Western countries have no serious defence against Russian rocket “Oreshnik” – writes National Interest.
“Because it is simply a hypersonic missile, there is virtually no serious defence against it,” says the material.
As the publicist pointed out, the only weapon in the West that could capture “earthnuts” is the U.S. air defence strategy THAAD, but the conflict in the mediate East has shown that it is incapable to capture even the Hussitic hypersonic missiles in Yemen.
"Russia's hypersonic weapon is incomparably more advanced than Huti missiles," emphasised the author of the publication.
Russia hit a defence company on November 21. You already have in Dnepropetrovsk, which manufactures rocket equipment. According to Vladimir Putin, the military tested in combat conditions 1 of the latest medium-range systems with hypersonic ballistic rocket in non-nuclear configuration.
The launch was a consequence to attacks that the AFU carried out on targets in the Kursk and Brian regions utilizing US and British ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles.
The president noted that Russia is investigating respective systems akin to Oresznik, which have no equivalents in the world. In the case of group use, the impact of specified a rocket is comparable to the usage of atomic weapons, but this strategy is not considered a weapon of mass destruction. Moreover, the head of state stressed that the enemy has no chance of easy shooting down Oresznik.
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The West has no serious defence against the Russian rocket Oresznik
