Despite that russia ostensibly was saving cruise missiles the analysis of number of long-range means that russians had used during spring-summer season, showed one more interesting result.
It is important to distinguish enemy`s long-range means not only in the sense of quantity, but also of weight of warhead. When it comes to big numbers, the total tonnage of strike adds up.
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According to the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from April 1st to October 16th russians launched:
Shahed-136 suicide drones: more than 1803 units of which 1521 units were destroyed, the share of shot down is 84%;
Cruise missiles of the Kh-555, Kh-55, Kh-101, Kalibr, P-500 types: 597 units of which 531 units were destroyed, the share of shot down is 89%;
Ballistic missiles of the Kh-22, Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles as well asKh-47M2 Kinzhal missile types: 150 units, of which 36 units were destroyed,the share of shot down is 24%.
These numbers are approximate because in some cases it is informed only about destroyed, but not launched missiles or drones. Also some don`t reach airspace of Ukraine and it wasn`t reported about exact amount of eliminated Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missiles once.
The weight of warhead of Shahed-136 is evaluated at 40 kg, so these drones had total burden of 72,12 tons of warhead. But due to efficiency of Anti-aircraft warfare these drones could only deliver 11,28 tons.
Conditional average weight of warhead is 400 kg, but there was a certain part of Kh-55missiles with simulator of warhead among launched ones. That`s why the total tonnage which was launched by russians is up to 238,8 tons, and only 26,4 tons reached its goal.
In regard to the third and common category of missiles it is possible to make an even more approximate calculation. It often happens that the difference of warhead fluctuates in between 500 kg and 180 kg in reports about ballistic missiles such as Iskander-M or S-300 or S-400 missile systems.
So, an approximate number of this category is – 83 tons of weight of warhead that were launched with ballistic missiles such as Kh-22, Oniks and Kh-47M2 Kinzhal. 65 tons of warhead of the missiles weren`t eliminated. Most of them are 42 units of the long-range Kh-22 missile with a warhead of 960 kg – 40,32 tons. None of them were destroyed.
As follows from April 1st to October 16th russians tried to strike Ukraine by the total warhead of long-range weapons of about 394 tons of which about 130 tons of warhead hit the mark.
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