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That's a rocket anyway.. and rocket have that tendency to explode during testing.
I would like to remind you that in the upgrade to Marshal Shaposhnikov, in position "B" where the second old 100mm artillery turret was previously located, VLS were placed to be able to use different types of 16 missiles : Kalibr, Oniks, Zircon, Otvet.
I think that the Kh-35 Uran should be considered as something more to be used possibly towards smaller targets at medium distances.
Therefore the attack and defense capabilities (the Shaposhnikov maintains the 8x8 and modernized VLS for air defense) are infinitely superior to the small Buyans and beyond.
Sure, but there were prototypes of slanted UKSK launchers they could have used instead of Uran. Yet they never put them in service.
they preferred to install the VLS for Kalibr and others, and fill the space left by the landing of the 2 quadruple tubes for SSN-14 with the Kh-35, also evaluating the weights removed and added in the modernization, as well as having available, to hit some types of targets, missiles costing much less than the various Kalibr, Oniks, etc. transported in the new VLS.
Some sources reveal that the test was actually the use of a Sarmat with an Avangard hypersonic warhead, which does not have an explosive charge, but has a kinetic destructive power equivalent to 18 tons of TNT.
The Avangard is a hypersonic glide warhead that can be carried as a payload by the heavy ICBMs UR-100UTTKh, R-36M2 and, what interests us in this case, by the RS-28 Sarmat. There are certain "rumors" that Putin is not planning a nuclear response, if the use of long-range missiles is authorized for Ukraine, the idea would be to use this powerful warhead with an equivalent of 18 tons of TNT.
If this intention is real (something I considered some time ago but preferred to remain silent), this would be an order of magnitude worse than the use of the Kinzhal, which has a warhead with an equivalent of 1 ton of TNT in its conventional (kinetic) version.
In Russia, they are completing the testing of another homemade drone with a grenade launcher, they promise that it will soon be delivered to the troops. The drone has a stabilization mode so that it is not thrown back when the grenade launcher is fired. The Russian drone is equipped with an RPG-26 grenade launcher with armor penetration of 440 mm, it will be used to destroy equipment in the upper projection, for this purpose the grenade launcher is installed at an angle of about 35 degrees. It is also supposed to install the RPO "Shmel" on the drone. The drone's carrying capacity is 12 kilograms, it is capable of rising to a height of up to 800 meters and developing a speed of up to 60 km / h. The drone's operating range is up to 30 kilometers. The approximate cost of the drone is about 600 thousand rubles or 6,500 dollars
As part of the recent Russian exercises "Ocean-2024", footage of the takeoff of four Russian anti-submarine aircraft Il-38 and Il-38N was published. The aircraft laid mines in a sea training ground. As reported, more than 50 training sea mines were dropped by parachute near Kamchatka, with their help a section of the sea coast about 10 kilometers long was blocked. The Il-38 aircraft began to be used in 1969, it was created on the basis of the Il-18V aircraft, the first Il-38 were inferior in characteristics to American aircraft. In 2001, a modernized anti-submarine aircraft Il-38N appeared, equipped with the search and targeting complex "Novella-P-38", since 2014 the Air Force received them. It is worth noting that five modernized aircraft are also used by India under the index Il-38SD. Visually, the Il-38N differs from the Il-38 by additional antennas of the all-round radar station, located above the nose of the fuselage. The Il-38N can detect air targets at a distance of up to 90 km, and surface targets - up to 320 km, there is no information about underwater targets. The maximum takeoff weight of the aircraft is 68 tons with a combat load of 6 tons. It can reach speeds of up to 650 km / h, the maximum flight altitude is 8 km. The flight range with a normal combat load reaches 6.6 thousand km. The aircraft crew is seven people.