Bastion-P anti-ship missiles are one of the weapon systems that are part of Russia's modernization of its military forces that will shatter the confidence of anyone at its receiving end.
After getting hit by unstoppable hypersonic missiles, the Ukrainians are getting another formidable Soviet hammer as Putin's revenge.
Zelensky's forces can only cry for weapons while Russian arms are getting more accurate in tearing apart the Ukrainians who once shelled the DPR and LPR viciously.
Russia Admits Firing Anti-Ship Missiles
Ukraine's forces are supposed to fare well against Russian federations forces after hyperfast missiles lobbed at them, but the Bastion will make the local defender sweat bullets, reported the EurAsian Times.
The Russian Ministry of Defense released a video last March 23 that shows its K-300P Bastion-P coastal defense missiles firing and hitting their targets.
The Ministry of Defense said the Bastion system fired and struck the hardware of Ukrainian troops accurately, wrecking even undisclosed western armaments.
Joe Biden and NATO leaders sent weapons to Ukraine despite the warning of terrible reprisals by the Kremlin, states CNBC.
They are now fair game, and weapon caravans will be blasted to bits, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview mentioned The Straits Times.
According to a Russian defense ministry spokesman, the ship killer missile was made to demolish Ukrainian military sites close to the Black Sea port of Odesa, per Al Jazeera,
This could indicate that the Bastion-P anti-ship missiles have been employed against Kyiv twice. Many open-source intelligence Twitter users suggest that the missiles were launched from a site in Crimea.
There were various lingering questions about why Russia uses some of its most sophisticated weapons. This year, it deployed Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to destroy a weapons storage depot in Ukraine, marking the weapon's first deployment.
It will intercept and destroy high-value naval vessels off the coast. Seen as the last line of defense, Moscow has implemented this system in some of its most strategic marine areas in the past few years.
Like China, the Kremlin invested in the K-300P coastal defense in Kuril Island. The isles are located in the northwest Pacific Ocean, which Tokyo and Moscow contest.
Once Crimea was annexed in 2014, the missiles were arming a brigade in Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. It is also used to deny NATO forces by stationing them in its territorial waters and huge Arctic coastline and resource-rich areas owned by Russia.
Ship Killer Specifications
K-300 Bastion-P or the SSC-5 Stooge are based on the P-800 Oniks supersonic ship killer cruise missile; could be used in warships and submarines called SS-N 26 Strobile (NATO term). Also, for export called the Yakhont.
It flies at Mach 2.2 with 180 miles as the target range; it has several important components like two command and control vehicles. Can fly high or low altitude as well.
Bastion-P anti-ship missiles work together to strike primary or secondary targets as programmed using an inertial navigation system supported by GLONASS to guide the missile.
Use for land strike makes it a versatile system to use in making short work of Ukrainian target and a layer of Russian missile strategy.
