All about Russia’s new ballistic missile

According to Isna, the American media in an article referring to Russia’s use of a new medium-range ballistic missile that reaches all parts of Europe, reported that this missile is the longest-range weapon that has been used in European conflicts, and it is almost impossible for Ukraine’s defense systems to intercept it.

According to the New York Times, a Ukrainian weapons factory in Dnipro was recently targeted by a new Russian medium-range missile called Orshnik, an attack that Ukraine and its Western allies are still debating about its strategic impact.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced this missile as an example of Russia’s technological capability despite severe economic sanctions from the West, and experts say that Orshanik is capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Western experts still do not know what kind of explosives Russia used in this attack, and some believe that there may have been no explosives at all.

The Pentagon says Orshnik is a modified version of Russia’s RS-26-Robezh missile, an intercontinental ballistic missile that has been tested since 2011. However, the published images of this missile show that the diameter of the Orshanik missile is shorter than that of the Robej, and it is probably designed to cover shorter distances. This missile has the ability to fly up to about 5500 km, which is enough to reach almost all parts of Europe.

Although the missile is not an ICBM in terms of operational range, it is the longest-range weapon ever used in a conflict in Europe, said Nick Brown, an analyst at UK-based defense intelligence firm Janes.

Ukrainian authorities have said that Orshnik was carrying 6 warheads, each of which had 6 mini-munitions. Although no casualties were reported in the attack, a Ukrainian security official told The Associated Press on Sunday that heavy damage had been done to the city’s infrastructure.

The Orshnik missile, which was sent into the atmosphere and then descends at high speed towards its target using gravity, has made it difficult for air defense systems to intercept and if its small munitions are released, according to Western military experts, it will neutralize It is almost impossible.

According to the American media, the only way to intercept these missiles is while they are still moving outside the Earth’s atmosphere, but this requires a type of defense system that Ukraine does not have.

Western analysts told The New York Times that the missile likely carried no explosives and that the damage to a Ukrainian weapons factory was caused by its high speed. “Frankly, even unexploded warheads do a lot of damage when hit at that rate,” says the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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