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Russia uses Zircon hypersonic missile in Ukraine for first time, researchers say
Reuters ^ | 12 February 2024 | Reuters

Posted on 02/12/2024 4:46:45 PM PST by MeganC

Feb 12 (Reuters) - A preliminary analysis concluded that Russia hit Kyiv last week with the hypersonic Zircon missile, its first use in the nearly two-year-old war, the head of a Kyiv research institute said on Monday, presenting a new challenge to Ukraine's air defences. Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific-Research Institute for Forensic Examinations, said on his Telegram channel that his institute completed a preliminary analysis of missile fragments from a Russian attack on Feb. 7.

He included a video of alleged missile wreckage showing specific markings. "In this case, we see elements that are characteristic of the 3M22 Zircon missile. Parts and fragments of the engine and steering mechanisms have specific markings," he wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: putinbotinfestation; putinsbrownnosers; russia; terrorism; ukraine; zircon
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Russia spends billions developing a new missile and the first time they use it the thing misfires and hits an apartment building. Idiots.
1 posted on 02/12/2024 4:46:45 PM PST by MeganC
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To: MeganC

At least it’s not a Satan II.


2 posted on 02/12/2024 4:48:09 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: All

At least it’s a cheap Zirconium model and not the Real Diamond level.


3 posted on 02/12/2024 4:49:08 PM PST by BipolarBob (One flew East and one flew West . . .)
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To: MeganC
Who cares? We have millions of illegal aliens in our country. Huge black underclass crime wave. Inflation through the roof.

Why don't you people stop worrying about Russia for a change and worry about the clowns destroying this country in D.C.

4 posted on 02/12/2024 4:49:48 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: MeganC

Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?


5 posted on 02/12/2024 4:49:50 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: MeganC

I thought Ukraine was already shooting them down with 97 percent accuracy?


6 posted on 02/12/2024 4:53:10 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: MeganC

Russians doing what Russians do best — kill fellow Slavic people.


7 posted on 02/12/2024 4:57:10 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: McGruff
I thought Ukraine was already shooting them down with 97 percent accuracy?

Ukraine already won, this is just them doing a training exercise for the middle-aged men and women who are needed to serve < / S >

8 posted on 02/12/2024 4:57:35 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: MeganC

I’m sure the Ukes are laughing right along with you. Russian hypersonic missiles, What, DC and Kiev Worry? You’re not real informed about what this escalation means, are you? By the way, along with their own hypersonic missiles, I wonder how many of these the “idiots” have given Iran and the NORKS?


9 posted on 02/12/2024 4:57:36 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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10 posted on 02/12/2024 4:58:09 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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“You’re not real informed about what this escalation means, are you?”

It means Russia used a horribly expensive missile against someone’s apartment. I am certain it was a very strategic apartment if that makes you feel any better.


11 posted on 02/12/2024 5:02:26 PM PST by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: MeganC
Zircon or Zircon encrusted?
12 posted on 02/12/2024 5:09:21 PM PST by xoxox
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To: MeganC

Oh boy!

Mystery weapons!

Last time the USSR were the suckers on that sorta stuff... Our turn!

We oughta send Ukraine a few more tens of billions of unaccountable dollars,

or at the very LEAST another 2x the USMC’s annual budget.

C’mon! Let’s do it for the people who gleefully wiped out the Jews!

Yay Ukraine!


13 posted on 02/12/2024 5:10:41 PM PST by golux
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To: MeganC

If the description of what it hit comes from a Ukraine source we can assume it is a lie or else the building wasn’t really an apartment building.


14 posted on 02/12/2024 5:15:26 PM PST by dforest
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Great username, and I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking similar thoughts.

And FWLIW, I have 2-3 rolled up milspec, milsurp, woodland camo ponchos in my coat closet.

I think they qualify as real . . .


15 posted on 02/12/2024 5:16:47 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ifinnegan
No one has killed more Slavic people than we have.

Sending Ukraine more money will only result in more Ukrainian deaths and more lost territory.

But, all you, your fellow Zeepers and Lindsey Graham is Russian deaths, which ironically also qualify as Slavic deaths.

16 posted on 02/12/2024 5:20:43 PM PST by Kazan
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To: MeganC

In what specific area on rocket propulsion is your PhD?

I recall those “idiots” at NASA making errors too.
Errors on the Manhattan Project as well.
Idiots.


17 posted on 02/12/2024 5:32:06 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MeganC

And a nuke warhead won’t have to be close.


18 posted on 02/12/2024 6:15:43 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: xoxox

I see what you did there.


19 posted on 02/12/2024 6:18:01 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Kazan

“ No one has killed more Slavic people than we have.”

Oh yeah.

That Stalin didn’t kill 40 million.


20 posted on 02/12/2024 6:35:22 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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