Ukraine orders Neptune ship-destroying missile system

Ukrainian state-owned company Ukroboronprom announced that the military has placed an order for a new anti-ship cruise missile system.

“The Kiev State Research Office LUCH and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine have signed a contract for the delivery of the RK-360MC Neptune Coastal Defense System to the military in 2021” the company stated in a declaration.

According to the contract, the Ukrainian army will receive utility launchers, transport and loading vehicles, as well as a mobile command post, where all the information necessary for the operation of the complex is concentrated. The contract would cover the delivery of a Neptune battery consisting of six USPU-360 launchers and 24 R-360 ship killer missiles.

Neptune is equipped with cruise missiles that fly at very low altitude over a distance of about 300 km. The rocket has starting and running (main) motors. The first is a solid rocket launch accelerator modified from the S-125 anti-aircraft missile. The MS-400 main turbojet engine is manufactured by Motor Sich.

The missile’s homing head, which has ultra-high viewing angles and is capable of detecting and capturing a target at a distance of up to 50 km, was developed by the company Radionics.

The Neptune complex was adopted by the Ukrainian armed forces on August 23, 2020.

The R-360 missile weighs 870 kg; the weight of its warhead is 150 kg; its launch range is up to 280 km and its speed is around 900 km / h. It is able to reach a height of 3 to 10 m above the surface. The complex can simultaneously launch up to 24 missiles, or a full burst of 6 launchers, with a launch interval in a burst being 3 to 5 seconds. The complex can be located at a distance of up to 25 km from the coastline and its deployment takes up to 15 minutes.

Delivery of the second modernized L-39M1 aircraft to the Ukrainian army

The state-owned Odessa Aviation Plant handed over a modernized L-39M1 trainer aircraft to the Ukrainian military.

The aircraft is equipped with modernized AI-25TLSH aircraft engines with improved technical characteristics, which, in conjunction with the modern installed objective control system BUR-4-1-07, allows to expand the range of training and dramatically increase the safety of flight training. The jet is equipped with a training complex aboard a modern BTK-39 aircraft, with the aircraft’s controls, sighting head and individual cabin elements made in this way, to bring the closest possible the cockpit information field of the attack information field. airplane.