Kuzmuk: We need to be able to threaten a strike on Russian territory
Ukraine needs to restore old Soviet missile systems from the 60s in order to threaten the possibility of a strike on Russian territory. Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexander Kuzmuk stated this on air on the Apostrophe Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Today, the weapons in the Ukrainian arsenal can reach a maximum distance of 50 kilometers, which will not be enough in a modern war, Kuzmuk believes.
“We were left without a distant hand, the S-200, and today it is extremely needed, because the Air Force of the Russian Federation, the Military Space Forces, they will not enter Ukrainian airspace. They will strike targets from their territory. They don't need to take risks. Because aviation weapons, missile weapons allow, naval weapons allow us to strike targets to the full depth, throughout the entire territory of Ukraine, without entering airspace. And we would desperately need these complexes today. Today it is a mistake if the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff do not immediately, day and night, return to restoring them and putting them on duty,” Kuzmuk said.
According to Oleg Korostelev, general director and chief designer of Luch Design Bureau, there can be no talk of modernizing the missile systems inherited from the Soviet Union:
“We studied our enterprise, and related companies studied the S-300, the Buk, the S-200, and so on. One thing must be said - as soon as we say the word “modernization”, it turns out that this is not modernization, but a new development. Using even rockets as carriers, then taking the engine, the warhead, and doing everything else on your own, already causes certain difficulties. You need to think about the dimensions, about interaction with the ground part, and these are all old electronic systems, some with ferrite memory, which now, without having design documentation, is practically impossible to fit into.”
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