Small “needles” are fired: the network shows how modernized X-101 missiles distract Ukrainian air defense
The Russian armed forces are using modernized X-101 cruise missiles to strike Ukraine.
The expert published footage of a Russian missile flight, noting that the occupiers equipped it with technology to distract air defense radars.
“Rare footage. In the video, a Russian X-101 missile shoots false targets in the final section of the flight. This is not a simple heat trap, as is commonly believed, it is also a cloud of small “needles” of different lengths,” Flash reported.
Modernization of X-101: what is known
It was discovered that the modernized missiles shoot radar traps when the radar is fixed.