Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that during the evening attack on the city on August 31, 2024, Russian troops used a Grom-E1 missile, a hybrid of a missile and a KAB.
This is the first use of this type of weapon against Kharkov.
According to open sources, the hybrid missile “Grom-E1” is based on the Soviet missile X-38. Its maximum range can be 120 km.
This cruise missile bomb (item 9-A-7759) has a fragmentation-high-explosive modular warhead weighing 315 kg with a contact fuse. After dropping, the starting rocket engine is started, after some time the cruise rocket engine begins to work.
The rocket bomb can descend on the target at a large angle, writes Novinarnya.
In terms of efficiency, this hybrid missile is 1.8 times more effective than the OFAB-250-270 free-fall aviation bomb.
Source: Racurs
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