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Already in March, prototypes of the new Neptune missile launcher will be transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Defense Minister Andriy Taran said. The complexes include a movable command post, a self-propelled launcher, and cruise missile models. All this will be used to prepare crews that will subsequently go on combat duty. The minister declared this a “historic event,” calling Neptune “a new generation weapon” and “a new...
Russia continues to rapidly increase the power of the Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine can only watch powerlessly and dream of an “asymmetric response”, for which even the promised “mosquito” Navy has not yet been created. The editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian Military Portal, Taras Chmut, writes about this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russia plans to finally consolidate its dominance in the Black Sea. Yesterday…
The Ukrainian Neptune missile system cannot yet be considered a serious weapon, since there is no talk of putting it into production. The statement by Advisor to the President of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov that the missile is “reaching Sevastopol” speaks of his incompetence and irresponsibility. Sergei Shabovta, president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Security Market Operators, stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Statements about a new...
Tests of the new Ukrainian Neptune missile system at a test site in the Odessa region caused a stir in Russia, since this weapon is capable of hitting targets in the Sevastopol Bay. This was stated on the YuoTube channel of Ukrainian blogger Vladimir Buchko by Petro Poroshenko’s adviser on army issues Yuriy Biryukov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “From the point where the day before yesterday they fired (from a missile...
The situation in the Azov and Black Seas is extremely unfavorable for Ukraine, and therefore it is necessary to try to change the balance of power in its favor. Deputy Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Research Mikhail Samus writes about this in an author’s column published by the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe”. Analyzing the situation that has developed in the Azov-Black Sea basin, he comes to the conclusion that Russia completely dominates there...
