Posted on 02/06/2025 1:20:48 PM PST by marcusmaximus
A terror weapon becomes less terrifying when it doesn’t work.
After warning U.S. officials of its intention to launch, Russia lobbed a mysterious new ballistic missile—initially mistaken for a nuclear-capable ICBM—at the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine on the morning of Nov. 21, damaging buildings and injuring dozens of people.
The mystery weapon turned out to be a variant of Russia’s RS-26, a 40-ton, solid-fueled missile with six independent reentry vehicles. Its name, Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin announced shortly after the strike, is “Oreshnik.” That’s Russian for “hazelnut tree.”
Three months later on Thursday morning, the Russians reportedly launched another Oreshnik—this one apparently targeting Kyiv. Air raid sirens wailed. City residents scrambled for shelter. But then … nothing. No scream of incoming reentry vehicles. No thunderous impacts as the non-explosive vehicles slammed into the ground.
According to Kirill Sazonov, a Ukrainian war correspondent, the Oreshnik “did not fly far.” It reportedly malfunctioned and exploded—on Russian soil.
Everyone knew an attack might be coming. A week after the first Oreshnik strike, Putin threatened to fire additional Oreshniks—and specifically warned he’d target “decision-making centers” in Kyiv, where Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky, top officials and commanders and their staffs work.
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There’s nothing like Russia building nuclear capable ballistic missiles that can’t make it out of their own territory. Apparently, an empty bottle of Popov vodka was left inside the missile in an important place.
I know how they feel. I’ve had some of my rockets do the same thing.
Does Russia get their mussiles from the same place Hezbollah gets their pagers?
Maybe it would have worked if they called it the Satan-3 instead of the Hazelnut Tree.
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This USAID Propaganda Article Spammed by a Zeeper - again...
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
Yet more spam no one cares about
Azzhole
What Ben Stiller doink?
The Russians need to stop buying their missile parts from ACME corporation.
“According to Kirill Sazonov, a Ukrainian war correspondent”
and USAID recipient.
The Putin fans are the real annoyance here. Marcusmaximus is excellent
Our GIs care and anyone interested in our national security cares.
A lot of pro-Russians keep on mentioning that particular missile. So “no one cares about...” is obviously not correct.
Its like calling a mention of Elon’s Starship as “no one cares...”.
All mentions of the Oreshnik missile seem to have a following.
So what is “spam”? a meaningless putdown?
“Oreshnik” That’s Russian for “hazelnut tree.”
That is an interesting name for a missile, coming from Putin:
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Loutchansky’s name surfaced again last year, when the Washington Post revealed that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s two brothers, Tony Rodham and Hugh Rodham, were involved in a $118 million scheme to grow and export hazelnuts in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Their partner in the venture was Aslan Abashidze, who said his financial adviser was Loutchansky. Abashidze is a reputed member of a Russian organized crime family.
The Rodham brothers at first balked and then agreed to national security adviser Sandy Berger’s request that they terminate their venture....
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