Ukrainian War Developments

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RottenPanzer

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This got me thinking
What makes Russian use of Kinzhal special?
Technically speaking most Ballistic Missiles are hypersonic then what makes Kinzhal special besides being air-launch based ballistic missile?
 

sheogorath

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GDP didn't tell the whole story. Ukraine inherited a lot of infrastructures built during the USSR years, so the quality of life was probably quite a bit higher than countries with similar GDP per capita but lower infrastructure stock.

The Russian invasion obviously changed that


Pretty sure the Ukranian governments following independece did that all on their own. Ukraine has been stuck on a permanent "Wild 90's" state since day 1, dilapidating almost all the infraestructure and industries the USSR left them with, barely able to produce anything more than late 80's/early 90's tech
 

sheogorath

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This got me thinking
What makes Russian use of Kinzhal special?
Technically speaking most Ballistic Missiles are hypersonic then what makes Kinzhal special besides being air-launch based ballistic missile?
It can maneouver. Remember it's role as an anti-ship missile.

On that note, seems the "farm" they hit with Kinzhal was actually an old soviet nuclear weapons storage facility, which means the strike probably served both to get rid of an ammo depot and as a message to NATO about how they can strike their nuclear weapons storages

 

Temstar

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It can maneouver. Remember it's role as an anti-ship missile.

On that note, seems the "farm" they hit with Kinzhal was actually an old soviet nuclear weapons storage facility, which means the strike probably served both to get rid of an ammo depot and as a message to NATO about how they can strike their nuclear weapons storages

Or it's to get rid of a time sensitive target, hence the need for hypersonics.
Time sensitive target may not be something, it may be someone... If it's not time sensitive there are plenty of other ground penetrating weapons available to the Russians.
 
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