To blow up Russia's S400 battery in Crimea Ukraine tweaked its Cruiser sinking Neptune missile the Ukrainian Navy reportedly used some of its Neptune anti-ship missiles in the missiles secondary land attack mode to blow up a Russian Air Force s 400 air defense battery in Western Crimea according to Forbes it is noted that the one ton Neptune can strike Targets on the ground should come as no surprise
Ukraine's look design Bureau model the Neptune on the Russian kh-35 itself an answer to the American Harpoon anti-ship missile which also has a land Attack Mode the Russian Air Force deployed the s-400 battery to Cape takankut in Crimea in 2016 two years after Russian forces invaded the Strategic Peninsula the S400 and its attached podlet K1 radar Hood detect and strike aircraft and missiles 200 miles away
allowing it to control the entire Western Black Sea as far west as the part of Odessa in southern Ukraine the s-400 the Pod elect radar and other weapons on the Crimean Cape including a battery of and anti-ship missiles topped the list of prospective targets as Ukraine expanded its deep strike capability this year to extend the range at which its forces can attack Russia's forces Ukraine has acquired American-made
Harpoon ground-launched anti-ship missiles plus Western made air-launched cruise missiles British storm shadows and French scalps at the same time Ukraine has developed its own deep strike munition including s-200 ground launched air defense missiles that the Ukrainian air force modified into land attack weapons the Ukrainian Navy made similar modifications to its Neptune ground-launched anti-shipmissiles which
most famously hold and sank the Russian Navy Cruiser muscova in April 2022 the low-flying subsonic Neptune Neptune lends itself to the land attack roll just like its predecessor missiles the kh-35 and Harpoon do with a 225 mile range a Neptune battery could fire from the relative safety of Odessa and strike Russian forces across most of Crimea the last strike on the s-400 battery might be the first time
Ukraine has used the modified Neptune in Anger Russian Air Force officials surely are asking themselves why the S400 their best air defense system failed to intercept the very Neptune that destroyed it the S400 raid probably won't be the last for the upgraded Neptune .
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