Ukrainska Pravda
Tue, December 13, 2022 at 10:34 AM·3 min read
On 13 April, Ukrainian defenders were able to discover and reach the flagship of the Russian fleet, Moskva, with a Neptune missile due to bad weather and the arrogance of Russian sailors.
Source: Ukrainska Pravda article “Sinking Moskva: unknown details. How the Ukrainian Neptune destroyed the flagship of the Russian fleet”
Details: On April 13, the Russian missile cruiser Moskva was stationed in the Black Sea, about 120 km from the coast. Ukraine did not have over-the-horizon radars at the time of the Russian invasion, and conventional radar cannot show targets at such a distance. The invaders knew this, so they felt quite safe.
However, around 16:00 on 13 April, the operator of the Neptune complex received very unexpected data: a conventional radar showed a large target about 120 km from the coast. An object of this size in this sector of the Black Sea could only be the cruiser Moskva.
Ukrainian Rocket Forces say that nature itself helped them see the Russian target.
Since there were dense clouds over the sea, the radar signal was reflected from them to the surface of the water and from the water back to the clouds, and in such a corridor, the radar unexpectedly reached the Moskva cruiser.
The Russians were so confident in their inaccessibility to the Ukrainian forces that, according to the sources of the UP, they probably did not even activate the air defence systems. Although even the activated air defence does not see the Ukrainian subsonic missile because it flies over the water.
Western media published their versions of the defeat of the Moskva cruiser. Some wrote that the coordinates of the target were allegedly confirmed to Ukraine by the European centre of NATO; others wrote that an American P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft was involved in fulfilling Ukraine’s request and provided the exact coordinates.
But UP sources in military circles say that the Ukrainians themselves could solve such problems of incredible complexity and that the Russian 120-metre mountain of iron was constantly seen and recorded by satellites. They claim that the difficulty was not in discovering Moskva but in reaching it.Story continues
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