Russia removing nuclear warheads from missiles, firing at Ukraine, UK says

Reuters, via the Jerusalem Post ^ | November 26, 2022 | Reuters Staff Report

[Timber Rattler]

Russia is likely removing nuclear warheads from aging nuclear cruise missiles and firing unarmed munitions at Ukraine, Britain's military intelligence said on Saturday.

The defense ministry said open source imagery shows wreckage of an air-launched cruise missile fired at Ukraine which seem to have been designed in the 1980s as a nuclear delivery system, adding that ballast was probably being substituted for the warheads.

Such a system will still produce damage through the missile's kinetic energy and unspent fuel. However, it is unlikely to achieve reliable effects against intended targets, the ministry added in its daily intelligence update posted on Twitter.

"Whatever Russia's intent, this improvisation highlights the level of depletion in Russia's stock of long-range missiles," the ministry said.

[Timber Rattler]

Scraping the bottom of the barrel...

[Libloather]

They don’t go boom? Saving the planet. Follow the science.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

al Reuters, the fake news propaganda-porn capital of the world.

[House Atreides]

Mama always said ‘waste not, want not’. Just sayin’.

[canuck_conservative]

and you know all about Russia’s missiles because .... ??

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You know all about them because of your addiction to fake news porn.

[DarthVader]

Not likely to be reported as all nuke things are highly classified.

[canuck_conservative]

you didn’t answer the question

[escapefromboston]

Well at least they are taking the nuclear warheads off. So that’s nice of them

[Dilbert56]

Decoys to swamp air defenses.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don’t answer questions from avatars with the IQ of a potato.

[Delta 21]

It would be less work just to nuke em.

[PIF]

This has been going on for over a week now with the KH-55 and KH-101s. They make good decoys and cause damage when they impact.

The larger questions are: did they have nuke warheads in the first place, and if they did, what happened to them?

[DesertRhino]

“Such a system will still produce damage through the missile’s kinetic energy and unspent fuel. However, it is unlikely to achieve reliable effects against intended targets, the ministry added in its daily intelligence update posted on Twitter.”

We do the same exact thing. Tomahawks are nuke capable and are used on other targets. And we have weapons that carry an extremely small, or even NO warhead. It indicates they are using minimum levels needed to achieve the goal. They are quite capable of fitting a conventional warhead.

[Navy Patriot]

...Britain's military intelligence said on Saturday.

That's all we need to know.

[Mariner]

Stupid people believe this.

[DesertRhino]

” Britain’s military intelligence said on Saturday.”

They also said Trump was a Russian spy.

[Navy Patriot]

You and I think alike.

[PGR88]

Its not up to E.Plur to tell us what he knows about Russian missiles.

The war-propaganda dealer, Reuters, made the claim. How do they possibly know such closely held secrets about Russia’s nuclear missiles?

You promote this crap - so its really your responsibility to tell us what you know about it.

[canuck_conservative]

Its not up to E.Plur to tell us what he knows about Russian missiles

yes it his, he called it false, he needs to show why

How do they possibly know such closely held secrets about Russia’s nuclear missiles?

British military has lots of sources inside Russia ... plus, Ukraine is probably closely examining all the reamins of the missiles that hit ... you do realize that a lot of a conventional missile doesn't get destroyed, right?