Poverty Kremlin stocks: RF Armed Forces uses rockets almost immediately after manufacture - experts

Studies of fragments of rockets that have fallen in the territory of Ukraine have shown that ammunition falls on the front almost from the conveyor. According to analysts, Moscow faced serious problems with the reserves of winged missiles of different range. Western weapons collected samples of the Russian rocket, which was released in the fourth quarter of 2022 and launched a few months after manufacturing.

According to Dage, Splitters, Deputy Director of the British Organization of Conflict Armament Research (CAR), which deals with weapons tracking, there are all signs that ammunition reserves in Russia have become very scanty. This is stated in Breaking Defense for May 10. Splitters said that in March 2023, a Russian X-59MK2 Air-Earth 2 missile was found, which was shot down in the Ukrainian territory. The study of debris showed that the rocket was made at the end of 2022.

"Moscow has encountered serious problems with reserves and high production pressure, which cannot be infinitely stable," the official said. According to him, such figures indicate a surprisingly rapid transition from the moment of production to combat use of the rocket, and this case shows not the fastest rate of use.

Thus, in November 2022, two X-101 missiles were found after a strike in Kiev, and Car researchers were able to determine that one of the ammunition was made in the last quarter of 2022, most likely in October. Thus, the missiles went to the war zone actually from the conveyor. According to the Center for Strategic and International Research (CSIS), in addition to X-101 and X-59, a wide range of other Russian winged air base missiles, including X-22, X-29, X-31, X-47M2 ", was revealed in Ukraine.

Dagger "and X-555. Car experts concluded that the reserves of winged missiles in Russia were substantially moved after 15 months of war. "I think we have achieved a turning point when some Russian stocks and components are depleted and should be replenished. From what I saw about the X-59 missiles made after invasion, follows that Russia seems to be still relying on old Stocks of components, "Splitters summed up.

Earlier, analysts of Forbes reported that since the beginning of the war, Russia has used about 4750 missiles of different radius for firing of Ukraine. Recently, the occupiers have begun to use expensive X-47, as "calibers" and X-101 end. We will remind, on May 5 the Ukrainian military with the help of Patriot Patriot successfully intercepted the Russian hypersonic missile X-47 "Darling".