More horrific economic data out of Russia today, as the deficit officially hits a record not even seen during the collapse of the USSR.
Even with the recent blizzard of selling off state assets, Russia's January-August budgetary deficit surpasses all records.
❗️Ukraine’s SSO delivered the deepest strike against Russia of the entire war: on 9 September, Deep Strike drones flew over 3,000 km and hit the Novy Urengoy and Purovsky gas condensate plants in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug — a key oil-and-gas region previously regarded as an absolutely safe rear area.
Likely now surmising that the further they strike into Russia, the less air defenses there are, Ukraine breaks another all-time distance record, striking Russia's Novy Urengoy in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, with Fire Point confirming a 3,300-kilometer flight path, making this the deepest Ukrainian strike of the war.
Target seems to be Gazprom’s local condensate plant, a major link in the infrastructure that turns hydrocarbons extracted across Yamal into usable products. With annual throughput reaching 19.5 million tonnes, any disruption there could affect operations far beyond the immediate site.
🇨🇿#Czechia: The Narwhal cruise missile, developed by the Czech company LPP Holding, took first place in the prestigious NATO Innovation Challenge. With its Narwhal missile, LPP beat out more than 60 other competing projects; the evaluation was conducted by experts from @NATO_ACT and Ukraine.
The Narwhal is a ground-launched missile with a jet engine capable of delivering over 100 kg of explosives to a range of over 600 km. It reaches speeds of around 750 km/h and flies at low altitude. The company is already working on the development of two heavier variants designed to carry a warhead weighing up to 200 kg. The missile uses visual navigation with terrain tracking, which allows it to strike targets deep within enemy territory where GPS signals are jammed, and it is resistant to electronic warfare.
Based on the same principle, the company offers the MTS series OWA-UAVs, hundreds of which have already been delivered to Ukraine, as well as a glider called the Nightray, featuring “stealth” technology for destroying high-value targets.
LPP has seen significant interest in all of its products. The company already has several partners in other countries where it could begin production if there is interest and orders from the local armed forces.
Footage of the launch of the Ukrainian "Flamingo" cruise missile.
➡️ Range: 3,000 km;
➡️ Flight time: more than 4 hours;
➡️ Top speed: 950 km/h;
➡️ Wingspan: 6 meters;
➡️ Maximum takeoff weight: 6 tons;
➡️ Warhead weight: 1 ton.
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