Rome, 6 May 2022 – First the Moskva and then the Admiral Makarov, the Ukrainian missiles Neptune they made another excellent victim in the Black Sea. But if the Russian cruiser, star of the stamp with the insult of the soldiers of the Isle of Snakes, was a ship with a few years on its shoulders (It was built in the 80s during the Soviet Union, and despite the updates it had not infallible defenses), the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate it is the most modern of the Russian fleet.
A severe blow by Kiev to Moscow’s plans in southern Ukraine, after Moskva, and again because of the R-360 Neptun, an anti-ship missile developed by the Ukrainians from Soviet Kh-35, but significantly improved electronically and in structure, with a more elongated body, a more powerful booster and greater autonomy. In reality it is a more Ukrainian than Russian missile, in fact shortly before the collapse of the USSR the Kh-35 missile had been put into production right in Ukraine, but with the collapse of the Wall it had never entered service in Russia, where production only resumed in the 1990s. Therefore all the documentation, schematics and secrets of the anti-ship missile are remained in Kiev, who developed it. Ukraine began deploying this anti-ship system along the coast in March 2021.
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The secret Neptun missile ‘centers’, which can be fired by USP-360 quad launchers, with a total of 24 missiles ready to launch, or by patrol boats and air forces, is the speed supersonic of 900 km / h of approach to the targets, that is ships up to 5.000 tons as frigates and destroyers. And it becomes lethal when from the cruising height to 10-15 meters above the surface, which already complicates the radar reading, it passes to 3-10 meters before impact to be even more out of sights and sensors. All with a range of around 1,000 kilometers.
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The R-360 “Нептун” is 5.05 meters long and has a maximum diameter of 380 mm, with rigid cross-shaped fins. They are housed in mobile containers for transport and launch called TPK. Each missile, weighing about 870 kilograms, of which 150 consisting of the warhead, has a maximum range of about 300 kilometers. After launch, carried out with a rocket similar to the Neva S-125 systems, it exploits the thrust of an MS-400 turbojet engine.