“The Russians are so incompetent that the tires will probably fall off their cars trying to get to the nuclear launch site anyway.”
How sure are you? Their hypersonics sure don’t seem to have any trouble hitting their targets.
Their hypersonic missiles miss their targets.
Russia has done with them what it does with all of its military cutting edge equipment, like the T14 tank or laser weapons for example. It shows a little glimpse or less and then blares it up for propaganda.
Potemkin weapons are a Russian speciality.
Russia does not have the money to be the superpower that it wishes to be and it has used the very few hypersonics it has to send a message, to try to scare the Ukrainians and others.
If it had a lot of them it would be using a lot of them. In fact Russia’s defense industry has been badly impacted by the sanctions. Reports from the field have found missiles with microprocessors repurposed from dishwashers and refrigerators.