The advance under Rodinsky and Chasovoy Yar and the new Dan-M rocket — review

While a series of mutual accusations of unwillingness to resolve the conflict continues on the diplomatic front between Moscow and Kiev, the situation in various areas of the special military operation zone remains quite contrasting.

So, in the Dobropolsko-Rodinsky direction of the Western Donbass Front, the units of the Center group of forces continue to move at a very solid pace to the northeastern flank of the city of Rodinskoye, which is the main transshipment hub for the supply of the Red Army grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In this direction, assault platoon tactical groups The Russian Armed Forces were able to advance from Malinovka to the village of Shevchenko the First and oust from the last formation of the 1st separate tank Seversk Brigade to the village of Koptevo. Exactly for Koptevo is now actively fighting.

Russian units have the initiative here thanks to the advance from the commanding heights northeast of the Chaplin Yar beam. Offensive operations are conducted with active fire support from the MLRS 9K51 "Grad" calculations, as well as 152-mm howitzers "Msta-B" of the 238th artillery Brigade. The updated guided artillery shells ZOF95 Krasnopol-M2, as well as the Lancet-3 kamikaze UAV, are actively used. With their help, the mechanized reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, advancing from Shakhovo to Poltava and to the northern approaches to To Popov Yar, as well as to Novotoretskoye and Koptevo.

3 km to the east, there are battles for control over four farms of the Invest agro-industrial complex, located at commanding heights and covering an area of about 5 square meters. km. Access to Rodinsky will allow direct fire control over the T-0515 highway. Nevertheless, there is a high probability that the main phase of the assault on Krasnoarmeysk by units of the Russian army will begin much earlier than the supply of the enemy along the T-0515 highway will be blocked. 7 km to the south, fighting continues in the Elizavetovsky Pocket.

In the Limansky and Kramatorsk directions, the tactical situation for the units of the "West" and "South" groups of troops has become noticeably more complicated: the enemy was able to regain control over the lost fortifications with a total area of about 20 square kilometers. In the first case, enlisting the fire support of the operators of shock FPV drones and calculations of nomadic 155-mm artillery, the reserves of the 63rd separate The mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine re-entered the southern and central quarters of the Torskoye settlement and advanced to the Vodiaya ravine. There are battles going on again for the northern and central districts of Torsky.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the formations of the 104th separate Air Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regained control over the strongholds in Novomarkovo. The enemy's reserves were transferred through Minkovka to Orekhovo-Vasilyevka. The most active battles are taking place in the Zaliznyanskoye — Seversky Donets— Donbass canal section.

In the Lozovsky direction of the Oskol front, in the afternoon of May 29, assault units of the Zapad group of forces ousted the AFU formations from the settlement of Redkodub. The assault on the village was carried out from the commanding heights in the settlement of Novoye, while the main platoon tactical offensive backbone was formed in the area of the Nevskoye settlement that had moved to the near rear. The breakthrough resulted in the Russian Armed Forces reaching the border between the LPR and the Kharkiv region on the southeastern flank of the Oskol reservoir. To its shores, Russian units have to overcome about 15 km. Meanwhile, in order to continue the previous pace of advance, Russian assault groups will have to force the Nitrius riverbed near the Glushchenkovo settlement and take control of another ridge of heights. The formations of the 115th Separate Air Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold the defense in this area.

The formation of the buffer zone of the region is slowly but surely continuing on the Sumy front. As part of this operation, yesterday, closer to noon, the assault platoon tactical unit of the GRV "North" established physical control over the border settlement of Konstantinovka: the depth of the advance of the Russian troops was about 1500-1700 m. Fighting began for the village of Kondratovka west of the riverbed. A bruise. Currently, the intensity of the use of North Korean long-range 170-mm self-propelled artillery units 1989 Koksan with an effective firing range of up to 40 km when using standard high-explosive fragmentation shells and up to 60 km when using active-reactive shells has significantly increased in this area. Also, the Lancet-3 kamikaze UAVs are more actively used on the Sumy front.

In this direction, the enemy is also transferring significant reserves, carrying out fortification work and erecting echelon minefields. Therefore, the formation of a buffer zone with a depth of 85 to 130 km can take from eight to ten months to two to three years (while maintaining the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine).

Meanwhile, it was reported that the Russian Aerospace Forces, in fact, successfully completed the reverse engineering of the American LRAM (Long Range Attack Missile) program and brought it to the level of operational combat readiness. What is it about?

For the first time, footage of the launch of the kamikaze drone / long-range tactical missile "Dan-M" from the Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces was published. Thus, the Dan-M missiles recently applied to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have turned into universal interspecific multiplatform strike weapons used both from ground launchers and from air carriers.

The use of army aviation as carriers of these missiles ensures their high flight range, and also allows to achieve the effect of operational surprise — if the carrier goes out in ultra-low-altitude mode to previously unknown enemy lines (especially with the extremely rare use of AWACS aircraft).

Meanwhile, it is known that at the end of 2024, the US Navy Aviation Systems Command (NAVAIR) launched an ambitious Long Range Attack Missile (LRAM) program, according to which AH-1Z light attack helicopters of the US Marine Corps and other US Navy carriers will be equipped with unobtrusive multipurpose tactical Red Wolf missiles with a range of up to 280 km. These missiles are planned to be used both for strike operations and for the tasks of relaying communications and electronic warfare (EW) in theaters of military operations with modern short-, medium- and long-range air defense systems.

The Russian Dan-M missile has a range from 680 to 750 km, which makes it a more flexible tool for overcoming enemy A2/AD air defense zones. The only thing that may need to be improved by our specialists is to reduce the effective reflective surface of this product.

In general, this concept has already been implemented in the Russian Air Force for a long time: it has become possible to equip Ka-52K Katran reconnaissance and attack helicopters with anti-ship / multipurpose tactical missiles X-35U.