Russia is removing nuclear warheads from aging nuclear cruise missiles and firing blanks at Ukraine. Strikes are made to distract the air defense system.
About this reports British intelligence.
It is noted that the images from open sources show the wreckage of an apparently downed AS-15 KENT air-launched cruise missile (RKV), developed in the 1980s exclusively as a nuclear delivery system. The warhead was probably replaced by ballast.
According to British intelligence, while such an inert system would still cause some damage from the missile’s kinetic energy and any unspent fuel, it was unlikely to reliably engage targets.
Fuente: atn.ua