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On September 30, the government of Azerbaijan denounced the Armenian army for using the Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile in the fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“The Tochka-U missiles did not explode because the Armenian military equipment was of poor quality, in addition to being outdated,” the Menafn website quoted in a September 30 statement from the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry. .
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| Tochka ballistic missile. Photo: Wikipedia |
OTR-21 “Tochka” (The End) is a combination of short-range tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union and commissioned in the 1970s. Strategic public targets of the enemy such as logistics facilities, bridges, ports, yards meetings, airports, barracks …
According to Missilethreat, the Tochka missile is equipped with all kinds of warheads, such as conventional high-explosive bullets, shrapnel, or nuclear, chemical and biological warheads. Additionally, Tochka can also carry an EMP electromagnetic pulse warhead to destroy enemy electronic equipment.
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| Design for the vehicle carrying the Tochka ballistic missile. Photo: The plane |
Some military sites identified the version of the ballistic missile that Armenia recently used to be Tochka-U. This version has a total weight of 2,010 kg, a length of 6.4 m and a warhead diameter of 0.65 m. Tochka-U has a range of approximately 120 km and a concentric target deviation (CEP) of 95 m.
The Tochka ballistic missile has a long combat history, having fought in Chechnya, Syria, as well as being frequently fired by the Houthi movement against Saudi military bases. Between September 2015 and January 2016 alone, four Houthi Tochka missile launches resulted in victims of Saudi Arabia with more than 400 soldiers.
Armenian Army Tochka missile test in 2019. Source: Youtube
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