"The Russians have to shoot." As in the Russian Federation, the airfield in the Crimea - at Defense Express minimized the number of versions. Interview

Explosions at the military airfield with Russian equipment in the occupied Crimea on August 9 opened a new page in the war against the Russian Federation. Experts report unprecedented losses, but which caused the ignition until it remains unknown. But Defense Express has already narrowed the number of versions. The editor -in -chief of the military portal Oleg Katkov in an interview with Radio NV told how he managed to impress the enemy in his deep rear.

- What exactly robbed the airfield near Novofedorivka. There are many options. We understand that what the Ukrainian General Staff knows is not to be declassified for some time, but still interesting. Is it a thunder, modified Neptune, a kick from a drone, Baracar, American ATCMS? This answer can be found? - You can exclude what is definitely not suitable.

No one ever gives an accurate guarantee, especially when there is only limited information in the form of videoable videos on smartphones - there is the quality not that is needed to fix the rocket that flies at the speed of sound or falls from the sky at an angle of 90 degrees at speed 1 km/sec. If you take all possible versions, I would outline them as follows. The first version is the ATACMS rocket. Informnappalm painted everything very qualitatively.

This is due to the fact that the Armed Forces initially destroyed a number of anti-aircraft missile complexes, or more precisely-radars to them-C-300, C-400. Then atacmsi began to fly into such a "window". On the same day as a blow to the Saky airfield was hit, Genichesk also destroyed the ammunition. This object is also at a distance of more than 200 km from the demarcation line.

That is, the starting operational area was 220–230 km-much more than alder capabilities, points, especially GMLRS, which at all beat at 80 km. - How do they understand this? Interesting details that need to be taken into account not only the maximum range, which can be obtained by specific weapons, but it should be understood that no one will place the starting unit at "zero". What details do you pay attention to determine what it could be? - We see two powerful explosions.

Moreover, they happened at the same time. Such a powerful explosion cannot be done, for example, by dropping a bomb from the Baracar -type drone, because there the bomb has a total weight of 50 kg. She is low -power and she cannot physically make such a "cotton", even if she gets into the ammunition. Yes, there may be a large explosion, but the problem is that there will be no two at the same time. What flew there was a rather powerful combat part.

- More than what can technically transfer the barkar, so we exclude it. We are now, as Dr. House, we are doing analysis. -We exclude any drones-Kamikadze for the same reason. They have a rather limited combat part of a maximum of several tens of kilograms. Only rockets remain. Atacmsi. At the same time, there is a version of the processing of Neptune, an anti -ship rocket from KB, for hits for terrestrial purposes. Technically it is possible. Moreover, such a project existed.

This version says that Saky's airfield is located on the seashore, that is, for Neptune flight on the plot above the sea is a common thing. It also explains why the air defense of the Russian Federation did not work - we did not see a single start. The aerodrome is covered in such a way that several C-300 batteries should be placed there, shells, tares, beeches. The area is covered with aircraft quite qualitatively, but we have not seen any launch of anti -aircraft missiles.

This may be because the rocket was ballistic and the speed of the Rashist complexes was simply not enough to intercept. Secondly, they just slept Neptune. They know how to sleep Neptune, they did it very well with the Creiser of Moscow. The third missile option is Sapsan.

I should remind that at the beginning of 2021 the then Defense Minister Taran reported that the complex is ready for testing by 80%: "It is necessary to refine it a little, for this purpose there are considerable funds to accelerate this development as much as possible.

" Considering that some components of this Sapsana (known in the press as Grimm-2) have already been demonstrated and publicly reported on the readiness of such things as the engine, such as guidance, start-up, other components that were already underway. Given that it was all year long and in addition to this half a year of fighting, it is possible that the complex could be ready. - And it could be a combat test? - Not even. It was not his first use.

We do not know any of his fire tests for 2021, although this does not mean that they did not happen. But such a system, when you start to test it, it is easy to mask, launching [rockets] not at a maximum range, which is at least 300 km, but at a range of 110-120 km, which corresponds to the capabilities of the point-y. In this way, you just easily disguise it and get quite high quality test results. - Interesting detail. Grim-2 version, Sapsan, is Ukrainian development.

Neptune, as an option, is also Ukrainian development. Or some complexes with the participation of American weapons. Are these basic versions? - There is a fourth option that should not be discarded. These are the actions of the Special Operations forces of Ukraine on diversion at such an object. If this option is true, then these people need to put monuments and name the central streets with their names, because no one has ever made diversions at aerodromes in such a deep rear.

This option exists, but in my opinion, a rocket stroke is more realistic. But we can say with very likely a few weeks to say what it was. If such strokes remain disposable "stocks"-then, most likely, it was a sabotage and intelligence group of our MCO. - And then it is necessary to shoot all the leadership of this airfield and all FSBshnik. - Of course. The Russians have to shoot because they slept, they have worked as a whole airfield. For understanding: there the whole airfield was destroyed.

Even in those satellite images that we see where some "living" planes stand ", they are" alive "only from the satellite. If closer shots appear, they will be in cracks, weaned. If you put an old and new shot, It is evident that Su-24, which allegedly goals, moved a few meters. For understanding: their mass-more than 20 tons. That is, the power of the explosion was great . . . -moved and probably cut. -Sleeping with fragments, moved an explosive wave.

That is all Military equipment that was on the airfield will now go either at the scrap or so -called defect. They have dropped out of one, not for two days, but for weeks and months. If it is quite rare "shares" and they are quite rare The objects on the coast will talk about Neptune. If it is extremely rare "shares" but also on dryness, then we can talk about Sapsan.