10:15 02.10.2023

As result of drone strike on Smolensk aircraft plant in Russia, production process of X-59 missiles disrupted – intelligence

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As result of drone strike on Smolensk aircraft plant in Russia, production process of X-59 missiles disrupted – intelligence

On Sunday, October 1, attack UAVs attacked Smolensk aviation plant, where the X-59 missiles were produced, as a result of the attack, their production process was disrupted, the Main Intelligence Agency of the Defense Ministry said.

"On October 1, 2023, as a result of a strike on Smolensk Aviation Plant, the production process of X-59 missiles of various modifications has been disrupted. According to confirmed data, three out of four drones hit the target, causing significant damage to the production capacity of the military enterprise of the aggressor state," the agency said in the statement on the Telegram channel on Monday.

The Main Intelligence Agency said the Russians most often fire at civilian and military targets in Ukraine with these types of missiles.

The Kh-59 missile (modified Kh-59MK2) is an air-to-surface missile with a range of up to 280 kilometers.

"Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions suffer the most from the use of such weapons," according to the statement.

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