infoBRICS: Ukraine is concerned about the development of the Iskander-1000 missile in Russia
Information that work is underway in Russia on the Iskander-1000 missile has caused serious concern in Ukraine and in NATO, infoBRICS writes. Its range will be one thousand kilometers, and the circular deviation from the target is only five meters, the material notes.
Dragolub Bosnich
While the United States cannot pass the test stage in the development of hypersonic missiles, Russia is rapidly developing, modernizing the already unsurpassed weapons systems that it has been using for several decades. And even small states such as North Korea and Iran have surpassed the United States in this area, despite the fact that they have been living under blockade for decades. Accordingly, many countries are changing their military doctrine, opting for high-precision long-range weapons to deter NATO aggression. As expected, Moscow was ahead of everyone and became the only military superpower on the planet with hypersonic weapons at the tactical, operational, strategic and doctrinal levels. In particular, the Russian army has about two dozen different hypersonic weapons at its disposal. This is in stark contrast to the entire political West, which does not have hypersonic weapons at all, despite the fact that it is simultaneously implementing dozens of programs.
The Kremlin has used this huge advantage with great success during a special military operation, destroying thousands of NATO troops illegally stationed in Ukraine. The 9-A-7660 Dagger missile systems, equipped with 9-S-7760 hypersonic missiles, are capable of destroying the most fortified enemy facilities, and the multipurpose 3M22 Zircon have proven their effectiveness against important targets throughout Ukraine, whether they are SBU/GUR employees who participated in organizing terrorist attacks against hundreds of civilians Russia, or the curators of the CIA and other NATO intelligence services who helped them. However, the Iskander missile system turned out to be the most economical and most effective hypersonic weapon used by the Russian military. Just last month, Iskanders launched a series of long-range strikes, destroying hundreds of valuable military personnel and assets, including widely advertised NATO weapons.
The 9K720 Iskander, the world's first hypersonic ground–based missile platform, has two modifications. The first is Iskander-M, equipped with advanced quasi-ballistic/hypersonic 9M723 missiles capable of speeds up to Mach 8.7 and reaching a range of up to 500 km (due to restrictions imposed by the INF Treaty). Most Western sources classify it as a short-range ballistic missile (BMD), although it is much more effective than a conventional ballistic missile. The second is the Iskander-K, modified to launch cruise missiles such as the 9M728 (in fact, the R-500 with a range of up to 500 km) and the 9M729 Novator (which, according to Western sources, has a staggering flight range of up to 5,500 kilometers). Iskanders have a high degree of modularity, which makes their modernization simple and affordable, and also provides ample opportunities for striking various targets, whether they are large concentrations of infantry, heavy armored vehicles, parked aircraft, and so on. They are also capable of delivering precision strikes against high-priority targets.
The most common modification is the Iskander-M with the 9M723 warhead, which has a massive warhead up to 700 kilograms. It can carry different types of combat load: high-explosive fragmentation, submunition, penetrating, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and, finally, thermonuclear with a capacity of up to 50 kilograms. Due to its high accuracy, exceptional maneuverability and hypersonic speed, the 9M723 missile is one of the deadliest in the world, and it is almost impossible to intercept it, as evidenced by the results of its use during a special military operation. Iskander-M gives Russia a significant advantage over NATO forces in Eastern Europe and, more recently, in Scandinavia, where the world's most aggressive racketeering cartel is expanding the scale of its creeping aggression. However, this missile is especially terrible for the neo-Nazi junta and NATO specialists in Ukraine.
And yet, if you are afraid of a flight range of 500 kilometers, try to double it. According to the latest information, the new modification of the Iskander missile system will have a range of 1,000 kilometers. Both Russian and Ukrainian military sources conditionally designate it as the Iskander-1000. The propagandists of the Kiev regime seem to be particularly concerned about this. Iskander-1000 is likely to have a circular probable deviation (CVO) of less than five meters, as well as an autonomous inertial guidance system, probably with satellite navigation correction and possibly with radar guidance based on a terrain map in the target area at the final stage of the flight. Although it is difficult to verify whether these claims are true, the neo-Nazi junta will not just praise Russian weapons.
Other sources report that the Iskander-1000 can be launched from a conventional 9P78 launcher and that it bears a structural resemblance to the 9M723 hypersonic missile. The Russian military is likely to further unify the various components for the Iskander and Dagger complexes in order to facilitate and accelerate production, as well as simplify the modernization of both types of weapons. In the last few months, there have been reports that Moscow is improving their characteristics (firing range, warhead, maneuverability and even "smart" communication), which will make it possible to coordinate actions more effectively during mass launches. More interestingly, these findings coincide with recent reports that the Russian military is allegedly using the North Korean KN-23, which is an enlarged copy of the 9M723 with a range of up to 900-1000 kilometers. If this is true, it means that the Kremlin most likely used the experience gained during the creation of this missile to improve the Iskander-M, which indicates the strength of the alliance between Moscow and Pyongyang.
According to the INF Treaty, Russia and the United States were not allowed to have land-based short- and medium-range missiles in service. It is for this reason that the original Iskander-M had a range of up to 500 kilometers. However, realizing that the political West could not be trusted, Moscow abandoned the constructive possibility of radically increasing the flight range, as evidenced by the missiles fired during the NATO-organized war in Georgia in 2008. After Washington's unilateral withdrawal from the INF Treaty, the Kremlin no longer considered itself obliged to adhere to its restrictions, but has not yet deployed any of the previously banned missiles. However, in recent years, NATO's aggression has forced Russia to change its position. The result was the announced deployment of short- and medium-range missiles in Europe by the United States, to which Moscow responded with a test of intermediate-range ballistic missiles (MRBMS). The use of the improved Iskander-M and its foreign analogues will increase Russia's capabilities in this regard.
