Ukrainian air defense knocked down the X-32 missile, which Russia released in 2023 (photo)

According to journalists, X-32 struck the anti-aircraft missile. The published pictures are the fragments of a rocket with holes in the right console of the wings. The Ukrainian air defense has shot down the supersonic winged rocket X-32, which the Russian military industry issued in 2023. About it writes the portal "Military". It is reported that X-32 struck the anti-aircraft missile.

In the published pictures there are fragments of a rocket that shows holes from the striking elements in the right console of the wings. X-32 is a deep modernization of the X-22 Air-Earth rocket, which has been developed since the late 80's by the Raduga Design Bureau. After the collapse of the USSR, the work was stopped several times. The development was restored in the mid-1990s and tested in 1998. In the future, there was no money to modernize the planned TU-22M3 carrier.

The tests continued only in 2008, when the TU-22M3 was converted. The rocket plane tests were held at the end of July 2013. During the flight, there were rocket launchers. At the end of 2016, the X-32 missile was officially armed and 30 TU-22m3 aircraft in TU-22m3m were scheduled to be modernized. The new rocket has the same case as the X-22, but has a more powerful engine. Due to the reduction of the combat part, fuel tanks were increased.

Among other things, the deep modernization of the rocket has received new obstacle protection. It is about a protected radar-inertial guidance system with radio command correction and attachment to the terrain. The speed of the X-32 flight is 3. 5-4. 6 Mach, the range is due to the increased tank 600-1000 km. We will remind that the blow on Janka was struck by ATACMS rockets with 8 thousand small granhers.