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Yuzhmash
Sounds like the Orc king from ESO.
Zeepers and Paid Neocon trolls: its all fake! It just shows how weak Russia is! He’s on the verge of death! You’re a Putin-puffer!
End this nonsense. If you support this war sell all you have, move to the Ukraine, take up arms, and go for it.
Next Russian ICBM target: the Storm Shadow factory?
ICBMs are designed to travel 6000 miles. What did this travel? 600? Sounds like a modern version of a SCUD, albeit with MIRV capability. And Hussein lobbed plenty of those in the Gulf War and before that in the war with Khomeini. The reaction by Zman is likely another effort at getting the West directly involved. I think Trump and the GOP should demand Biden appear before the nation and announce what US policy is and will be and take questions. If he doesnt do that Trump should demand that we be told who EXACTLY is running the foreign and military policy of the United States.
First we have not given the Ukraine long range missiles. That’s an outright media lie. The ATACMS missiles we gave them have a range of 190 miles. That’s a short range missile.
Next reports are coming out that an ICBM missile was not used in the most recent attack on the Ukraine. Lets see how that pans out.
Don’t be a Nervous Nellie. In the dementia patient we trust.
Russia has unveiled a new weapon system as a warning to Ukraine and the West.
Russia has apparently launched a single RS-26 Rubezh road mobile missile against a target in Dnipro, Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk).
According to Ukrainian authorities, the missile struck an unnamed industrial enterprise.
Dnipro is home to the Pivdenmash (former Yuzhmash) missile production facility.
Analysis of imagery of the attack indicates the RS-26 carried six independent warheads, each in turn deploying several submunitions.
This warhead package is exclusively for conventional attack.
Russia had not been previously assessed to outfit the RS-26 with a warhead of this design.
By unveiling the conventionally armed RS-26, Russia is changing the qualitative nature of the conflict, something promised by President Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine and its Western allies must now evaluate the destructive potential of this weapon, and understand that Russia can deliver this warhead to any target in Ukraine or Europe knowing there is no defense against it.
The RS-26 is produced in Votkinsk. It is assessed that the production of the RS-26, which was halted in 2017, was resumed this past summer. With production rates estimated at 6-8 missiles per month, Russia could have accumulated an arsenal of between 30-40 RS-26 missiles. Although described as an intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-26’s range actually depends on the warhead package. If armed with a single warhead, it can exceed the 5,000 kilometer threshold used to differentiate between intermediate and intercontinental range missiles. The RS-26 did not go into serial production because of this ambiguity; at the time, Russia was a signatory to the INF treaty, which prohibited intermediate range missiles.
It is assessed that the six warhead conventional warhead package used against Dnipro would have made the RS-26 used fall into the intermediate range for classification.
Donald Trump withdrew from the INF treaty in 2019.
If the United States had remained in the treaty, this version of the RS-26 would not have been available for use by Russia.