Named the technical features of the charge on the drone that got into the Moscow house
The cumulative charge KZ-6 on a drone that got into a residential building on Profsoyuznaya Street in Moscow during a morning attack is capable of penetrating armor. Military expert Alexei Leonkov spoke about this in a conversation with Lenta.ru. He also named the technical features of this ammunition.
“Shape charges are used primarily to hit armored vehicles. But at the same time, they can be used, if we are talking about civilian objects, to break through them. Or, for example, [attack] an oil depot or some kind of storage. [Projectile] pierces metal shells, the shaped charge causes a fire. They have a big fantasy about it. It is clear that there are no armored vehicles in Moscow, but in order to achieve some effect with a lot of smoke, a fire, they could attack something so that it burned and was visual, ”he explained.
The charge model became known earlier on May 30. KZ-6 is not designed to defeat manpower or to fire.
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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported damage to some buildings as a result of the incident. Drones crashed into residential buildings on Atlasova and Profsoyuznaya streets, as well as on Leninsky Prospekt. Two victims are known to have not required hospitalization.
In addition, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein published an initial list of crash sites for downed drones in the Moscow region: the village of Ilyinskoye and the village of Timoshkovo in the Krasnogorsk District, the villages of Razdory and Romashkovo in the Odintsovo District, and the village of Greenfield in the Istra District.
Kyiv denies any involvement. “We watch with pleasure and predict an increase in the number of attacks, but, of course, we have no direct relationship,” said Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine.
