"VIVA KAMALA & NANZI!"
"SLAVA UKRAINI!"
"LONG LIVE ZELVIS & FJB!"
Pretty sure those are launches played in reverse, not impacts of incoming rockets.
He both fears and welcomes a Trumpian solution to the war.
This is positioning for negotiations.
Pavel Podvig, director of the Russian Nuclear Forces Project, stressed that this kind of a strike ‘might have a value as a signal’.He wrote in a thread on X that one must be ‘skeptical and cautious’ about the claims, adding: ‘Regarding the “intercontinental” claim, the distance from Kapustin Yar to Dnipro is about 800 km. It is not an intercontinental range.’
He added later: ‘Using these kinds of missiles, whether RS-26 or a true ICBM, in a conventional role does not make a lot of sense because of their relatively low accuracy and high cost. But this kind of a strike might have a value as a signal.’
"SLAVA UKRAINI!"
"LONG LIVE ZELVIS & FJB!"
I understand these missles have four harheads each. I counted six clusters of four.
More like six missles..
good
Fourth word in the article — “allegedly.”
That’s what it looks like in at least a segment or two of the video.
Putin was sending a message as follows:
“This is how we deliver nukes but this one was not a nuke.”
First off they are Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles. Not ICBM’s. Putin would have violated some treaty and agreements if he fired off ICBMs. These IRBM’s are just an improvement on previous missiles. They can go higher, and therefor end up traveling faster as they plunge to the target. They can go farther than previous IRBM’s but not enough to put them in the ICBM category.
Second, they have no explosive in the warhead. They are traveling so fast that they pierce a building or the ground without any explosion. As the warhead meets denser material it slows down and the kinetic energy from the speed of the warhead is transferred to the surrounding material. That is where the damage occurs, underground.
I’ve explained this at least twice, but I speak to deaf ears I guess.
BTW, any of you ‘experts’ know where the other 5 missiles landed ?