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The Russian military destroyed on July 13 another train transporting military equipment for Kiev forces in the Kharkiv region.
The train was targeted with two Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles while it was parked in a station in the settlement of Buda. At least 15 military trucks and five infantry fighting vehicles, including two German-made Marder 1A3, were destroyed in the strike. Some 100 Ukrainian troops were also killed or wounded.
This was the third such strike in less than two weeks. On July 29 and 30, two trains transporting military equipment for Kiev forces were struck in the Zaporozhie region and Kharkiv. Both strikes were also carried out using Iskander-M missiles.
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.
In recent months, the Russian military began to rely more on the missile to quickly target newly-discovered high-value targets with pinpoint precision.
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