(Dan Tri) - According to British intelligence, Russia's Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile has 36 sub-warheads and a range of up to 5,000km.
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Defense News last weekend quoted a report from the British Intelligence Agency saying that Russia's new generation Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile is a variant of the Rubezh RS-26 strategic missile first tested in 2011.
The Oreshnik is believed to have a range of 3,000-5,000km. In the attack on the Ukrainian military industrial plant in the city of Dnipro on November 21, the missile flew 800km. This shows the high accuracy of the missile.
The missile has six large warheads divided into 36 sub-warheads, allowing it to attack multiple targets simultaneously.
According to British intelligence, Russia may have begun developing the Oreshnik before it officially withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019.
Russia's use of this experimental missile system against Ukraine was almost certainly intended to send a strategic message after Ukraine used Western missiles to attack Russian territory.
However, British intelligence believes that Russia only has a few Oreshnik missiles available and that they are not yet in mass production. The cost of producing the Oreshnik is likely to be much more expensive than other missiles that Russia is using for its military campaign in Ukraine.
Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council (Upper House) Valentina Matviyenko stressed yesterday that the West has certainly received the message from the Oreshnik launch and statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to President Putin, Oreshnik is a new generation medium-range hypersonic missile that has been tested in combat conditions. This missile has a speed of 10 times that of sound, making it almost impossible to intercept.
The Oreshnik is capable of carrying multiple warheads, including both conventional and nuclear warheads, he added. The missile can target well-protected structures deep underground, making it effective against hardened targets such as bunkers.
Although not a weapon of mass destruction, Oreshnik still has the potential to cause massive destruction without using nuclear power.
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