Not useful against nuclear states when one is a covert or overt nuclear state themselves. No nuclear state is going to wait and see whether an ICBM from a nuclear state is conventional or not.
The War in the Ukraine
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Likely a Yars, if they indeed fired multiple of it to the same target. Not sure if there are silos for the larger ones in Astrakhan.
Video of the impacts
Grouping is impresive considering the precision of Soviet/Russian ICBM's was always cuestioned.
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A second ICBM is in the air and on its way to Ukraine.
Deleted post? Was it a picture of ICBM exhaust trails or something else?
Here's another source:
Maybe they're getting jumpy? If the intention is to intimidate I think it's having the desired effect.
Maybe they're getting jumpy? If the intention is to intimidate I think it's having the desired effect.
plawolf
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Exactly my thought, they took the nuclear warhead off the MIRVs and substituted in 5-6 conventional replacements per MIRV bus and targeted all the MIRVs on the same target.
Looks like the submunitions are all kinetic only with the tiny detonations. Probably tungsten rods or similar, since no one will have dedicated conventional warheads rated for ICBM re-entry speeds, meaning trying to add explosive payloads was very likely to result in self detonate on re-entry.
NATO must have been shitting a brick while watching the ICBM fly to its target after all their nuclear launch alerts went off. Putin was probably in his doomsday bunker just in case.
Short of actually using a nuke, it’s hard to see what else the Russians can do to demonstrate just how serious their warnings are.
Looks like the submunitions are all kinetic only with the tiny detonations. Probably tungsten rods or similar, since no one will have dedicated conventional warheads rated for ICBM re-entry speeds, meaning trying to add explosive payloads was very likely to result in self detonate on re-entry.
NATO must have been shitting a brick while watching the ICBM fly to its target after all their nuclear launch alerts went off. Putin was probably in his doomsday bunker just in case.
Short of actually using a nuke, it’s hard to see what else the Russians can do to demonstrate just how serious their warnings are.
Ever heard of Prompt Global Strike? We are way past that point.
This kind of technology is way more effective for Russia than the US. Russia does not have military bases all over the world.
With this the Russians show they can hit any target, anywhere in the northern hemisphere in minutes without escalating to nuclear use.
I am only surprised it took this long for the Russians to do it. It is a perfect way to either test RS-28 Sarmat, or get rid of the near expiration date missiles, be those the Satan or the Topol. The Russians have likely hundreds of expired ICBMs they can use.
They could use these missiles with over Mach 20 penetrators to blow up underground facilities in Ukraine like their underground gas storage facilities or underground weapons storage. Without gas storage Ukraine will have one damn cold winter.
If millions more move out of Ukraine it will both increase the economic burden on the EU and make it easier to invade and control the rest of Ukraine. Expanding the security buffer around the Russian border and Russia's heartland.
The throw weight of the ICBM is way larger. At speeds over Mach 20 you do not need explosives. Just the kinetic impact is enough to destroy even hardened targets.
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Not posting what's already posted but this footage of warhead arrivals on Dnipropetrovsk isn't posted yet.
Ukrainian POV, looking at a badly damaged Bradley.
The 102nd MR Regiment raised it's flag over Dalnee.
Russians advance towards the flanks of Velikaya Novoselka.
Ukrainian excavator building fortifications in the city of Konstantinovka gets hit by a Lancet.
Ukrainian tank getting hit by multiple FPVs.
Ukrainians with a fresh new Bradley came to evacuate a damaged Bradley only to see that the other Bradley was completely destroyed.
Russian soldier from the Ghost Battalion threw an explosive device into a Ukrainian stronghold. I believe the explosive device to be a TM-62 mine. The stronghold was drone spotted by tracking a Ukrainian soldier going into its entrance.
FAB-1500 lands on Ukrainian positions in the center of Kupyansk.
After examining the footage, there's no Molinya FPV drone involved. Rather a Krasnopol took out a Bradley, and an FPV drone coming to attack the same Bradley, gets to see the Krasnopol hit the Bradley before it too the FPV hit the same Bradley.
Russians report a Neptune antiship missile shot down near Sevastopol.
FPV strikes a Bradley.
Lancet takes out a Ukrainian BM-21 Grad MLRS.
Ukrainian APCs and tanks struck by drones from the Max Krivonos unit, which consists of ex-AFU. The unit serves among the Group Center of forces in the Kurakhovo sector.
Traces of rocket launch near Dnipropetrovsk.
Yuzmash plant in Dnipropetrovsk is reportedly hit. This place has been hit before by Iskanders but apparently that's not enough, with the site full of underground facilities used to make weapons.
Lancet takes out a Pzh-2000 SPG in the Kursk region.
Krasnopol takes out a Ukrainian UAV control point in the Group North area of responsibility.
Kursk region. Damaged Ukrainian vehicles are being destroyed by drones including using Vandals to prevent evacuation and repair.
Hyacinths of the 200th Artillery Brigade takes out a Ukrainian position.
Hyacinth-B takes out a Ukrainian position in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
Ukrainian mortar site in the Kharkhiv region taken out by FPV.
Akasya SPG working on Ukrainian positions.
Ukrainian POV, looking at a badly damaged Bradley.
The 102nd MR Regiment raised it's flag over Dalnee.
Russians advance towards the flanks of Velikaya Novoselka.
Ukrainian excavator building fortifications in the city of Konstantinovka gets hit by a Lancet.
Ukrainian tank getting hit by multiple FPVs.
Ukrainians with a fresh new Bradley came to evacuate a damaged Bradley only to see that the other Bradley was completely destroyed.
Russian soldier from the Ghost Battalion threw an explosive device into a Ukrainian stronghold. I believe the explosive device to be a TM-62 mine. The stronghold was drone spotted by tracking a Ukrainian soldier going into its entrance.
FAB-1500 lands on Ukrainian positions in the center of Kupyansk.
After examining the footage, there's no Molinya FPV drone involved. Rather a Krasnopol took out a Bradley, and an FPV drone coming to attack the same Bradley, gets to see the Krasnopol hit the Bradley before it too the FPV hit the same Bradley.
Russians report a Neptune antiship missile shot down near Sevastopol.
FPV strikes a Bradley.
Lancet takes out a Ukrainian BM-21 Grad MLRS.
Ukrainian APCs and tanks struck by drones from the Max Krivonos unit, which consists of ex-AFU. The unit serves among the Group Center of forces in the Kurakhovo sector.
Traces of rocket launch near Dnipropetrovsk.
Yuzmash plant in Dnipropetrovsk is reportedly hit. This place has been hit before by Iskanders but apparently that's not enough, with the site full of underground facilities used to make weapons.
Lancet takes out a Pzh-2000 SPG in the Kursk region.
Krasnopol takes out a Ukrainian UAV control point in the Group North area of responsibility.
Kursk region. Damaged Ukrainian vehicles are being destroyed by drones including using Vandals to prevent evacuation and repair.
Hyacinths of the 200th Artillery Brigade takes out a Ukrainian position.
Hyacinth-B takes out a Ukrainian position in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
Ukrainian mortar site in the Kharkhiv region taken out by FPV.
Akasya SPG working on Ukrainian positions.