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The Russian military has wiped out a field command post belonging to the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura” of Kiev forces near the settlement of Korovintsy in the Ukrainian region of Sumy.
Video footage posted to social networks on April 23 showed multiple pinpoint strikes on the field command post. The devastating attack was reportedly carried out with Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles and Tornado-S guided artillery rockets.
As a result of the strikes, two communication antennas, three communication and command vehicles, and five motor vehicles were destroyed. A total of 65 Ukrainian troops were also killed or wounded, including 40 signal officers.
The main armament of the Iskander-M system, the 9M723 missile, is said to have a range of nearly 500 kilometers. The highly-maneuverable missile 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 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.
Meanwhile, the 9М542 rocket fired by the Tornado-S system is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system and has a maximum range of up to 120 kilometers. The rocket is typically armed with a cluster munitions warhead or a high-explosive fragmentation warhead.
The Russian military launched a major offensive in the Russian region of Kursk, which neighbors Sumy, last month. Kiev forces were expelled from the region as a result. Currently, an unknown number of Ukrainian troops are trapped along the region’s border and the Russian military is developing its offensive into Sumy.
In recent weeks, Russian missile and drone strikes inflicted heavy losses on Kiev forces in Sumy. The strikes targeted everything from troops, to vehicles and large gatherings.
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