How Ukrainians are plotting missile boom despite Putin’s onslaught

“Facilities producing solid fuel motors or hosting planetary mixers would come under sustained attack from Russia,” says Sidharth Kaushal, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. “It will be difficult to produce a MRBM [medium-range ballistic missile] or IRBM [intermediate-range ballistic missile] at the scale needed to be a useful conventional weapon.”