Ukraine has been working on ballistic missiles for many years under Sapsan (and its export version Hrim-2/Grom-2). The start of the Russian invasion affected this venture, causing the request to accelerate work and research another directions for the acquisition of long-range rockets. An example of this is the improvement of [a fresh variant of the Neptun anti-ship rocket intended to attack ground targets](https://defence24.pl/industry/Ukraine-extended-production-manufacturing) and the creation of subsequent types of drone-rocket/kamikazes with a scope of respective 100 kilometres as [‘Hell’24.pl/war-on-Ukrainian-report-special-defence24/Ukrainian-armia-dostal-hell-rosja-in-opals) or [Palanija](https://defence24.pl/war-on-Ukrainian-report-special-defence24/Zelenski-ukraina-create-new-dron-to-what-flanycia).
