A purpose-built cruise missile would allow the Ukrainians to strike far-away targets more frequently and with greater precision.
A cruise missile is only as good as its engine and its guidance, of course. For the Korshun, Yuzhmash borrowed the R-95 turbofan, produced by Ukrainian firm Motor Sich. The R-95, which Motor Sich now calls the MS-400, isn’t a new engine. It powered the early models of the Soviet Kh-55 cruise missile in the early 1980s.
But the R-95 is compact, efficient and produces 900 pounds of thrust—enough to propel a two-ton cruise missile at subsonic speed over a distance of a thousand miles or more. For guidance, Yuzhmash blended old-school inertial navigation with satellite positioning. The main reason Yuzhmash isn’t already building Korshuns is the most obvious one. Money. “Billions ... need to be invested,” Reznikov said. “This should have been done a long time ago.”
Better late than never: it seems Ukraine finally is spending the money to complete the Korshun or a similar deep-strike missile. Once it’s ready, it should extend by hundreds of miles the range at which Ukrainian forces can strike targets in Russia.
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