By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 17:41:29 | Updated at 2024-11-22 23:51:38
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Russia’s New Ballistic Missile Reached Mach 11 as it Plunged Back to Earth, Says Ukraine Military
Breitbart ^ | 11/22/2024 | Oliver JJ Lane
Posted on 11/22/2024 9:36:12 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Ukraine says the “experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile” fired at the city of Dnipro on Thursday carried 36 “submunitions” and was travelling at Mach 11 as it struck.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has published new claims about the new kind of ballistic missile that struck the central city of Dnipro in the early hours of Thursday morning. A statement said the missile, which left earth’s atmosphere in a ballistic arc after being launched from Russia’s Astrakhan region made the approximately 500 miles to the city in 15 minutes.
The missile had six re-entry vehicles, each of which carried a further six “submunitions” to the ground which were aimed at an industrial facility at the city, a feature common to ballistic missiles which use one large launch to deliver a larger number of ‘multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles’. These expensive and complex weapons are designed to carry nuclear warheads, but can be fitted with conventional warheads, as in this case.
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Yes, ballistic warheads come down really really fast. That’s the point. This is nothing new.
2 posted on 11/22/2024 9:38:10 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: ChicagoConservative27
3 posted on 11/22/2024 9:38:47 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Mach 11 is 8,450 miles per hour.
500 miles in 15 minutes is 2000 mph...........
4 posted on 11/22/2024 9:40:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: ChicagoConservative27
It also hit what it was aimed at. That level of accuracy is a big step up for the Russians.
5 posted on 11/22/2024 9:40:28 AM PST by MMusson ( )
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