Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’

Russia has no more than 45% of the missiles it had before the start of its full-scale war against Ukraine, a Ukrainian defense ministry official said on Aug. 27.

news.yahoo.com

Part of a missile in the forest after a strike by the Russian military near the village of Vesnyane in Mykolaiv Oblast, August 8, 2022
Vadym Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine that the Russians have a particularly difficult situation with the Iskanders.
He said there are about 20% or less of them left compared to what Russia had at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Due to a lack of effective Kalibr missiles, the invaders are using the Kh-22 and a ground version of the S-300.
Read also: Russia ‘almost definitely’ lying about reasons for halting Ukraine offensive, says UK intelligence
However, stocks of these missiles are also running low.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia has 30-40 hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-surface Kinzhal missiles left, as Russia didn’t have sufficient time to put them into mass production. The invaders used them "to demonstrate strength both to us and to our partners, including the United States and China, showing that they have hypersonic weapons," Skibitsky said.
Read also: Russia fired more than 150 shells and rocket at Sumy Oblast
He said that according to regulatory documents, Russia should maintain a 30% reserve of high-precision missiles "but (reserves are) almost non-existent when it comes to some types of missiles."
“Like with the Iskander missiles for example,” Skibitsky said. “So, Russia will use other methods of destruction. They are now actively using Uragan and Smerch rocket systems – these are short-range, at 70, 80, up to a maximum of 100 kilometers.”
Read also: Russian invading forces hit Zhytomyr Oblast with missiles fired from Belarusian territory
He added that with these systems, invading Russian forces will try to destroy the infrastructure of Ukrainian cities, heating network facilities, and battle formations, as well as exert psychological pressure on the population.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Aug. 22 that Russia had fired almost 3,500 rockets and missiles into Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported that out of 20 missiles fired, only one hit a military facility, the rest hit civilian infrastructure.






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[Hack-Hook]

Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’

Russia has no more than 45% of the missiles it had before the start of its full-scale war against Ukraine, a Ukrainian defense ministry official said on Aug. 27.

news.yahoo.com

Part of a missile in the forest after a strike by the Russian military near the village of Vesnyane in Mykolaiv Oblast, August 8, 2022
Vadym Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine that the Russians have a particularly difficult situation with the Iskanders.
He said there are about 20% or less of them left compared to what Russia had at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Due to a lack of effective Kalibr missiles, the invaders are using the Kh-22 and a ground version of the S-300.
Read also: Russia ‘almost definitely’ lying about reasons for halting Ukraine offensive, says UK intelligence
However, stocks of these missiles are also running low.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia has 30-40 hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-surface Kinzhal missiles left, as Russia didn’t have sufficient time to put them into mass production. The invaders used them "to demonstrate strength both to us and to our partners, including the United States and China, showing that they have hypersonic weapons," Skibitsky said.
Read also: Russia fired more than 150 shells and rocket at Sumy Oblast
He said that according to regulatory documents, Russia should maintain a 30% reserve of high-precision missiles "but (reserves are) almost non-existent when it comes to some types of missiles."
“Like with the Iskander missiles for example,” Skibitsky said. “So, Russia will use other methods of destruction. They are now actively using Uragan and Smerch rocket systems – these are short-range, at 70, 80, up to a maximum of 100 kilometers.”
Read also: Russian invading forces hit Zhytomyr Oblast with missiles fired from Belarusian territory
He added that with these systems, invading Russian forces will try to destroy the infrastructure of Ukrainian cities, heating network facilities, and battle formations, as well as exert psychological pressure on the population.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Aug. 22 that Russia had fired almost 3,500 rockets and missiles into Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported that out of 20 missiles fired, only one hit a military facility, the rest hit civilian infrastructure.






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well after the end of war with iraq we built lots and lots and lots of Zelzal missile in hope of exporting them , nobody wanted them so we stored them for ourselves , they were in accurate as hell so several year ago we started a progect to add some guidance kit to them , we have lots of them (you can count in 10s of thousands of them) after equipping those guidance kit to them their accuracy improved a lot (not pinpoint accuracy like Fateh family of missile , but around 30m which is very good considering the warhead is more than half ton and many of them also have frag warhead) i'm sure if they ask for them we can gladly send those missile to them .
they depend on the model have a range of 200-400km and the war head is 500-600kg also they must be compattible with russian launchers as some source point to their similarity with Luna-M .


but as I said they must ask for them , with the number we store of them they can level any industry and military base in ukraine and still have spare for another round, but we can't force it on them they must ask for help in that regard

 

[Muhammed45]

What a joke. Yahoo is one of the most ridiculous sources that you could find.

Russia is running out of Iskander! How can one run out of something that was produced without foreign help?

Which part of these missiles was imported from outside that makes it impossible to produce it inhouse?

I an other joke quoted from Ukrainian joker, we can see this :
"to demonstrate strength both to us and to our partners, including the United States and China, showing that they have hypersonic weapons," Skibitsky said.

 

[nahtanbob]

well after the end of war with iraq we built lots and lots and lots of Zelzal missile in hope of exporting them , nobody wanted them so we stored them for ourselves , they were in accurate as hell so several year ago we started a progect to add some guidance kit to them , we have lots of them (you can count in 10s of thousands of them) after equipping those guidance kit to them their accuracy improved a lot (not pinpoint accuracy like Fateh family of missile , but around 30m which is very good considering the warhead is more than half ton and many of them also have frag warhead) i'm sure if they ask for them we can gladly send those missile to them .
they depend on the model have a range of 200-400km and the war head is 500-600kg also they must be compattible with russian launchers as some source point to their similarity with Luna-M .


but as I said they must ask for them , with the number we store of them they can level any industry and military base in ukraine and still have spare for another round, but we can't force it on them they must ask for help in that regard

I am supposed to believe missiles stay operational for 30 years in storage depots

 

[alimobin memon]

What a joke, says ukrainian sources.

 

[HydraChess]

Russia running out of missiles? what a joke!
Russia can put together as many Tochka and Oka missiles as they want to bombard entire Ukraine.

 

[khansaheeb]

Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’

Russia has no more than 45% of the missiles it had before the start of its full-scale war against Ukraine, a Ukrainian defense ministry official said on Aug. 27.

news.yahoo.com

Part of a missile in the forest after a strike by the Russian military near the village of Vesnyane in Mykolaiv Oblast, August 8, 2022
Vadym Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine that the Russians have a particularly difficult situation with the Iskanders.
He said there are about 20% or less of them left compared to what Russia had at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Due to a lack of effective Kalibr missiles, the invaders are using the Kh-22 and a ground version of the S-300.
Read also: Russia ‘almost definitely’ lying about reasons for halting Ukraine offensive, says UK intelligence
However, stocks of these missiles are also running low.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia has 30-40 hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-surface Kinzhal missiles left, as Russia didn’t have sufficient time to put them into mass production. The invaders used them "to demonstrate strength both to us and to our partners, including the United States and China, showing that they have hypersonic weapons," Skibitsky said.
Read also: Russia fired more than 150 shells and rocket at Sumy Oblast
He said that according to regulatory documents, Russia should maintain a 30% reserve of high-precision missiles "but (reserves are) almost non-existent when it comes to some types of missiles."
“Like with the Iskander missiles for example,” Skibitsky said. “So, Russia will use other methods of destruction. They are now actively using Uragan and Smerch rocket systems – these are short-range, at 70, 80, up to a maximum of 100 kilometers.”
Read also: Russian invading forces hit Zhytomyr Oblast with missiles fired from Belarusian territory
He added that with these systems, invading Russian forces will try to destroy the infrastructure of Ukrainian cities, heating network facilities, and battle formations, as well as exert psychological pressure on the population.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Aug. 22 that Russia had fired almost 3,500 rockets and missiles into Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported that out of 20 missiles fired, only one hit a military facility, the rest hit civilian infrastructure.






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NATO is pussy footing around. They should create a supply line to support the Ukrainians to attack Belarus directly. This will create a panic in Moscow and force them to the negotiating table.

 

[drmeson]

 

[HydraChess]

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Its a MARV and not HGV. But this not a war to use long range missile. Cheap rocket artillery is all u need. That and some short range missiles to hit ukraine. Not more than 500 km range.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Its a MARV and not HGV. But this not a war to use long range missile. Cheap rocket artillery is all u need. That and some short range missiles to hit ukraine. Not more than 500 km range.

I think Tornado-S with 120 km range GLONASS guided rockets is sufficient.

Tornado (multiple rocket launcher) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[drmeson]

Its a MARV and not HGV. But this not a war to use long range missile. Cheap rocket artillery is all u need. That and some short range missiles to hit ukraine. Not more than 500 km range.

Read again, its a near HGV not HGV. Separating GV with comes down at target at ~4-5 mach from a depressed Skip glide trajectory.

and I presented what title says Russia is lacking Iskander and Kalibre. Qassem GV and Hoveyzeh CM are what can supplement the Russian numbers. They are already using our UCAVs so we are balls deep into this conflict already. Why not help the strategic ally.

 

[Hack-Hook]

I am supposed to believe missiles stay operational for 30 years in storage depots

each year we take out several of them from storage and fire them in war-games, and as i said several year ago we upgraded them with guidance kit, my guess is when they did that they checked the rest of the system

 

[HydraChess]

Read again, its a near HGV not HGV. Separating GV with comes down at target at ~4-5 mach from a depressed Skip glide trajectory.

If you want to rename "MARVs" as "Near HGV" that will not change the standard terminology everywhere.

The technical term for HGV is "Boost Glide" which means using aerodynamic lift to exit atmosphere once more and coast in a ballistic trajectory to extend range. Difference from MARV is that MARV only uses aerodynamic lift in the final phase of its trajectory... which is what your missile is doing.

I have seen my own country men do it too.. With short range Prithivi missile no less. Just because a missile uses upper atmosphere to change its trajectory from purely ballistic to a glide one, it does not make them HGV or anything. Its just an maneuvering warhead with fins.

 

[drmeson]

If you want to rename "MARVs" as "Near HGV" that will not change the standard terminology everywhere.

if wordplay is so important then what do we call a vehicle that is not hypersonic proper but near to hypersonic then? near-HGV? or something else.

The technical term for HGV is "Boost Glide" which means using aerodynamic lift to exit atmosphere once more and coast in a ballistic trajectory to extend range. Difference from MARV is that MARV only uses aerodynamic lift in the final phase of its trajectory... which is what your missile is doing.

You are wrong I am afraid because you are assuming that RV on this missile has to maneuver only near the end of the flight when its about to hit the target. My question is why? Mild level steering or manuvering of RV on this system happens at endoatmospherically at high altitude after which the RV gains speed to near-HGV domain and does not have to steer itself again.

Look at the trajectory in slide, its very depressed-Skip-Glide to gain K.E at the end of which mild-steering happens so that speed is not lost.

Before this missile test, IRGC has been operating MaRVs on SRBM to Solid fueled IRBM for decade+ with Ballisstic trajectory. We needed this new system to clear off hostile ABMs.

 

[HydraChess]

if wordplay is so important then what do we call a vehicle that is not hypersonic proper but near to hypersonic then? near-HGV? or something else.

Call it ... maneuverable re-entry vehicle? Like everyone else does? Since it is a ballistic missile, hypersonic part is understood.