Loading ...Russia’s Secretive Hypersonic, Nuclear-Ready Oreshnik Missiles Go Operational In Belarus
Belarus has announced that Russia’s Oreshnik intermediate-range nuclear capable ballistic missile system has been deployed on its territory, though details and specifications – including range – of the projectile remain secretive.
On Tuesday, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense released a video it claims shows the Oreshnik system being deployed inside the country. It featured Russian troops and technicians in a ceremonial flag-raising while stationed in Belarus, along with a convoy of vehicles moving into a field-based firing position before being concealed under camouflage netting.
In a matter of less than a year, Russian scientific know-how came up with four bangers:
1. Oreshnik: hypersonic missile, already tested in the Ukraine battleground.
2. Burevestnik: Or “Stormbringer”, with that nice Deep Purple ring. Nuclear cruise missile with unlimited range.
3. Poseidon: nuclear-powered torpedo, capable of loitering underwater, undetected, for unlimited time; then, at a command, strikes enemy coasts with a nuclear payload, provoking a radioactive tsunami. Largely exceeds the destructive power of the Sarmat, Russia’s largest ICBM.
4. Khabarovsk: nuclear sub. Call him The Messenger of Doom: capable of delivering at least 6 Doomsday-enabling Poseidons.
Well all I can say is thank God nuclear bombs delivered by the tip of a missile are mythology rather than fact. We are best advised to keep that thought close to our hearts lest the threats scare us shitless believing anything so absurd really exists. What both Russia and the US do have however are tens of thousands of conventional bombs on the tips of ICBM’s so I would not want to downplay the risk completely. An exchange of such targetting missiles would still be deadly, possibly even catastrophic. But they will not result in mushroon clouds.