In the United States, they talked about a rare version of the Russian "Grad"
Photographs released by the Russian Navy of the Ivan Khurs ship in the Sevastopol Bay spotted a rare version of the Russian multiple launch rocket system based on the Grad MLRS. The picture shows the DP-62 Damba jet bombing system, writes the American edition of The Drive.
It is noted that the installation, similar to the BM-21 Grad combat vehicle, was placed on a breakwater in the Sevastopol Bay. The publication emphasizes that the standard MLRS can only partially improve protection against surface drones.
The limited usefulness of the standard BM-21, together with the rest of the specific context here, raises the clear possibility that the vehicle shown in the picture published by the Black Sea Fleet is in fact a port defense variant of the BM-21PD. .
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In March, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that the surface drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which they wanted to attack objects in Sevastopol, were destroyed.
