Missile systems are rightly considered a powerful weapon for deterring external aggression and are capable of carrying out major strike missions. If the Armed Forces of Ukraine had several thousand different missiles – cruise and ballistic, as well as a deployed air defense system, it is unlikely that the Russian dictator Putin would dare to attack.

Ukraine has historically been a very strong missile-building power, and during the Cold War, 12 of the world's 20 most powerful strategic intercontinental missiles were created at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and Yuzhmash Production Association, including the unsurpassed R-36M missile (NATO classification name SS-18 Satan).

But Ukraine entered a full-scale war without a missile shield and a sword of deterrence.

From this text you will learn:

  • how we ended up at the bottom of rocketry in the first place;
  • what does the successful test (in May) of a Ukrainian ballistic missile mean?
  • How many ballistic missiles does Ukraine need to influence the course of the war with the Russian Federation?

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