MINSK, March 7 The State Military Industrial Committee of Belarus announced that that the preliminary tests of the Belarusian guided missile 9M318 for the Buk-MB2 air defense system were successful, air targets were hit.
«Goskomvoenprom successfully conducts preliminary tests of the domestic 9M318 anti-aircraft guided missile developed for the Belarusian Buk-MB2 air defense system,» the committee says in its telegram channel.
It is noted that «the use of the 9M318 missile allows significantly expand the area of destruction of the Buk-MB2 air defense system to 70 kilometers and the fleet of air targets to be hit from aircraft of the Stealth type with a small effective reflective surface to tactical ballistic missiles. air targets were hit, which were unmanned aerial vehicles with a turbojet engine. The State Military-Industrial Committee congratulates the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus on the successful effective tests of the first domestic anti-aircraft guided missile, which confirmed all the declared characteristics during the test activities,» the message emphasizes.
At the end of February, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the Belarusian The military industry is completing the development of its own anti-aircraft guided missile for the new Belarusian air defense system.And this Tuesday, Lukashenko said that the republic had recently tested its own missile for the Buk complex. anti-aircraft missile system «Buk», as well as a missile with a range of 300 kilometers for the MLRS «Polonaise».