18 November, 2024
The invaders began using Kh-101 cruise missiles with outdated Soviet R-95-300 engines.
A photo of the wreckage of a missile with this engine was posted on the War_home Telegram channel.
Only some of the Kh-101 missiles used in the November 17 missile strike were equipped with R-95-300 engines.
The fuselages were marked with a mark indicating the installation of the R-95-300 engine.
An R-95-300 engine from a downed Russian Kh-101 cruise missile. November 17, 2024. Ukraine. Photo credits: War_home/Telegram
These missiles are usually equipped with Russian TRDD-50A engines.
This is the first recorded case of such a symbiosis between a modern Russian cruise missile and an outdated Soviet engine.
A TRDD-50A engine from a downed Russian Kh-101 cruise missile. Ukraine. Photo credits: War_home/Telegram
Given that Russia does not produce them, it is likely that they are taken from old Soviet stockpiles or disassembled from the remains of Kh-55 cruise missiles.
The production of subsonic rocket engines in Russia is a weak point in the entire production chain.
Previously, the R-95-300 engines, in addition to the “native” Kh-55 (SM) cruise missiles, were found in almost all detected Kh-59 (MK, MK2) guided missiles.
The R-95-300 engine. Photo credits: gatex.top
The R-95-300 engine was produced in a large series: in some years, the production volume reached 1500 units.
After the collapse of the USSR, Russia was tasked with import substitution of engines for strategic cruise missiles. At that time, the development of serial production of Omsk-designed TRDD-50 engines began.
The layout of the TRDD-50 engine. Photo: Mike1979 Russia
Recently, it became known that the Ukrainian military-industrial complex had produced more than a hundred missile weapons in 2024.
Help from iran, help from north korea, old tanks, old artillery, old IFVs, old ammo, old everything. And this terrorist crime syndicate wants to win a war?
BTW, I wonder where the crime syndicate and its terrorist friends are getting their ball bearings from.
You have a choice between Germany, Japan, sweden or the US. Obviously they are being rerouted through some 3rd world shithole that suddenly increased their imports by 1000%.
And the West does nothing to stop this crap. They make money on the one hand by selling their crap indirectly to mafia land, and then shell out money to defend the stuff the roaches build from the crap they sold in the first place.
You can’t make this shit up!