Europe Develops Ruta Block 3 Missile For Ukraine

It's cheaper than Tomahawk.

In Europe, the aerospace company Destinus together with the Rheinmetall arms concern are accelerating the development of a new missile Ruta Block 3, which will be tested in Ukraine.

This is reported on May 18 on the official website of Destinus.

The engineers report that Ruta Block 3 will be based on the architecture of the first version of the missile, which has already moved from combat testing to serial production. Destinus, in particular, specifies that the Ruta Block 1 is mass-produced in the Netherlands. Also, the company says they are expanding annual production capacity throughout their European industrial footprint.

"Europe is entering a new era of defense, where the decisive factor is no longer the availability of precision weapons, but the ability to produce, replenish and improve them on an industrial scale over long, high-intensity operations," Destinus CEO Michael Kokorich said.

He said the Ruta Block 3 is designed to meet the new reality of "a sovereign European architecture, distributed industrial production and the ability to scale rapidly across the union countries."

The Ruta Block 3 is planned to be equipped with a next-generation turbojet engine - an enlarged Destinus T220 currently in the design phase - as well as a 250-kilogram payload, engineers said. It is also expected that the range of the missile will reach 2 thousand kilometers.

In addition, it is expected that the Ruta Block 3 missiles will cost much cheaper than similar American Tomahawk missiles (in October 2025, according to the Pentagon's budget documentation, they cost $1.3 million per copy - ed.).

"The system will combine advanced autonomous navigation for conditions with degraded GNSS signal with terminal sensing and guidance capabilities currently under development. At the same time, it will have a standard ISO containerized launch architecture that supports deployment on land, sea and fixed sites," Destinus noted.

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