Ukraine strikes Iskander chip factory and rocket fuel plant
Instead of chasing supersonic missiles across the night sky, someone decided to go straight to the workshop where they solder their brains together.
In Oryol, a strike tore straight through the main production building of Proton-Electrotex. This is the place where Russia manufactures high-end power electronics, switches for Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and modules for Pantsir-S1 air defense rigs.
A thousand kilometers further east in Samara, drones paid a visit to Togliattikauchuk. The plant specializes in synthetic rubbers and chemical compounds needed to bake solid propellant for tactical missiles. It ended with smoke, fire, and a halted assembly chain.
Choking off the supply chain at the root saves a fortune compared to shooting down completed missiles with multimillion-dollar interceptors. To make the night complete, an aircraft sitting at the Yeysk airfield also took damage.
Building precision ballistic weapons tends to get rather complicated when both the microchips and the rubber fuel vanish overnight.
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