As the Russian Air Force has suffered heavy losses in the past month, Russia has constantly adjusted its strategy to deal with Ukraine's air defense system supported by advanced intelligence and reconnaissance from Europe and the United States, thereby reducing the chance of exposure to the front line, shortening the distance forward, and developing new and more reliable route plans. And the Russians, in this case, concentrated their fire on their own positions, thereby gaining an additional advantage.
The Ukrainian army issued a statement on its society ** that ** people are launching an offensive in the central part of the city of Kherson using advanced long-range strike means, where fragments of Russian Grom-1 anti-aircraft missiles were found.
The "Grom" is a Russian advanced anti-aircraft ground attack** equipped with a pair of ejectable wings for taxiing after takeoff. Although the parts found on the site indicate that it was damaged, its overall size and remaining parts are consistent with the details of the known ** modification (i.e., the Grom-E1). It is worth mentioning that this equipment system is the most advanced and advanced in Russia, which lasted until 2013.
Although it is not possible to determine the exact technical parameters of the GROM, the known information indicates that the GROM-E1 is a special model, which weighs about 594 kg and has a length of 42 meters, diameter 031 meters, wingspan 19 meters. This ** is armed with a 315-kilogram shrapnel warhead. Its power generation equipment weighs 161 kg and includes two solid-fuel engines, a booster and a duration engine. In addition, the Grom-E1 can also be modularly integrated with other models of air defense systems of the Russian Tactical Missile Corporation, allowing it to be integrated into the solid-fuel engine of the Kh-38ME series of short-range air defense systems.
Missiles of the Grom type are suitable for fighters such as the Su-34, Su-35, as well as advanced Su-57, and they can attack at an altitude of 500-12000 meters, while the effective range of such missiles can reach 70 km, and some reports say that it can reach 120 km. This is not the first time that this has been confirmed on the Kherson front since Russia launched a large-scale offensive against Ukraine, because the remnants of such missiles can still be found in Donetsk and Kharkiv before, indicating that the ** people have changed their tactics.
The launch of the first Grom-1 ended in failure, due to the fact that in the temporarily controlled area of Donetsk, there were some technical malfunctions.