The final part of this week in the Ukrainian war has been marked by the launch by a new missile which had not been used until now in the more than two and a half years of armed conflict.
At first, However, both the United States and Russia reported that the aforementioned weapons had not been used.
Subsequently, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, stated that (in response to the Western missiles used by kyiv against Russian territory) The attack on Ukraine was carried out with a new hypersonic missile that has been named Oreshnik.
Putin himself, during a meeting with the Russian military leadership, explained that the Oreshnik missile “It is not a strategic weapon”, nor is it “an intercontinental ballistic missile”nor “a weapon of mass destruction, because It is highly precise.”
Furthermore, the Russian president has highlighted that the production of this hypersonic missile has not been based on any work to update old systems, but rather This is a totally new weapon.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that the launch of the Oreshnik can become, paradoxically, a gift for Ukraine. Although the missile was practically reduced to fragments After the impact, the ukrainian expertstogether with international specialists, can now have access first hand to elements that help understand the technology behind this new weaponry.
The Ukrainian army itself has expressed that These remains of the Oreshnik can be of great value to study possible technological innovationsmaterials and other components of interest for the hypersonic missile.
