The tests took place on the Black Sea. The frames show that the missile hits the target barge. According to the developers, it was first tested with a warhead.
This weapon was developed on the basis of the old Soviet X-35, which was designed to destroy both surface and ground targets. In Kiev, they have high hopes for Neptune. However, experts point out that introducing a rocket into mass production and improving the control system will be difficult due to stagnation of the defense and brain drain to the West.
For example, it is not yet clear whether a missile will be able to hit targets with radar interference and evade air defense systems.
R-360 missile weighs 870 kg, launch range up to 280 km, speed about 900 km / h. The flight height above the waves is from 3 to 10 m.
The authors of the “profile” blog bmpd call Neptune a copy of the Soviet anti-ship missile 3M24 of the Uranus complex (X-35, or, rather, its modernized version of X-35U). The main problem of Neptune will be the creation of an active radar homing head – the Ukrainian defense industry does not have such competence.
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