A domestically produced missile would give Ukraine the ability to strike targets in Russia without using weapons donated by the West..

Ukrainian officials say their military is now using a long-range missile that was designed and manufactured domestically and can reach targets inside Russia

  • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    Kamchatka WTF? Anyone who has played Risk knows that Kamchatka is a long way from Ukraine.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Range is one thing. Hopefully it’s accurate or else who knows what they would hit. It wouldn’t look good if they hit civilians by accident.

      • suction@lemmy.worldEnglish
        110·
        2 years ago

        Are there civilians in Russia? I don’t see people protesting too much. Everybody knows Putin couldn’t do shit if millions of Russians marched on the Kremlin.

    • andrei_chiffa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      R-36 “Satan” was desinged by and manufactured at Yuzhmash, now Pivden’mash, located in Dnipro, Ukraine. More recently, Pivden’mash has been building “Zenit” rockets, that has >70 successful launches and has a 13.7 t payload to LEO.

      I think Ukraine is mostly waiting for a proper excuse rather than capabilities to send non-nucler ICBM in towards strategic locations in Russia.