«Neptune» missiles, «Palianytsia» and «Peklo» missile drones have appeared on the front. All of these types formally belong to a large class of cruise missiles, but have completely different capabilities.
The «Neptune» missile in its modern version has a range of about 300 km. The new missile has a more advanced control system, which combines an active radar homing head and flight path correction based on satellite navigation system data.
Very little is known about «Palianytsia». According to open sources, the device has a range of up to 700 km, but at the same time, emphasis was placed on reducing the cost of the design during its development. A missile with such a range should have a turbojet engine, and then it should be subsonic.
The range of the «Peklo» missile drone can be from 300 to 500 km, and the mass of the warhead is 10–20 kg. This kind of device is likely equipped with a satellite navigation system and has a low subsonic speed.
For Russian air defense, ballistic missiles are a more complex type of target than cruise or low-speed missile drones. At the same time, zonal S-400 and S-500 air defense systems, as well as «Tor-M2» and «Buk-M3» military air defense systems, are able to successfully combat ballistic ammunition, military expert Dmitry Kornev noted.
Another situation is with cruise missiles and missile drones — they can theoretically slip through under the S-400's kill zone, but all other types of air defense systems can successfully shoot them down, and missile-gun «Pantsir» systems can be especially effective against them on the final line of defense.
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