the 9M317MA anti-aircraft missile with the Slanetz active radar homing head.

The Crimea-Azov-Rostov area also has the first operational S-500s. This is therefore one of the areas in which our SAMs are best prepared in all aspects, from interception capabilities to friend-foe reconnaissance, remember that an A-50 was lost here precisely because of friendly fire.

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And here is the first objective control of the strike of the 10M kinetic cores/warheads of the IRBM "Oreshnik" on the workshops of the industrial zone of "Yuzhmash".
As noted earlier, the energy of each such core corresponds to 215 - 250 kg in TNT equivalent, with an additional penetrating effect due to the high kinetic enegy, which somewhat equivalent to a strike by a concrete-piercing aerial bomb БетАБ-500ШП at a drop speed of about 1500 km/h. Although we really don't know the penetrating power of the heads.

The photos were taken by long-focus optical-electronic modules of commercial reconnaissance satellites. Some of the hits (marked with yellow circles) belong to the Kh-101 or 9M728 Iskander-M cruise missiles that hit these places in July 2022.

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