The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that on the night of July 31, 2024, the Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked a storage facility for equipment and weapons of the Russian army near the city of Kursk.
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It was noted that combat operations were carried out by certain units from the Ukrainian Navy, in cooperation with other components of the defense forces, and that details on the result of the destruction of the hostile target are still being clarified. At the same time, the work of hostile air defense and “explosions at the aiming points” were recorded.
Based on publicly available data, we are talking about a strike on an object that was located approximately 100 km from the state border of Ukraine.
Defence Express assumes that the launch of the weapons took place at a certain distance from the border in order to protect the launchers and crews.
But here we should rather pay attention to the hint about what kind of weapon itself could have been used for the strike of the Ukrainian Defense Forces on the Russian army base near Kursk. We can use the method of logical exclusion – there were no publicly available reports that the Ukrainian Navy has its own long-range kamikaze UAVs, so we can assume that in this case the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hinting rather at the possible use of correspondingly modified Neptune missiles, the publication writes.
In this case, we are talking about the possible use of this type of missile weapon as part of a single reconnaissance and strike circuit, the work of other elements of which was provided by other components of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
If we develop this working hypothesis, we can make the following assumptions. The depth of the strike on Russian territory at a distance of approximately 100 kilometers, near the city of Kursk, can hardly be a marker of the real range at which the correspondingly modernized Neptune missiles can now strike. Since we objectively do not know from what point in the territory of Ukraine these weapons could have been launched.
The message from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine specifically refers to “explosions at aiming points,” meaning that it is not only a question of a possible secondary detonation after impacts, but also that several missiles could have been launched at once to strike the Russian army storage base.
From which, in turn, it follows that the Ukrainian Defense Forces not only have their own missile weapons for strikes on Russian territory, but have also accordingly integrated them into the reconnaissance and strike contour to improve the effectiveness of striking enemy military targets.
Source: Racurs
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