Russian President Vladimir Putin for the second time in less than a week, praised the ‘Oreshnik’ (‘Hazel Tree’) missile during a CSTO summit in Astana on Thursday, highlighting its destructive power akin to a nuclear weapon.
Putin claimed it could obliterate everything at the impact site but insisted it would not carry a nuclear warhead or cause radioactive fallout.
Ukraine reported that the Oreshnik fired on November 21 reached speeds of 13,600 kph (8,450 mph) but carried dummy warheads, not live explosives.
This marks another significant development in Russia's missile program amid ongoing tensions.
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Putin claimed it could obliterate everything at the impact site but insisted it would not carry a nuclear warhead or cause radioactive fallout.
Ukraine reported that the Oreshnik fired on November 21 reached speeds of 13,600 kph (8,450 mph) but carried dummy warheads, not live explosives.
This marks another significant development in Russia's missile program amid ongoing tensions.
#Russia #Putin
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00:00Of course, there are no analogues of nutcrackers in the world, and I think that such analogues will not appear soon.
00:12Let me remind you once again, I remind you as a nutcracker at work, as you asked.
00:19Dozens of combat units, self-propelled units, attack the target at a speed of 10 Mach, which is about 3 km per second.
00:31The temperature of the hitting elements reaches 4000 degrees. If my memory serves me correctly, the temperature on the surface of the Sun is 5.5-6 degrees.
00:45Therefore, everything that is in the epicenter of the explosion is divided into elementary particles, turning into dust.
00:56The missile strikes even highly protected and located at great depth objects.
01:07According to military and technical experts, in the event of a massive and large-scale use of these missiles, that is, several nutcrackers at once in one strike,
01:22the power of this strike will be comparable to the use of nuclear weapons.
01:30Although a weapon of mass destruction, a nutcracker, of course, is not.
01:36Firstly, because, and this is confirmed by the test on November 21, this weapon is high-precision.
01:48And secondly, and this is the most important, there is no nuclear charge here, which means that there will be no nuclear contamination after it is detected.
01:58Today, we have several ready-to-use products of this kind.
02:05And, of course, as has already been said, we will respond to the continuing strikes on the territory of Russia by large-scale missiles of Western production,
02:18including a possible continuation of the nutcracker test in combat conditions, as it was done on November 21.