Sweden Just Gave Ukraine Something So TERRIFYING… Putin Knows It’s OVER!

The Magical Spear of Odin sounds like something
pulled straight out of Norse mythology.A godlike weapon, perhaps offered as the reward for
completing a quest in a game of D&D.

But the spear is real.

It’s in Ukraine right now.

And thanks
to Sweden, Ukraine has something so terrifying in its hands that Putin knows he can’t stop
what’s coming.

Gungnir has arrived.

And there’s nothing that Russia can do about it.

Russia knows
that is the case because Gungnir isn’t just some weapon that Sweden has promised to deliver to
Ukraine at some point in the distant future.

It’s not only already in Ukraine, but it was used in
one of the most devastating strikes that Ukraine has carried out against Russia’s military and
oil infrastructure in the Black Sea to date.

We thought we knew everything that Ukraine was
willing to reveal about that strike.

On April 6, the news broke that Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems
Forces had worked alongside the country’s naval forces to launch a devastating strike against
Russia’s Syvash offshore oil drilling platform in the Black Sea.

While damaging that platform
would be important for Ukraine in terms of landing another blow against Russia’s oil
industry, the real reason why it struck the Syvash platform was that Russia has been using it
as a surveillance and military outpost for much of the war with Ukraine.

Radars for short-range air
defense systems had been loaded onto the platform, along with electronic warfare systems, all of
which transformed it into a military asset, rather than an oil one.

Ukraine took Syvash
down.

And as far as we knew, it did it using drones.

That’s essentially what the commander of
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert Brovdi, claimed when he announced the attack in a
Telegram post.

“The floating drilling rig ‘Syvash’ was worked out by the Birds of 413 op
‘Reid’ together with the forces of the Navy’s deep-sea attack,” Brovdi declared.

And it’s not
like he was lying.

Video soon surfaced of Ukraine attacking Syvash using drones, seemingly launched
from maritime drones sent into the Black Sea.

So, that was it.

The operation was done and
dusted, and we knew how Ukraine had pulled it off.

But looks can be deceiving, and Brovdi,
purposefully or not, had left out a key part of the equation that has since been revealed.

It wasn’t just drones that struck Syvash on the night leading into April 6.

Ukraine had also
unleashed Swedish Gungnir missiles.

On April 7, The Kyiv Post reported that the Ukrainian navy
had revealed, and then later confirmed, the use of the Swedish-made RBS-15 missile in the Syvash
strike.

Known as Gungnir, which loosely translates into the “Magical Spear of Odin,” the missile is
an anti-ship powerhouse, and, until this point, it wasn’t really known whether Ukraine had the
missile or not.

The outlet reports that a video made public by Ukraine’s navy has revealed that
Gungnir was used in the strike against Syvash, and that footage has sent a shockwave through
Russia.

Lasting for about 20 seconds, the footage shows Ukraine launching its Swedish missiles
from what appears to be a ground-based platform.

The OSINTWarfare X account notes that this is the
first public appearance made by the Gungnir in the Ukraine war, though it seems that Ukraine has
had access to Sweden’s powerful missiles for much longer.

We’ll be getting back to that point soon.

First, the video shared by OSINTWarfare appears to show two launches of the Swedish missile.

The Kyiv Post adds that other footage that has surfaced shows those missiles scoring direct
hits against the Syvash platform, which it says lies about 60 to 80 kilometers, or about 37 to 50
miles, northwest of the Crimean coast.

Comparisons between the videos and clearer pictures of the
launchers typically used for the Gungnir offer further confirmation that Ukraine has indeed
deployed the Swedish missile.

Don’t ignore the proximity of the Syvash platform to the Crimean
coast, either.

That gives you some indication of why Ukraine chose this specific oil drilling rig
to target.

The electronic warfare devices and air defense systems that Russia has loaded onto the
Syvash platform were clearly in place to protect Russian assets in Crimea.

Now, those defenses
are burning.

Struck by the Magical Spear of Odin, with follow-up strikes carried out by Ukraine’s
drones, that oil drilling rig can no longer act as an early warning system for occupied Crimea.

We anticipate reporting on a strike against the Crimean mainland, perhaps against targets off the
coast that Syvash was protecting, in the very near future.

For now, we can confirm that the RBS-15
is officially part of Ukraine’s arsenal.

That has caught everybody off guard, not least Putin and
his Kremlin cronies, who thought that Ukraine was increasingly being forced to rely on the missiles
that it is building itself as its stockpiles of Western missiles dried up.

Syvash just showed
Putin that Ukraine isn’t in a “one of the other” situation.

It has both its own missiles and
Western missiles, and it can use them to hit some of the most important military assets that Russia
has in Crimea.

So, Putin has to deal with yet another Western missile being provided to Ukraine.

And this is where things start to shift on the battlefield.

The arrival of the Gungnir in Ukraine
isn’t just dangerous for Russia in terms of the firepower that the missile brings to the table.

It’s also yet another sign to Putin that his attempts to intimidate Sweden into staying neutral
have failed.

Russia has instead turned what for centuries had been a country that tried to stay
out of war into one that is actively arming a Russian enemy and is doing everything that it can
to stop Putin in his tracks.

We’ll be exploring the second of these points soon, so stick with
us until then.

As for the missile that Ukraine has just deployed to shatter Syvash, it’s the last
thing that Russia wants to see in Ukraine’s hands.

Why? A look at the basic specifications of the
missile is enough to answer that question.

Made by Saab Bofors Dynamics, the RBS-15, or Robotsystem
15 if we want to get non-Norse about it, is actually a full-blown family of anti-ship
missiles that have been designed to combine the ship-shattering capabilities you’d expect
from this kind of missile with a land-attack capability that makes it extremely versatile.

The
missile’s range can extend beyond 300 kilometers, or 186 miles, though this depends on the specific
version of the Gungnir that is used.

The warhead weighs around 200 kilograms, or about 440 pounds,
and the missile is almost capable of hitting Mach 1.

It comes in just under, at Mach 0.

9, but that
still translates to a speed of about 690 miles per hour.

So, Ukraine has its hands on a missile that
moves fast, hits hard, and has a long enough range to be used to strike all sorts of targets in the
Black Sea, Crimea, and the occupied territories of mainland Ukraine.

The Kyiv Post adds that the
RBS-15 uses a combination of GPS and inertial navigation to stay on track when fired toward
a target.

It also has a terminal active radar, which gives it homing capabilities that feed into
the fire-and-forget functionality that makes the missile so effective.

That functionality offers
precisely what it says on the tin – Ukraine can program a target into the missile, fire, and then
forget about having to make any manual mid-flight adjustments, as the missile handles everything
else itself.

We mentioned earlier that the RBS-15 is actually a family of missiles.

That has led
to speculation about which versions Ukraine has, and which it used to strike the Syvash oil rig.

Naval News has some potential answers here.

It says that the footage that Ukraine’s navy
released of the missile being fired first confirms the use of the RBS-15 because we see a double
exhaust plume emitted during the launch phase.

That’s a characteristic that the Swedish missile
is known to have, and is also one that is absent in all of the other missiles that Ukraine is
known to have in its arsenal.

The outlet adds that the version Ukraine used is likely to have been
either the Mk III or Mk IV variety of the Gungnir, both of which have several upgrades over early
iterations.

The enhancement of the range up to and over 200 kilometers, or 124 miles, is one of
those upgrades.

If Ukraine is using the Gungnir to attack Russian facilities in the Black Sea,
that extended range is a must.

It’s also worth noting that Ukraine’s target was a strange cross
between land and sea-based.

An offshore oil rig isn’t exactly a ship, though you could argue that
it shares some characteristics, especially as it is based in the ocean.

At the same time, it’s
not really a land target, though it will have strengths and vulnerabilities that aren’t seen
on vessels.

That mishmash makes the use of the Mk III or Mk IV version of the RBS-15 even more
likely, as these are the versions of the Swedish missile that were made to be capable of striking
targets on land and at sea.

Versatility, then, is key to what makes the Magical Spear of Odin such
a massive addition to Ukraine’s arsenal.

However, there’s one more factor at play.

That factor
alone changes everything and makes the RBS-15 the perfect choice for the strike that Ukraine
just pulled off.

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So, the other factor… The RBS-15 was already a good choice for the attack on
Syvash based on its range and strength.

However, there’s something else about that platform that
we mentioned earlier in the video that may have caught your attention.

In addition to the air
defense radars on the oil rig that Ukraine wanted to take out, Russia has been using the
Syvash oil platform for its electronic warfare, or EW, devices.

Through EW, Russia is able to
scramble GPS signals and send both drones and missiles off course.

That’s where the RBS-15
comes into play.

The missile has been optimized not only to operate in coastal and open-sea
environments, but it is also equipped with electronic counter-countermeasures.

In other
words, the Gungnir has EW of its own that it can use to counteract the EW Russia is employing
against Ukraine’s missiles and drones.

It’s a fire-versus-fire approach.

And what it means
is that the RBS-15 is innately resistant to the GPS jamming and spoofing techniques that
the EW devices loaded onto the Syvash platform employ that stop attacks just like the one
that Ukraine pulled off on April 6.

So, the Magical Spear of Odin likely set the stage for
what was to come later.

Ukraine used its Swedish missiles to shatter Russia’s Syvash EW systems and
then followed up with the drone strikes that we already knew about.

Those drones, unencumbered
by Syvash’s EW presence, could then strike the oil drilling platform’s air defense radars with
a level of precision that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible.

This is an incredibly intelligent
and layered approach to a strike.

Ukraine, once again, has shown Russia that its approach to deep
strikes goes far beyond merely pointing missiles and drones at a target and hoping that they hit.

The Syvash strike was well-planned at every stage, and the Gungnir was key to making the whole thing
work.

That’ll worry Putin.

He knows that future strikes against Russian assets in Crimea have been
made possible by the destruction of Syvash.

But the real question he’ll be asking himself is how
on Earth this happened in the first place? Russia has been caught with its pants down as Ukraine
has unleashed a weapon that it hasn’t used before.

However, if Putin was paying attention, he
would have had at least an inkling that something like this was coming.

Though the arrival of the
Magical Spear of Odin appears to have been quiet, it’s actually the result of dealings between
Ukraine and Sweden that have been a long time in the making.

Sweden set its stall out pretty early
when it came to who it supported following Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Way back in
June 2022, the country committed to a defense package that would see it send anti-tank weapons,
12.

7-millimeter rifles, and, most importantly, RBS-17 anti-ship missiles to Ukraine.

That
particular missile is essentially the Swedish version of the U.

S.

-made Hellfire, only it had
been adapted so it could be launched from warships or via a ground firing post that could easily be
set up and dismantled anywhere alongside Ukraine’s coast.

That was a warning to Russia.

Sweden was
willing to arm Ukraine with missiles from the very beginning of the Ukraine war and, as Militarnyi
noted at the time, the far more powerful RBS-15 was still waiting in the wings.

However, not a lot
seemed to happen on the Swedish missile front for the two years after the arrival of the RBS-17.

And then…something changed.

We didn’t hear much about it at the time, as it was underreported in
the media.

But according to The Kyiv Post, Sweden and Ukraine signed a deal at some point in 2024
for the transfer of RBS-15 missiles to Ukraine.

That means one of two things.

Either it has taken
around two years for Sweden to deliver on that deal, which is why we’re only now seeing the
emergence of the Gungnir in the Ukraine war.

Or Ukraine received this missile months, if not
years, ago, and it has been waiting for the perfect time to unleash it.

Either way, Russia
has just felt the power of the Magical Spear of Odin.

And there could be a lot worse to come.

The
Kyiv Post adds that Sweden is far from the only country that uses the RBS-15.

Thailand, Algeria,
Bulgaria, Poland, Germany, Finland, and Croatia also operate the missile.

Of those countries, all
of the European nations are active supporters of Ukraine’s defense against Russia, and they have
all transferred weapons to Ukraine in the past.

Now, we know that Sweden has signed a deal with
Ukraine to transfer RBS-15 missiles.

But what about Germany? Or Finland? Do they have deals in
the works? Have those deals already been signed, and we just haven’t heard about them? Could
negotiations for Gungnir transfers begin now that Ukraine knows exactly how useful its Swedish
missiles can be against Russia? These are all questions that, for now, are unanswered.

They are
also questions that should be ringing out around the Kremlin, as any of these nations sending
Gungnir missiles to Ukraine could mean that more attacks against facilities like Syvash lie in
Russia’s future.

And it gets worse for Russia.

Not only is Sweden supplying its Syvash-shattering
missiles to Ukraine, but it’s actively working alongside Putin’s enemy on the development of more
missiles.

That’s according to Defense Express, which reported back in January 2025 that defense
officials from Ukraine and Sweden had met to agree on a new joint initiative for the development of
a long-range weapon.

We haven’t heard a lot more about that deal since the Defense Express report.

But what it shows us is that military cooperation between Ukraine and Sweden is intensifying.

Putin
has to be wondering how things got to this point.

Before he launched his invasion, Sweden seemed to
be a non-factor to Russia.

For 200 years before the Ukraine war, Sweden had steadfastly pursued
a policy of military neutrality and non-alignment that was designed to ensure the country didn’t
get dragged into other people’s wars.

Then, the tanks started rolling into Ukraine, and
everything changed for the Swedes.

For the first time in two centuries, Sweden saw a threat that
it needed to work to counter.

The attitude in the country became clear.

First, Putin would target
Ukraine.

Then, he might shift his attention to the Baltic and Nordic nations.

Russia’s aggression
is what led to Sweden giving up two centuries of neutrality to become one of the newest members of
NATO.

That move was made official in March 2024, and it led to the expansion of the collective
defense organization that Putin has often used as one of the reasons for launching his invasion
in the first place.

Russia wanted NATO to get smaller.

To get rid of the nations on its
Eastern flank that Putin believes encroach too closely on Russian territory.

However,
all that Putin has achieved with his invasion, at least from the Swedish perspective, is turning
a neutral nation into an enemy.

Beyond NATO, Sweden has also thrown its support behind Ukraine.

We’ve touched on that already with the missile and weapons transfers that started as far back as
June 2022.

But the alliance between Sweden and Ukraine runs much deeper, and that is a major
problem for the Kremlin.

Since February 2022, Sweden has contributed over $13.

7 billion to
Ukraine’s war effort.

Deals are also being signed, as we see with the transfer of RBS-15 missiles to
Ukraine.

Other deals involve even more dangerous assets, such as the one signed between Ukraine
and Sweden that will see the latter deliver up to 150 of its Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine over
the course of the next decade.

Sweden even has Russia in its cultural crosshairs, as meetings
between Sweden and Ukraine’s cultural ministers show that it wants to work with its newest
ally on de-Russification across the board.

When Putin invaded Ukraine, he was meant to
win quickly.

The so-called “special military operation” would be over in days, and Russia would
be able to use that victory to intimidate other European countries.

But as Ukraine defended
itself and Russia got bogged down in a war that has now lasted for more than four years,
all Putin has succeeded in doing is being the catalyst for alliances to be forged that would
never have existed if his forces had stayed put.

Now, Sweden is an enemy.

One that is actively
treating Russia as the largest threat to its national security, which is what has laid the
foundation for so much of the cooperation between Ukraine and Sweden that we’re seeing today.

So,
the Magical Spear of Odin being unleashed against Russia is important because of the immediate
results that it has achieved.

Ukraine’s Swedish missiles have taken out a key Black Sea radar and
EW outpost, and that will lead to the creation of more aerial corridors that Ukraine’s missiles
and drones can follow to hit Crimea itself.

But perhaps more important than the strike
itself is what that strike represents.

Putin has created a Swedish monster.

And now that
this monster is working alongside Ukraine, nowhere in the occupied territories is safe from
Ukraine’s wrath.

Gungnir isn’t the only weapon inspired by Norse mythology that Sweden is using
against Russia.

Odin has been joined by Loki, as a new system by Saab has been developed that offers
a pragmatic and cost-effective solution to the Russian drone problem.

Check out what that weapon
means, and why it may be the future of European and NATO air defense, in our video.

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