{"id":1347527,"date":"2026-01-22T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-may-have-used-rm-48u-decoy-training-missiles-against-ukraine-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:38:20","slug":"russia-may-have-used-rm-48u-decoy-training-missiles-against-ukraine-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-may-have-used-rm-48u-decoy-training-missiles-against-ukraine-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia may have used RM-48U decoy training missiles against Ukraine for the first time."},"content":{"rendered":"

During the January 20 night shelling of Ukraine, Russia likely used RM-48U training missiles for the first time, which were originally designed as decoys for air defense training.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Telegraph writes<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n

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The article refers to these missiles as “zombie missiles” because the RM-48Us are modifications of the 5V55 or 48N6 missiles, which have expired and been removed from combat duty. They are typically used as aerial targets during S-300 and S-400 air defense training.<\/p>\n

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The basic 5V55 and 48N6 missiles can carry a payload of 133 to 180 kg. However, since they were not designed for striking ground targets, their modified versions are likely not highly accurate.<\/p>\n

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The publication notes that the use of such missiles allows Russia to increase the intensity of shelling of Ukrainian cities and force Ukraine to expend expensive air defense assets to intercept them. During the attack, the RM-48U was able to penetrate Ukrainian air defenses, but it is still unknown whether it had a warhead or was used solely as a decoy.<\/p>\n

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During the January 20 night shelling of Ukraine, Russia likely used RM-48U training missiles for the first time, which were originally designed as decoys for air defense training. The Telegraph writes about this. The article refers to these missiles as “zombie missiles” because the RM-48Us are modifications of the 5V55 or 48N6 missiles, which have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":885296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1347527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}