Financial Times: Russia won't run out of missiles anytime soon; X-101 production has increased eightfold
Russia has increased production of the Kh-101 strategic missiles it uses to fire at Ukraine almost eightfold, the British newspaper Financial Times reports .
They write that they are all based on Western details. One X-101 can contain more than 50 different foreign-made parts.
According to the newspaper, if in 2021 Russia produced only 56 such missiles, then last year Russia produced 420 X-101s - almost 8 times more.
Kh-101 is a Russian strategic air-to-ground cruise missile using radar signature reduction technologies. The rocket was developed by the Raduga design bureau (1995-2013). Has the index X-102 for the nuclear warhead version.
These missiles were first used in combat in 2015 during Russia's operation in Syria . They are currently being widely used during the campaign in Ukraine, the publication notes.
A senior NATO official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity before the alliance's summit in Washington, said that Russia may try to inflict new massive strikes on Ukraine, indicatively timed to coincide with the summit and other events, the newspaper writes.
“I think we should expect massive strikes, such as this strike on July 8,” the publication quotes its NATO confidant.
According to a NATO spokesman, Russia is allegedly saving missiles by stockpiling them for massive raids.
“According to a NATO representative, the Russian economy can withstand another three to four years of war with Ukraine. At the same time, according to information available to the alliance, Moscow is trying to find new suppliers of weapons and ammunition in addition to Iran and North Korea. The NATO representative did not say which countries we are talking about,” the publication says.
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