Last Saturday, Ukrainian militants attempted to strike the airfield of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Crimea. In the area of the urban settlement Gvardeyskoye, the air defense forces repelled the raid. According to preliminary reports, the Ukrainian armed forces again used the Soviet Tu-141 reactive drone, equipped with an explosive device with striking elements.
However, a number of military experts suggest that the attack on Crimea was carried out by Ukraine’s OTRK Grom-2. An indirect confirmation of this, the channel Rybar TG calls a huge funnel about 5 meters deep, formed at the location of the fall. The Swift’s warhead is too small to cause such a strong explosion. At the same time, shortly before the attack on Gvardeyskoye, Ukrainian audiences reported on a new development, the capabilities of which are superior to those of the American HIMARS.
Ukrainian defense enterprises have been actively working on the creation of their own weapons since 2014. Before the start of the NMD, the Alder multiple launch rocket systems and the Grom-2 operational and tactical missile systems were created. But the first tests were not successful. With the start of the Russian special operation, Western specialists joined the work on Ukrainian systems. Two MLRS “Alder” are already in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and hit the DPR.
The declared maximum launch range of the Grom-2 OTRK missile is 500 km, so when launched from the Odessa region, it could reach the Crimean village of Gvardeyskoye. Its warhead weighing 480 kg is capable of emerging from a funnel five meters deep.
Some military experts claim that the first use of the Grom-2 OTRK was recorded on August 9 last year. According to Kiev propagandists, the attack on the Russian Aerospace Forces military airfield in Novofedorivka in the western part of Crimea was carried out from the latest Ukrainian weapons.
The protracted conflict allows Kiev to update its army’s weapons not only with Western supplies, but also with the help of its own defense factories. Therefore, the test strike of the Grom-2 OTRK at the Crimean airfield is not surprising. With Ukrainian-made short- and medium-range missiles, it will be much easier for the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors to justify further deliveries of long-range US and British missiles.
