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MOSCOW, July 6 The Russian military from the BARS-11 volunteer detachment and the command of the Tsarskie Volkov unit pulled out an almost complete British Storm Shadow cruise missile from the line of contact, the head of the Military Dmitry Rogozin of the Tsarskie Wolves technical center.
«It (the missile. — Ed. note) was only partially destroyed — it fell very successfully flat. The missile was divided into several parts by our technical specialists right on the battlefield, high-explosive and cumulative parts separately, the control unit separately, folded the wing for ease of transportation,» he said.
Rogozin clarified that the rocket used electronics of a very high level, which withstood overloads during the fall. The operation to evacuate the trophy took two days.
“There was a GPS beacon that could direct the enemy’s capture group. Despite the fact that we blocked it, our fighters had to practically not sleep with this missile, move all the time and even take the fight — there was an attempt by the enemy DRG to intercept a car with a missile on the road and an escort car,» the agency's interlocutor added. hitar-1882659378.html» data-title=»The Russians will get everything: the US was afraid of Putin's sensitive blow to NATO»>
The trophy was handed over to specialized specialists to study its design and filling. The head of the Military-Technical Center «Tsarskie Wolves» pointed out that this would allow the Russian defense industry to find the most effective ways to deal with Storm Shadow.
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«I'm glad that it was our unit that did this. Now our air defense will shoot down this thing, and it will gradually become useless,» Rogozin emphasized.
The Storm Shadow cruise missile was jointly developed by Great Britain and France, its range, depending on the modification, is from 250 to 560 kilometers.
Great Britain announced the transfer of such shells to Kiev on May 11 this year. Shortly thereafter, Kyiv began to actively use them to attack Russian rear lines and civilian targets.
In particular, on May 12, Storm Shadow strikes were carried out against Lugansk. On the morning of June 22, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked bridges on the administrative border between the Kherson region and Crimea with these missiles, in particular, along the Chongar bridge. Of the latest cases, a Ukrainian attack on a medical warehouse in Akimovka in Zaporozhye on Tuesday.