Is Russia running out of precision missiles?

Dusseldorf, Berlin The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service is raising hopes that the large-scale airstrikes will soon come to an end: Russia’s stockpiles of precision missiles were running out, Kyrylo Budanov said on state television this week. The arsenal is only sufficient for a few large air raids. But in times of perseverance slogans and war propaganda, caution is called for.

Experts doubt that Putin will soon run out of cruise missiles. It is true that Russia has already fired many of these missiles, which steer themselves to the target, in the unexpectedly long war. But the Kremlin is investing heavily in its arms industry. There are many indications that supplies are produced around the clock.

Markus Schiller, CEO of the analysis and consulting company ST Analytics for rockets and space travel in Munich, even assumes that possible material problems could only become apparent “in a few years” – although Russia no longer has many components important for the defense industry due to international sanctions can import. But necessity is known to be the mother of invention.