Posted on 04/24/2022 8:32:08 PM PDT by libh8er
Putin has deployed Iskander-M mobile battlefield missile launchers within 40 miles of the Ukrainian border, Ukraine's military has said.
The mobile system's two ballistic missiles have a range of up to 300 miles and can carry conventional or nuclear warheads.
'Then enemy has increased the number of troops in the Belgorod region by transferring and concentrating additional units,' the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in its daily morning update.
According to available information, Iskander-M launchers have been deployed 60 km from the border with Ukraine,' it said, without providing more detail on the location of the systems.
Belgorod is a city and the administrative centre of Russia's Belgorod region, north of the border with Ukraine.
The Iskander, a mobile ballistic missile system codenamed SS-26 Stone by NATO, replaced the Soviet Scud missile.
First used in combat in 2008 in Georgia, the Iskander is designed to confound missile defences by flying on a low trajectory and manoeuvring in flight to strike targets as far out as 500km with an accuracy of 2-5 metres, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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Finally!
“... can carry conventional or nuclear warheads..”
Exactly.
I dont think anyome can claim to be winning except Rockerfeller amd Soros and those that think like them.
Yes, prevailing winds run west to east. Ukraine is around 800 miles across. The launcers mentioned are about 40 miles from the Ukraine border and can fire as much as 300 miles. Thus if used for nukes, the eastern third of Ukraine might be contaminated, and then it would spread to the western parts of Russia. Would Putin be that self-destructive. I suspect these are important grain and potatoe areas for Russia. On the other hand 2/3 rds of Ukraine might not be much affected.
So is it 40 km or 60 km? More anonymous sources? 🤣
Russia has demanded Israel stop sending arms to Ukraine or else
This is how Gog and Magog get wiped out.
“Any nuclear attack will irradiate all crops in Ukraine for 10,000 years and the fallout will be blown towards Russia.”
Then Japan should be able to grow crops in only 9922 more years. We bombed them twice in 1945 with nukes, and they seem to be doing fine now, even with the extra fallout from a nuclear plant meltdown.
I saw a map that showed winds from Ukraine go south west towards Italy. And then it circles around.
Russia would be dropping fallout on almost all of western Europe if he nuked Ukraine. That would draw NATO directly into the war.
Daily Mail propaganda is always good for a laugh!
nah, nukes aren’t likely, not our civil war
So is it 40 km or 60 km?
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Its 40 miles which is roughly 60km. Its confusing when people mix measurements when talking about the dame thing.
Daily Mail fear porn.
OMG OMG!😱
Their claim is not new, either.
And it’s not like the Ukraine government violated the Minsk accords, at the urging of the Biden administration.
Oh, wait. They did.
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“Shall we play a game?”
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Does not really matter which way the “prevailing winds” take.
What matters is which direction is the wind taking at the time of impact.
Generally speaking, right now the winds are blowing due north to Russia. Later, the temps differentials between the Black Sea and the land will change and the wind might take a southwesterly direction toward Italy or northwest to Europe.
But if the Russians were to launch, I doubt they bother to care which direction the winds go - its just another weapon to them.
Nahhh, biden and milley will stand down to avoid escalation.
Biden is a given. Putin? I wonder if he got an mRNA vaccine, or if the Sputnik-V vaccine also has neurological side effects.
People live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today they grow gardens and food in the fields near by too. Most fission products have half lives measured in hours, days and months. Only 4 have long term half lives and are biologically mobile. Iodine, technium,cesium and strontium are the four problem isotopes. The land area around Chernobyl has full returned to forest with dense growth and wild boar running rampant. People could live their if they were willing too take twice the normal background radiation level of the region. Same for Nevada where the DOD detonated well over 700 nuclear weapons on the surface,near surface(tower shots) and air bursts. People used to travel to Las Vegas to watch the flash and mushroom clouds over the desert. Neither the USA nor the Russians field 5 megaton plus three stage fission fusion fission weapons anymore. Only the Chinese do on their DF5 it’s a city buster and would throw up.bikini atoll levels of fall out of surface bursted but to kill a city you want to airburst at the optimum height for mach stem shockwave development it doubled your radius blast destruction plus allows the heat flash direct line of sight far further than surface bursts would thus incinerating people, trees, buildings and anything else flammable over a ten plus mile wide circle ground burst would dig a crater a mile wide but it’s heat flash and blast would be severely limited. You only ground burst to take out underground structures like silos or bunkers or to crater an airbase so badly you couldn’t just push the dirt back in. A mile wide 300+ foot deep.crater takes a airfield out.for.good. The largest US weapon is 475kt on the D5 tridents. The Russians field SS18 with 800kt and SS25 with 500_800kt there new Satan II which is a NATO codeword not some made up term can carry a single ten to twenty MT warhead its only target is the underground bunkers of the USA leadership and NORAD they probably will field ten of those specifically.to hit Virginia,Colorado,and Nebraska where the leadership bunkers are. The SS18 is NATO code word Satan it used to carry up to thirty 500or warheads or a single 25MT bunkers killer since SALT II the SS18 was down loaded.to ten 500/800kt or a single 20 MT the Russians took.down their SS19s in the 2000s they field road mobile SS24/25s and their newest topols with three to.six MIRVS all are 500 to 800kt or less. The specter of city buster ground bursting and putting up 10000+ REM per hour fall out tails is something from 40 years ago in the 1980s every strategic warhead system now is designed to be either a airburst area killer or a precision first strike silo killer with smaller very accurate warheads to kill hard targets. There simply is not the megaton in ground burst type warheads to do radiation warfare like the 1980s.
If the Russians would not bother to care which direction the winds were going, then the probability of what percentage of the time the winds are going east or northeast wwould determine the likelihood that Putin would hurt Russians as much or more than Ukranians.
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