"Within the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian missile forces and artillery successfully use precision-guided munitions of Tornado-S. These weapons guarantee high accuracy and effectiveness against targets, in particular, when destroying militants of Ukrainian nationalist groups and hitting artillery positions during counter-battery fire," the source said.
The source added that the precision-guided munition of Tornado-S surpass the equivalent weapons of the US HIMARS in terms of the firing range, the warhead power capacity and accuracy.
According to open sources, precision-guided missiles 9M544 and 9M549 have been developed for the Tornado-S systems, which have an increased firing range of 120 kilometers (74,5 miles) and a circular error probability radius of 5-7 meters (16-23 feet). The Tornado-S was created on the basis of the Smerch system, developed in the Soviet Union, and has been supplied to the Russian military since 2019.