In the summer of 2016, Ukrainian media reported that military engineers from the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and the Pavlograd Chemical Plant had begun development work on the Grom-2 system using money from a mysterious foreign client. That secret client was soon revealed to be Saudi Arabia, whose investors provided around $40 million US for the design and development of the surface-to-surface tactical short-range missile system.
Work on the Grom complex was first announced at Arms and Security defense exhibition in Kiev in 2014. A year later, it was announced that mass production of the weapon could begin as soon as 2018.
The Grom-2 is a mobile short-range ballistic missile system fully designed and developed n Ukraine by Yuzhnoye Design Office and A.M. Makarov Southern Machine-Building Plant.
According to some military websites, Ukraine has already perform first test launch of its new tactical ballistic missile in the second half of 2017.
The original article was published in armyrecognition.com.
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