Russia modernizes the "Iskander" OTRC: which has improved in the winged rocket P-500

Moreover, in this winged rocket satellite navigation has always played an auxiliary role, inferior to the importance of the inertial system and Tercom - navigation by terrain. However, even the P-500 was considered the most accurate of Russian winged missiles. "Comet-M" on 16 elements is a digital phase antenna lattice with a controlled orientation chart, which provides resistance to attempts to suppress satellite navigation signals.

Such a complex requires at least 16 directed interference sources for effective suppression, which significantly complicates the task of radio electronic struggle. According to experts, earlier such multi-element CRPA-anna was installed only on means where satellite navigation is the only accessible way to guide.

Thus, the use of such systems in P-500 may indicate that Russian developers are introducing satellite guidance technologies even in those of the lesion systems where alternative solutions have previously been used. For example, since April this year, the Comet-M antennas are recorded on 12 elements in the SMPC sets (unified planning and correction module for aviation), and recently-and 16-elements on the Shahamed drones.

In addition, the use of Chinese multi-element CRPA-anten with a circular scheme for placing elements on the same drones is recorded. The first such devices were observed in March 2025. "All this means only the next stage of the race between the HRs and the systems of navigation of hostile long -range means of damage. At the same time, it is the suppression of satellite navigation that is only one of the methods of complex counteraction to the threat," analysts summed up.