Sebastien Roblin
Security, Eurasia
While the world worries over other weapons platforms created by Moscow, this one is inflicting some serious battlefield losses.
While NATO may preoccupied with the capabilities of Russia’s Iskander missile, the far more primitive Tochka, codenamed the SS-21 Scarab by NATO, has been responsible for hundreds of deaths in the last twelve months at the hands of Yemeni rebels and the Syrian and Ukrainian governments.
Tactical ballistic missiles afford ground commanders a means to make precision attack on installations, commander centers, troop concentrations, supply depots and airfields behind enemy lines without needing to control the airspace overhead. They can …read more
Source: The National Interest
