In general, only a few cases are known when the enemy used the Grom-E1 hybrid of a cruise missile and an unguided aerial bomb.
The mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, announced that after a short break, the Russian occupation forces resumed terrorist attacks against the city, and noted that on August 31. in the evening, during the shelling, Russian terrorists used the Grom-E1 weapon system to attack Kharkiv for the first time.
The use of this weapon in general on the territory of Ukraine was recorded for the first time last year. in 2023 In March, images of fallen Grom-E1 remains appeared on the Internet. This was one of the first evidences that Russia is using this hybrid weapon.
in 2024 isolated cases of use of Grom-E1 have also been recorded. These cases were mostly terrorist attacks against civilian objects – for example, against a school and a five-story building.
The Russians introduced Grom for the first time in 2015. Maksva at the international aviation exhibition “MAKS”. Two variants of the weapon were introduced – the Grom-E1 with a jet engine and the Grom-E2 with an additional warhead.
Importantly, this incident is the first confirmed case of the use of such rockets in the Kharkiv region.
Grom-E1 is an air-to-ground missile weapon system designed to destroy various ground targets whose coordinates are known in advance.
Although the exact technical specifications of the Grom are still difficult to determine, available information indicates that the particular variant of the missile, the Grom-E1, weighs 594 kg, is 4.2 m long, 0.31 m in diameter, and has a wingspan of 1.9 m.
The missile is equipped with a 315 kg high-explosive warhead together with an impact detonator. The missile has an inertial navigation system and satellite control.
The Grom weapon system can be adapted to aircraft such as the Su-34, Su-35 and Su-57. The known range of these missiles is 70 km, but according to some data it can reach up to 120 km.
Based on Defense Express, Militarnyj and other sources.
2024-09-05 16:12:27