SBU drones hit Arzamas plant in Russia — sources
The targeted enterprise is part of Russia’s
military-industrial complex, producing gyroscopic instruments, control systems,
onboard computers, and components for Kh-32 and Kh-101 missiles as part of the
Tactical Missiles Corporation, sources in Ukraine’s SBU Security Service told
NV on Aug. 11.
Preliminary reports said at least four SBU drones struck the
site, the sources said.
“Russian defense industry enterprises working on the war
against Ukraine are entirely legitimate military targets. The SBU continues
work to demilitarize facilities producing weapons for terrorizing peaceful
Ukrainian cities,” an SBU source told NV.
As Defense Express earlier reported, the Plandin Arzamas
Instrument-Making Plant, targeted by Ukraine’s long-range drones, is a key
producer in the Russian Kh-101 missile program.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, the facility in Arzamas
specializes in developing and manufacturing gyroscopic instruments, control
systems, onboard computers, steering actuators, testing and calibration
systems, and more.
Its work includes navigation systems for Kh-32 missiles,
damping gyroscope blocks for Kh-101 missiles, and self-destruct systems for the
Kh-59 missile family. Similar components could also be produced for new types
of Russian missiles, Defense Express wrote.
Analysts said FP-1 drones may have been used in the strike.
Notably, videos of the attack circulating online show no Russian air defense
systems in action, despite Arzamas hosting several defense industry facilities.
The city of Arzamas in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is
about 700 kilometers from Ukraine.
A series of explosions was heard in Arzamas overnight and in the morning, followed by a fire at the local instrument-making enterprise, APZ. The aggressor state’s Defense Ministry claimed it had “intercepted” two drones over Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on the morning of Aug. 11.
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