Tomahawk Not "Zunderwaffe": What is really needed to stop the Russian Federation (photo)

However, the Deputy Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Michael Samus notes: Tomahawk is a powerful but not unique tool, and for real shift, tools for deprivation of Russia will be needed to deprive Russia of air and mass tools for attacks in operational and strategic depth. According to the expert, the winged Tomahawk maritime base rockets with a stated range up to 2,500 km-the Heritage of the Cold War, which provided the US with an operational and strategic advantage.

There is also a ground version on the Typhon (SMRF) starting unit. It is probably in the context of possible supply of missiles to Ukraine. "Is Typhon now a unique tool that will immediately give us a trump card in the Russian Federation? In fact not. From the first day of large-scale aggression, Russia uses hundreds of rockets of maritime caliber missiles against Ukraine, which (of course, with many differences) can be considered as a strategical No, "Samus emphasized.

The main task that determines the ability to move to proactive actions is to deprive the Russian Federation of freedom of action in the frontal sky. This requires specific steps: by implementing these measures, the Armed Forces can significantly reduce the degree of freedom of Russians in the air and change the paradigm of hostilities - this will give an effect that can be compared by the importance of introducing new shock missiles.

In order to systematically destroy the military infrastructure of the Russian Federation in depth and create prerequisites for offensive actions to Ukraine, it is necessary to strike, which are marked in the military environment as a Middle Strike (a blow deep into the defense of the enemy) and Deep Strike (a deep blow to important objects in the rear).

Middle Strike requires large batches of Eram (up to 400 km) and Jassm (up to 500 km) that will allow you to beat logistics, warehouses, control points and reserves in operational depth. The announced delivery of thousands of Eram, provided the rhythmic receipt will significantly increase Ukraine's capacity for systematic suppression of enemy infrastructure. As for Deep Strike, it is here that the use of Tomahawk potentially makes sense.

These are point blows on key command points, communication nodes and warehouses. But the dependence on the external political decision makes this tool less reliable than its own developments, the expert says. Therefore, prospective programs such as Flamingo and others. They look strategically better: their own missiles reduce political vulnerability and make it possible to scale strokes without restrictions on external supply.