The ballistic missile system is known as "Tochka" (GRAU index 9K79, according to the INF Treaty - OTR-21 - NATO designation SS-21 Scarab,) was developed by the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau, under the direction of Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy, for the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.PHOTO By Владислав Фальшивомонетчик - Own work, CC…
According to Ukrainian officials, a Russian slogan that translates as "For the children" was written on the side of a Tochka-U missile that struck a train station in eastern Ukraine on Friday and killed dozens of people.PHOTO By Владислав Фальшивомонетчик - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0Two missiles struck the train station in Kramatorsk, which…