Anticipating the day when it will run out of bespoke American munitions - most notably, 190-mile-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) ballistic missiles - Ukraine is getting ready to build Trembitas and other long-range deep-strike munitions.
The Trembita combines a loud pulse jet engine with a simple structure - tube-shaped fuselage and square wing - and simple guidance. GPS, in this case. That simplicity lends the Trembita its best feature: its low cost.
That version, which should be ready in around a year, would undoubtedly cost more than $10,000 - but would still be potentially the cheapest deep-strike munition in the world. An ATACMS costs more than $1 million.
A barrage of Trembitas might work just fine against, say, a sprawling factory complex. It might not work so well against the underground command bunkers the Ukrainians have been aiming their Storm Shadows at.
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