Ukraine missile/rocket/PGM projects

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Unlike the Mk-80 series IIRC the Soviet FAB bombs have their tail-assemblies welded onto the bomb's body when they're manufactured.
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There is the Fab-500T,which has a separate tail section.

The russians have been using these on a stretched version of the UMPK glider with longer wings,theres even a JDAM-ER equivalent that uses this bomb with a new tail section and separate wing kit.
 

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Ukraine first showed the Koral SAM launcher​

https://militarnyi.com/uk/news/ukrayina-vpershe-pokazala-puskovu-ustanovku-zrk-koral/
The missile has a mass of 450 kg, of which 36 kg is the warhead. Its guidance system combines an inertial navigation system, radio correction and an active radar homing head.

The diameter of the rocket is 230/300 mm, the length is 4.8 m. The wingspan is 835 mm, and the rudder span is 685 mm.
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Seems it got a size/performance boost.

At the initial stage, the "Coral" had much more modest declared characteristics: a range of up to 30 km, a height of up to 10 km, a mass of about 300 kg and a warhead weighing 25 kg. The length of the missile was 4.33 m, diameter - 230/260 mm. At the same time, the designers emphasized that the specific characteristics could vary depending on the requirements of the customer.
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Interesting, this seems more built for Cruise missile interception, I doubt its Ballistic missile interception capabilities, but its very promising, wonder how they will reconcile this program with the FP-7x ballistic missile defence system. I suspect these were some of the initiatives that Fedorov was trying to get up to speed so that Ukraine's state defence firms performed as well as private companies like FirePoint. Great news otherwise.
 
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Ukraine's Shershen surface-to-air missile system was displayed at full scale for the first time at MSPO 2026. According to Oboronka, the launcher is designed to engage aerial targets using both Soviet- and Western-designed surface-to-air missiles. The exhibition also marked the first public showing of the new Ukrainian-developed R-120K missile for the system.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2097643386169684428
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Shershen SAM System: Ukraine Develops Multi-Caliber Air Defense Project​

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/shershen-sam-ukraine-air-defense-project/
 
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R-120K (Shershen) appears to be a literal R-3R(and S) from the outside.
I.e. an AIM-9B.
slroger said:
Interesting, this seems more built for Cruise missile interception, I doubt its Ballistic missile interception capabilities, but its very promising, wonder how they will reconcile this program with the FP-7x ballistic missile defence system.
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Coral was first shown in 2016 by Luch (i.e. one of the more successful companies of the old MIC), with a very different missile (rear section). They always claimed ability to match different modules together (like R-27) - that's probably what happened.

Firepoint are well connected upstarts, trying everything, simultaneously.
 
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