On Wednesday, Ukraine’s central state arms firm, UkrOboronProm, introduced that the Ukrainian Ministry of Protection has awarded a contract to KB LUCH for a brand new anti-ship cruise missile system.
“The State Kyiv Design Bureau “LUCH”, a part of the UkrOboronProm, and the Ministry of Protection of Ukraine have signed a contract for the supply of RK-360MC Neptune coastal protection system to the Military in 2021,” stated in a press release.
Per the contract, the Ukrainian military will obtain utility launchers, transport and transport-charging autos, in addition to a cellular command publish, the place all the data essential for the operation of the system is concentrated.
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In line with open sources, the one Neptune batteries embrace six USPU-360 launchers with 24 R-360 ship-killer missiles.
The R-360 missile weighs 870 kg; the load of its warhead is 150 kg; its launch vary is as much as 280 km and its velocity is about 900 km/h. It is ready to get at a top of from 3 m to 10 m above the floor. The complicated can concurrently launch as much as 24 missiles, i.e. a full salvo of 6 launchers, with an interval of launches in a salvo being from 3 to five seconds.
The complicated could be situated at a distance of as much as 25 km from the shoreline, and its deployment lasts as much as quarter-hour.
The system could be carefully built-in and tailored to a rustic’s adjoining weapons and command and management methods. This expands the defended space and enhances the entire preventing functionality of the power.
Moreover, army leaders of Indonesia and Ukraine have signed agreements to spice up their army cooperation, together with an understanding to provide the most recent Neptune coastal protection system.
Indonesia seems to purchase new Ukrainian radar methods, air-to-air missiles, and a brand new Neptun coastal protection system with R-360 cruise missiles.