During the new shelling, the Russian Federation used a missile produced in the 4th quarter of 2022 – media

Nazar Steporuk17:56, 29.12.22

This may indicate that the military-industrial complex of Russia is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the pace of shelling of Ukraine.

Rocket X-101 / photo from social networks

During today’s massive terrorist shelling of peaceful Ukrainian cities, the Russian Federation used at least one X-101 missile, which was manufactured in the fourth quarter of 2022. That is, it was produced between October and December. This may serve as confirmation that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation to keep up with regular shelling of Ukraine.

This information was shared by Defense Express journalists , citing their own sources. Reporters learned that one Kh-101 missile was definitely manufactured in the fourth quarter of 2022. However, it is still unclear how many of these “fresh” missiles are being fired as part of the massive shelling of Ukraine. But it seems that the military-industrial complex of Russia no longer has time to manufacture missiles in accordance with the pace of large-scale strikes against our state.

Earlier, a similar fact of using relatively new ammunition was recorded. On October 22, the Rashists launched the X-101 missile in Ukraine, which was produced in the second quarter – from April to June.

Russia faced difficulties in the creation of missiles

At the end of December, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov , said that Russia had missiles left for 2-3 massive strikes.

According to the military-political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko, the Russian Federation has the ability to produce up to 3-4 Kh-101 missiles per week and up to 150 per year. However, due to the lack of components due to sanctions, this figure dropped to 5-6 per month.

Russia is constantly looking for ways to get around the restrictions. She recently began lobbying African politicians who could help in this matter.

British intelligence reported on December 10 that Russia could receive hundreds of ballistic missiles from Iran in the near future. And last week, Israeli intelligence director Mossad David Barnea reaffirmed Tehran’s desire to increase the supply of heavy weapons to Moscow.

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