Of course, with the collapse of the Russian economy in recent years, the military budget has been decreasing year by year, and the funds for purchasing weapons have not increased. This, coupled with western economic sanctions against Russia, makes it difficult to obtain many electronic components needed by Russian military industry from formal channels. Therefore, when Russia failed to use a large number of precision-guided weapons in the early days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, people speculated that Russian missile production was unsustainable.
Ordinary people's understanding of precision guided weapons may have started from the Gulf War of 199 1 year. During the Gulf War, the U.S. military invested heavily in the development of various new precision-guided weapons and achieved considerable operational results. For example, at the beginning of the war, the US military launched a large number of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the warships Missouri and Wisconsin in the Persian Gulf, which directly destroyed various strategic targets in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The helicopter crossed the Iraq-Sahara border through the ultra-low altitude infiltration route, and used Hellfire anti-tank missiles to completely destroy two large radar stations on the Iraq-Sahara border, opening a safe passage for the air force personnel of the multinational force.
In the whole Gulf War, the US military only used about 10% of ammunition, but destroyed 40% of the targets, which changed the global view of war. Russian troops often use iskander M-type short-range surface-to-surface missiles, Kalib cruise missiles and even dagger hypersonic missiles in Ukraine. These precision-guided weapons have a good performance, which proves that the performance of Russian precision-guided weapons is not much different from that of western countries.