Ukraine has claimed that it has damaged the Russian Black Sea Fleet Flagship \u2018Moskva\u2019 by Neptune Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n Neptune is a coastal<\/span> anti-ship cruise missile<\/b> that is capable of the <\/span>destruction of naval vessels in a range of 300 km.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The missile system was inducted into the <\/span>Ukrainian Defence Forces in 2021<\/b> after being in development for six years.<\/span><\/p>\n The design of this missile is based on a <\/span>Russian Kh-35<\/b> cruise missile, which goes by the <\/span>North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) name of AS-20 Kayak.<\/b><\/p>\n Moskva is a <\/span>guided missile cruiser of the Russian Navy<\/b> named after the city of Moscow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Moskva<\/span> was originally commissioned as the Slava in 1983. <\/b>It was recommissioned in 2000 as the Moskva with refurbished weapon systems and electronics.<\/span><\/p>\n It is the<\/span> flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy <\/b>and carries a crew of around 500 personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>\u00a0<\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cExplained: The Neptune cruise missile that severely damaged a Russian warship\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on<\/span> 16th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Ukraine has claimed that it has damaged the Russian Black Sea Fleet Flagship \u2018Moskva\u2019 by Neptune Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles. What is the Neptune Missile? Neptune is a coastal anti-ship cruise missile that is capable of the destruction of naval vessels in a range of 300 km.\u00a0 The missile system was inducted… Continue reading Explained: The Neptune cruise missile that severely damaged a Russian warship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-179719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704768089},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Neptune Missile?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is Moska?<\/b><\/h5>\n