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On the night of May 19, 2024, the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit the Russian missile ship “Cyclone” of project 22800 in Sevastopol.
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A subscriber shared a photo - this is the moment of arrival at the Cyclone RTO in Sevastopol Bay on the night of May 19.
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Can you not launch cruise missles from land?
Yeah you absolutely can. And from air. The biggest benefit is probably that this limits the number of angles into Ukraine russia can launch missiles from, which makes air defense easier.
Pretty much. This doesn’t limit the angle since the Kremlin can still launch from a bomber over the Black Sea, but it means they have 6 fewer missiles in an attack. So, air defence will have an easier time taking them out.
@NotMyOldRedditName @fuckingkangaroos that is a question I asked myself as well. But then it would be the like the famous US nuclear ‘cruise missile’ (from the @FRHoffmann1 header). If you saw these latest French turbo jet drones the line blurs imo. I think the US tomahawk can be land based. But an answer from a not armchair military guy would be great.
@NotMyOldRedditName @fuckingkangaroos (my gut says it has something to do with tactical positioning of the weapon system… Cruise missiles are slow in comparison to ballistic missiles and if you could preposition in minutes in a fighter jet you could outrun Enemy ad). A guess.
Russia is using anti ship missiles to hit land targets. The launchers for those are only on ships. That does not mean, you can not put them on land, but it is going to be some engineering work.
Maybe more importantly those missiles are a threat to Ukranian shipping.