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The Russian military has targeted a large gathering of the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) in the Kharkiv region with an Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile.
The gathering was discovered by a reconnaissance drone near the settlement of Peresechnoye, according to Russian media, which reported that some 160 troops from the NGU’s 13th “Khartia” Brigade were killed in the missile strike.
Video footage of the strike surfaced online on July 16. The footage showed submunitions from the Iskander-M missile raining down on the gathering right after the arrival of several buses loaded with troops. Later in the footage, ambulances can be seen heading to the scene of the strike.
The Iskander-M missile has a range of nearly 500 kilometers. It can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
Russia increased the production of Iskander-M missiles after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
In recent months, the Russian military began to rely more on the missile to quickly target high-value Ukrainian targets far behind the frontline.
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