The Russian Federation charges the Ball Complex to the border: KMVA is considered to be the X-35U missiles with a new call for air defense
The KMVA press service writes about it, referring to an interview with the commander of the 96th anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Center Center Colonel Sergei Yaremenko. Thus, the military administration of Kyiv responded to the command of the command that the Russian Federation is transferring to the border regions with Ukraine the missile complex "Ball", equipped with X-35 missiles.
The military leadership of the capital believes that such weapons will be a new challenge to the forces of Air Force, which protect the sky over the region. "In particular, for the 96th anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Center Air Command. They shocked everyone on May 4-the first in the world destroyed the aerobalist missile" Dagger ". No country had such experience. And they did!" in the post of administration.
The KMVA also quoted the words of the commander of the 96th anti-aircraft missile command "Center" by Colonel Sergiy Yaremenko, who told in an interview "Army Inform" on the destruction of aerobalist missiles Simultaneously with a dozen other ballistic missiles . . . We have withstood crazy air attacks on Kiev in May, not allowing any of more than 200 targets to accurately impress objects in the capital, "Yaremenko said.
He said he was always proud of his subordinates, but this time he was shocked by their endurance. The military understood that they were moving ballistic missiles directly, but they did not spanned for a moment, but acted harmoniously and organized. "I was in touch with the division commander and understood what a serious professional and moral test. After the report" Air Space is pure, all the goals destroyed "no one kept the emotions destroyed," Yaremenko shared the details.
As reported on the General Staff on June 15, the Russian military began to increase the number of tactical groups of missile troops in the territories with Ukraine, which poses an increased threat of missile strikes in a number of regions of the country. "The enemy increases the number of tactical groups of missile troops in border areas with Ukraine. , the range of shooting allows to strike in the territories of Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
At the same time, the representative of the General Staff emphasized that the Russian military was concentrated for purposes related to logistics, industrial sites, as well as oil and gas supply. Ball missile systems are coastal complexes designed to protect coastal objects from sea attacks, as well as for controlling territorial waters and straits. Complexes perform combat missions in difficult weather and nights day .
The Ball Complex includes four starting installations, each of which contains eight X-35U missiles, which gives the complex an opportunity for a total volley of 32 winged missiles. The X-35U rocket has a radar head (GSN), moves at a speed of up to 300 m/s, capable of flying at low altitude and almost imperceptible to radars.
The stated range of modernized X-35 missiles is more than 300 km (before modernization, the range was up to 260 km), which if this information is true, allows the upgraded X-35U to fly from the Bryansk region to Kiev. At the same time, according to the National Resistance Center, the Ball Complex was armed with winged X-35/35-U rockets, which after the modernization of 2021 received a range up to 500 km instead of the initial 260 km.