Ukraine approached the creation of its own rocket by range up to 700 km: Details

Back in April, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the launch of mass production of new rockets. Now the first Vice president of the National Academy of Sciences, the former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Vladimir Gorbulin and Director of the Center for Army Research, Conversion and Disarmament Valentin Badrak, writes Liga. net.

They recalled that in April, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that new rocket samples were launched in mass production, and a month before, Russian resources indicated the existence of a "deep modernization" of the Ukrainian anti -ship missile "Neptune" - then it was possible to increase the day of the defeat of this Weapons from 280 km to 400 km.

In addition, at the end of August, Zelensky reported that on Independence Day, the Ukrainian soldiers had been hit by a new weapon for the first time on the Independence Day-a rocket-aid "Palyanitsa". But the fact that Ukraine has created the first ballistic missile, it has successfully completed the test. The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak also said that the range of the new Ukrainian ballistic missile is about 600-700 kilometers.

He did not give other details, but experts did not reject what was about Sapsan's project, which the Ukrainian defense industry began to develop in the early 2000s. At that time, the development of an operational-tactical missile system (OTRC) "Sapsan" was announced, which was actually analogous to the Russian "Iskander". The Ukrainian complex also had to beat up to 500 km for a marginal range and have a fighting part of about 500 kg.

It was planned to complete this project in 2012, but the terms were laid out due to lack of funding. The project was suddenly stopped under the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych in June 2013. At that time, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Pavel Lebedev informed about the complete curtailment of the Sapsan project. He is now wanted for the State Council and, according to preliminary data, is hidden in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

However, in 2016, it became known about the revival of the Sapsan project called Grim-2. Ukraine allegedly started the creation of this Outsk with a range of up to 280 km commissioned by Saudi Arabia. In February 2021, the then Defense Minister Andriy Taran stated that Sapsan was ready for 80%. This battery had to include two starting installations and chargers, as well as two control machines (divisional and battery level) for carrying out the entire test complex in the shortest possible time.

But after the full-scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into the territory of Ukraine news about "Grim-2" almost disappeared from the information space. In the fall of 2022, an employee of the Dnieper KB "Southern" was detained on suspicion of espionage. She, according to the investigation, has transmitted information on the production of "Sapsans" to the Russian special services at her own enterprise.

According to her, as of the summer of 2022, this missile complex was at the stage of readiness and production. Already in August 2024, the military expert and the chairman of the Foundation "Return the Living" Taras Chmut stated that Ukraine is now developing three Sapsana modifications. "Unfortunately, the state of Ukraine found funding for these complexes only in 2022," he said.