Kedr complex: DIU provides details on new ballistics used by Russia to hit Dnipro
Kyiv • UNN
The GUR reported that a new Kedr ballistic missile with six warheads was fired at Dnipro. The missile covered the distance from Astrakhan in 15 minutes at a speed of over Mach 11.
On November 21, the Russian army struck Dnipro with a ballistic missile, probably from the Kedr missile system, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, UNN reports .
On November 21, 2024, the aggressor state of Russia launched strikes on the territory of Ukraine, using a ballistic missile, probably from the Kedr missile system
The flight time of this Russian missile from the moment it was launched in Astrakhan region to the impact in the city of Dnipro was 15 minutes.
According to the GUR, the missile was equipped with six warheads, each equipped with six submunitions. The speed on the final section of the trajectory is over Mach 11.
A number of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of the aggressor state of Russia are involved in the development of the Kedr mobile missile system:
- AT Corporation "Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering" (Moscow);
- AT "Federal Research and Production Center ‘Titan-Barrikady’ (m. Volgograd);
- AT Head Special Design Bureau "Prozektor" (Moscow);
- JSC Concern Sozvezdie (Voronezh);
- AT "Scientific and Production Enterprise ‘Spetsenergomechanika’ (Moscow);
- Research and Development Center for Special Equipment and Conversion "Continent" (Moscow).
Tests of the Kedr missile system took place at the 4th State Central Interspecies Test Site of the Russian Federation (Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan region) in October 2023 and June 2014.
Recall
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said that Russia attacked Ukraine by testing a "newest" intermediate-range ballistic missile "Oreshnik".
