Vladimir Putin’s experimental Oreshnik hypersonic missile, first launched on November 21 at a military facility in Ukraine, is feared to be able to reach any city in Europe in less than 20 minutes. This is reported by the Daily Mail.
These weapons are not as powerful or as fast as Russia’s most feared intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), such as the RS-24 Yars, which can fire multiple individual nuclear warheads anywhere in the United States after traveling through space at 19,000 miles per hour. , but they also have impressive properties, the publication notes.
According to Russian military sources, the Oreshnik is a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 10 times the speed of sound – or about 7,600 miles per hour – with a range of about 5,000 kilometers or 3,100 miles, the newspaper writes.
“If the missile were launched from the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan region of southern Russia, as was the case during the attack on Ukraine, Putin could still easily hit any target in Europe or the United Kingdom without recourse. to their most powerful weapons. “Targets in London had less than 20 minutes to ignite, while those in Berlin had less than 15 minutes before impact.” – highlights the Daily Mail.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces Air Force said on Thursday that Russian forces attacked a military facility in Dnepropetrovsk with an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as CCTV cameras captured the moment several warheads hit the city. Later the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin reported that the attack was carried out by the Oreshnik system, a new medium-range ballistic missile in response to kyiv’s use of British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to hit targets in Russia’s Kursk region.
how it was transmitted EADailyThe Oreshnik system is capable of hitting targets throughout Europe, which distinguishes it from other types of long-range precision weapons. This was stated in a meeting with leaders of the Ministry of Defense, representatives of the military-industrial complex and developers of missile systems, held by Russian President Vladimir Putin, commander of the Strategic Missile Forces. Sergei Karakaev.
