Russia Deploys a Mystery Munition in Ukraine

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The missiles fired into Ukraine come with a twist that makes them difficult to intercept, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The missiles have decoys that trick air defense radar.

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decoys that trick air-defense radars and heat-seeking missiles are what American intelligence officials have found in the missiles Russia has fired into Ukraine.

An American intelligence official said that the devices were shaped like a dart and white with an orange tail. They are released by the Iskander-M short-range missiles that Russia is firing from mobile launchers across the border, the official said, when the missile senses that it has been targeted by air defense systems.

Each is packed with electronics and produces radio signals to jam or spoof enemy radars trying to locate the Iskander-M. The devices were described on the condition of anonymity by the official.

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The use of decoys may help explain why Ukrainian air-defense weapons have had difficulty intercepting Russia's Iskander missiles.

According to U.S. government documents, the Iskander can reach targets more than 200 miles away. Before it must be reloaded, each mobile launcher can fire two Iskanders.

Two weeks ago, photographs of the dart-shaped munitions began circulating on social media. They had stumped experts and open-source intelligence analysts, many of whom mistook them for bomblets from cluster weapons.

Richard Stevens, who spent 22 years in the British Army as an explosives disposal soldier and later worked as a bomb technician for 10 years in southern Iraq, Africa and other regions, said he had been exposed to a lot of Chinese and Russian weapons.

Stevens found that no one else had seen the mystery munitions before he started the site in 2011.

I believe that Russia is using that size of weapon, and quite a few of them.

The devices are similar to decoys used in the Cold War and were designed to allow individual warheads to reach their targets. The Iskander-M that have conventional warheads has not been documented in military arsenals.

The minute people came up with missiles, people started trying to shoot them down, and then people started thinking about penetration aids.

The use of decoys may point to carelessness by Russian military leadership, Lewis said, given that Russia knows they will inevitably be collected and studied by Western intelligence services so that NATO air defenses can be programmed to defeat the Iskander.

He said that the version of the Iskander that Russia has sold to other countries would not contain these decoys.

Lewis said that the Russians place some value on keeping that technology close to home and that this war is important enough to give that up.

There are some people in the US intelligence community that are very excited.

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