Kalibr Cruise Missiles: How Does Ukraine Cope with Them?
Table Of Content Western Involvement in Russian Missiles Is Getting Harder to Ignore Terminal supersonic flight The Kalibr in UKraine A look at Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian targets since the war began in February 2022 Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war News Ukraine's general staff frequently reports that Russia has launched overnight strikes using Kalibr missiles. "Russia's weapons systems and military platforms contain a range of predominantly Western-sourced components and electronics that are critical to their function," the report said. One report released by RUSI in August 2022, of which Somerville is a co-author, found that there were at least 450 types of foreign-made components in 27 Russian weapons systems. The majority of the parts were "manufactured by US companies with a longstanding reputation for designing and building sophisticated microelectronics for the US military," the report said. Others were produced by co...