I doubt that is true. Truth is probably somewhere in between those estimates. But cruise missiles stocks are certainly not like Ukraine said nor do they know the Russian missile production rate. I think it is a combination of high stocks and high production rate. Still, after this conflict, I think the Russians will probably have the most mass produced jet engine in history.There is a high suspicion Russia can maintain the current strike tempo indefinitely.
Simply from production lines.
Just so you know, in WW2, the Germans fired like 100 V-1 flying bombs a day at the UK. While that was a much simpler a design, with modern technologies and automated assembly who knows what the production rate of Russian cruise missiles can be. In modern terms the production cost might be the same.
Even if the Ukrainians try to estimate production rate based on their engine production rate of the cruise missile engine line they have which used Soviet era hand assembly, I think it will be wrong.
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