Ukraine is developing a new missile, Trembita. To reach Moscow, they are also working on a more powerful version of it.
The Economist writes about this with reference to the Ukrainian military.
The standard version of Trembita has a speed of 400 km/h and a range of 200 km. Serial production of these missiles is planned to start after final field tests, the newspaper writes, without specifying dates.
The cost of one missile together with a warhead weighing 20-30 kg is 15 thousand dollars, and in the form of a bait – 3 thousand. The Economist writes that the Trembita was developed only after a year and a half – this is considered a short period of time for the design of new weapons.
The wartime challenge of producing rockets took rocketry to a new level: underground. Some of the collection has already been moved to secure bunkers, while component production is scattered across hundreds of hidden, unremarkable locations, such as the garage that covers Trembita.
We will still complete the missile program,” says Vladimir Gorbulin, a former national security adviser to Ukraine and a 62-year missile industry veteran who advises on several projects.
He refuses to share details of Ukraine’s ambitions – out of respect for those who risk their lives to realize them. But he rejects the “wild, ill-informed fantasies” about nuclear rearmament that have recently inspired some Ukrainians.
Another difficult problem is finances. The government supports the production of any rocket that is shown to be capable of flight, offering private manufacturers the same maximum 25% profit as drone makers. But developers often have to risk significant amounts of their own money to get projects off the ground.
An even bigger challenge is expanding industrial production – raising capital, purchasing sensitive equipment from abroad and ensuring security. Here Ukraine lags behind the Russian state military complex.
Ukraine has no shortage of ideas, says a defense industry insider, but the devil has always been in the implementation.
Source: Racurs
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