How many cruise missiles the enemy has: the expert provided exact numbers
Speaking as if the Russian army has reached a critically low threshold of cruise missile reserves is premature.
How many cruise missiles the enemy has
The cruise missiles used by Russians to attack Ukraine (X-55, X-555, and X-22) are Soviet-made munitions that are no longer being produced. Currently, Russia is engaged in the serial production of winged missiles such as the X-101/X-102, "Kalibr," and that's actually all. The Russian Federation is also planning to put the X-50 Orion cruise missile into mass production. And 600 missiles were previously transferred by Ukraine to the Russian Federation as payment for gas debt.
Military expert and aviation history researcher Mykhailo Zhyrokhov told NV about this.
He is convinced: it is still too early to talk about the fact that the Russian army has reached a critically low limit of cruise missile reserves.
Regarding the reserves of Soviet winged missiles, according to the expert, they are still quite substantial.
"Remember that as recently as 1999, Ukraine transferred approximately 600 X-55 winged missiles to Russia as payment for gas debts," Zhyrokhov reminded.
He said that currently the Russians are trying to produce X-55 missiles on their own from working components from decommissioned Soviet ammunition. But these are rather individual cases, and not serial production.
"Currently, they generally work in three shifts, adapt electronics to Chinese components and increase production," Zhyrokhov said.
The expert confirmed the problems with the production of the ‘Kalibr’ missile in the Russian Federation, however, the Russians steadily manufacture the X-101 and many times more than they did before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"Therefore, taking into account the already used cruise missiles, I would now talk about a total stockpile of about one and a half thousand missiles. In addition, there is still an untouched stockpile, perhaps 10-20%, which the Russians keep in warehouses in case of a collision with NATO, about which they constantly talk," the military expert said.
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