"I went to study in Kharkov and met this design, I admit that it is MZKT. Who will help to identify, as well as understand the purpose? "- So signed the photo user of social networks. The photo aroused the keen interest of all the participants in the discussion in the branch and immediately spread out all over the world.

Those who "in the subject" identified the "construction": it was the operational-tactical missile complex "Thunder".

It is used to destroy single and group stationary targets at distances from 50 to 280 kilometers, according to other sources, up to 450 kilometers.

The combat unit of a single-stage ballistic missile is projected to weigh 480 kilograms. This new weapon, the development of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, which was recently commissioned. In any case, back in April this year, the general designer of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, Alexander Degtyarev, at a press conference reported on the upcoming tests of Grom.