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Including TASS, a number of ** reported that on the evening of February 7, local time, an "epic" ** occurred in Izhevsk, a major Russian military-industrial town west of the Ural Mountains, and the exact point was the city's Votkinsk military factory, about 50 kilometers from the city, and the coordinates were 57 ° 9 north latitude'25.39"Longitude 54°8 E'41.32"At present, neither Russia nor Ukraine has officially released any news.
It is reported that in addition to the production of general products, the Votkinsk military plant also produces important parts for many Russian ballistic missiles such as "Iskander-M", "Topol-M" and "Bulava", including rocket engines, among which "Topol-M" and "Bulava" are both intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The details of this drastic ** are not yet known, there are claims that it took place at the Votkinsk military factory training ground, **during the "planned rocket engine tests", but the relevant claims have not been confirmed.
Izhevsk is an important military industrial complex in Russia, and one of the specialties of the region is the AK series assault rifles, but compared to other military products produced in the city, the AK series assault rifles are simply not worth mentioning. In addition, there are a series of military bases and large ammunition storage facilities near the city, and there are Russian military facilities that speculate that it may be a large missile and artillery shell storage base.
For the time being, there is no more information about Izhevsk Da**, and some analysts speculate that this is likely to be another "masterpiece" of Ukrainian suicide drones, but given the location of Izhevsk, which is more than 1700 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, it may be difficult for Ukrainian-made suicide drones to fly here, and if it is sabotaged by the Ukrainian side, it is more likely that Ukraine ** uses multi-rotor drones. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there were accidents, such as the rocket engine produced by the Votkinsk military plant during test runs, and a similar accident occurred at the plant last year.
Long-range precision strikes are one of the biggest asymmetric advantages of the Russian army in the "special military operation", and the Russian army has used almost all types of ground attack missiles except intercontinental ballistic missiles, and even S-300 anti-aircraft missiles and "Onyx" anti-ship ballistic missiles used for ground attacks.
In another large-scale air strike on Ukraine on February 7, the Russian army most likely used another advanced missile, the 3M22 "Zircon" hypersonic missile.
Including the "Defense Express", a number of ** reports, near a damaged power line in the Dnieper region of Kyiv, the wreckage of a suspected "Zircon" hypersonic missile was found, it is not clear whether it was shot down by the Ukrainian air defense forces or crashed due to a malfunction, or simply did not hit the target, the Russian army is unlikely to use the expensive "Zircon" to hit the wire, the ** of this missile is said to exceed 2$300 million.
An unidentified missile fragment marked "3M22" was found at the scene, and neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials made any comment on it, but at 7:46 in the morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 1 "high-speed missile" was approaching Kyiv, but did not provide more information, especially the characteristics of this "high-speed missile", after all, "Zircon" is a high-speed missile, and the "Iskander-M" ballistic missile and the Kh-22 supersonic anti-ship missile are also high-speed missiles, As long as it is flight speed, supersonic speed can be calculated.
The Russian army has used the "Dagger" many times in the "special military operation", and before it was shot down by the Ukrainian air defense forces, the Russian official acquiesced to the statement that the "Dagger" was called a hypersonic missile, but after being shot down by the "Patriot" air defense system equipped by the Ukrainian army, Putin personally "clarified" that the "Dagger" was nothing more than an air-launched ballistic missile, not a hypersonic missile.
So far, there is no definite information that the Russian army has used the Zircon hypersonic missile in the war, which can break through any air defense system in the world, although this missile is already equipped with the Russian army. Russia** considers Zircon and hypersonic technology to be top secret, and last year 12 Russian hypersonic experts accused of selling secret technology to other countries were sentenced, three of whom allegedly died in prison.
Analysts are also curious why this "Zircon" hypersonic missile, which is advertised as being uninterceptable by active air defense systems, and even by air defense systems that will appear in the next few decades, is not being used by the Russian army in real combat.