A missile launches inside Russia. Under five minutes later, it hits a city street in Ukraine. In that brief window, almost nothing can stop it — and almost nothing can catch the mobile truck that fired it before it vanishes back into the trees.
So why is Ukraine pouring its resources into hitting oil refineries and airfields hundreds of miles away — instead of blasting the launchers actually firing at its cities?
In this episode of Battle Plans Exposed, former British military intelligence planner Philip Ingram unpacks the military targeting chain: find, fix, and strike.
From the failure of the 1991 Gulf War Scud hunt to Russia’s Iskander-M, North Korean KN-23s, air-launched Kinzhals, and the hypersonic Oreshnik, we expose why hunting mobile launchers is one of the hardest problems in modern warfare — and why hitting fixed infrastructure remains Ukraine's best strategy.
Plus, a look at Britain’s Project Nightfall — the ground-launched 500km ballistic missile built specifically for Kyiv.
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Source: The Sun
