The Russian Federation attacked rockets with a cassette charge: what is the difficulty of their interception - Kovalenko

The Soviet SCR, the expert said, do not allow to effectively hit the cassette warheads. Unlike Western systems, which, on the contrary, work on the principle of point interception. On November 28, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck a missile strike in Ukraine with the use of cassette combat units (BC). In total, Russia used 85 permucosal winged missiles-57 of them were X-101 of the air base, and 28 maritime base 3m14 "Caliber".

In this regard, the coordinator of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko spoke about the complexity of intercepting such missiles. According to the expert, Soviet air defense systems, which make up a large part of Ukraine's defense, are striking by blasting the rocket near it. For conventional unitary combat units, this is effective: the fragile forming field can destroy the rocket and prevent detonation of its charge.

However, for cassette warheads, rocket blasting does not guarantee the destruction of subbov -supplies that can still crumble and harm. For example, Soviet anti-aircraft missile complexes (SACs), even such as C-400, have been designed to protect against goals with unitary BC. But their shrapnel ammunition does not provide accurate damage to the combat part of the rocket, which makes the cassette bchm less effective.

Meanwhile, Western systems, such as Patriot, are equipped with PAC-3 MSE missiles, on the contrary, operate on the principle of point interception. "This is the essence. While the same Patriot SAC is focused on intercepting the target behind the trajectory of its flight, with direct damage to the BC, virtually all Soviet and Russian systems are focused on undermining somewhere nearby," Kovalenko writes.

The expert added that this approach was demonstrated during the destruction of the X-47M2 "dagger" when the Ukrainian air defense was able to cope effectively with the threat through Western equipment. Thus, the threat from the cassette combat units used in X-101 and Calibers becomes a serious challenge for the Ukrainian air defense. The adaptation of Russian weapons indicates the need for similar adaptation of defense systems.