By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-05 23:47:40 | Updated at 2024-12-22 11:13:37
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Oreshnik Threat: ‘Rods From God’ Are Not As Dangerous As Putin Thinks
Forbes ^ | 2 December 2024 | David Hambling
Posted on 12/05/2024 3:27:42 PM PST by Apparatchik
The reverberations from the Oreshnik ballistic missile strike on Dnipro continue to echo two weeks after the event, mainly because President Putin keeps making public statements about what an effective weapon Oreshnik is. These are duly repeated by the media in Russia and abroad.
The use of an intermediate range ballistic missile with conventional warheads was a world first. Containing no explosive, the thirty-six submunitions inflict damage by kinetic energy, “like a meteorite falling,” as Putin put it. The shower of artificial meteorites looked impressive, but the evidence suggests that it did little actual damage. The strike was more of an impressive firework display than a real threat.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia; War
KEYWORDS: bluff; oreshnik; putler; wunderwaffe
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Looks like Putler’s Wunderwaffe is a dud.
1 posted on 12/05/2024 3:27:42 PM PST by Apparatchik
To: Apparatchik
Containing no explosive, the thirty-six submunitions inflict damage by kinetic energy...
This time they carried no payload as a demonstration.
Next time they won't be empty.
2 posted on 12/05/2024 3:30:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Apparatchik
GTFO FR - globaloid trashbag.
Take the Ukraine shithole with you.
3 posted on 12/05/2024 3:31:05 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
To: Apparatchik
Do these clowns not understand that this was a test with inert warheads? Yes it was a dud, literally. That doesn’t mean you can’t put munitions on them.
To: Apparatchik
You are officially retarded.
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6 posted on 12/05/2024 3:37:50 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
To: Apparatchik
Some dipshit who writes for Forbes thinks he is a weapons expert.
7 posted on 12/05/2024 3:38:07 PM PST by webheart
To: Apparatchik
There was a joke that a burglar broke into a guys home drew a chalk line on the floor told the guy not to cross it and proceeded to assault his wife and family.
When the guy started busting up, the burglar asked: “What is so funny?”
The guy said: “While you were pistol whipping my wife, I stepped over the line and you missed it!”
That is that Forbes writer.
8 posted on 12/05/2024 3:39:29 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
To: Apparatchik
As decreed by...Forbes
Ha
9 posted on 12/05/2024 3:46:33 PM PST by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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