They look similar because it's atmospheric re-entry of high speed projectiles, but to me there are some key differences. Iran made use of a large amount of missiles on October 1st, with no submunitions, and performed extensive manoeuvres beforehand, typical of Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicles. This Russian strike had six submunitions per re-entry event, with six re-entry events in total, and it was impossible to visualise if there were any manoeuvres beforehand with the clouds. This Russian strike could be 1 missile with six seperate Re-entry Vehicles, that then have six submunitions each, or 6 missiles with one Re-entry Vehicle each, that then has six submunitions. The Iranian equivalent to that, in terms of deploying submunitions, would be the Khorramshahr-4 IRBM, which wasn't used on October 1st from the publicly available evidence.
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Give some of these missiles to Iran and Yemen Mr Putin, just a few missiles
Video of Putin's full 7:30 speech, with English translation from RT News, hosted on Reddit
Reddit source is now deleted.
Most interesting part is Putin saying that Russia, in essence, reserves the right to hit military targets of the countries whose long range weapons are used to strike Russia.
I would upload a mirror link on another website, but my Reddit client does not allow me to download Reddit videos with sound for some reason. If anyone else can, feel free to post it.
~~Damnit video got deleted, time to try find it again.~~
That's what atmospheric re-entry at speeds of between 2.5-3 kilometres per second looks like, that's the speed of the weapon claimed by Putin. Mach 10, 10 times the speed of sound.
Yeah it looks accurate based on what I've seen from other sources. The Oreshnik MRBM or IRBM is a new weapon, one that would've been illegal under the INF treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2018 and 2019. That's probably why Putin mentioned it. Oreshnik, which I'd guess is an evolution of the RS-26, gives Russia Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) capabilities throughout Europe and Asia. This changes the game with regards to escaltion between NATO in Europe, and Russia.
I just hope NATO gets the message...
I just love how they blame "Western inaction" for getting hit my the ICBM. Hitting Russia with western weapons, in other words aggressive Western actions, is what got you here in the first place!
low effort joke
"Shoigu, Gerasimov, where’s my ~~ammo~~ nuclear warheads"
Yeah, if it's striking an underground bunker or hardened asset you'll see this kind of thing before the nuclear blast. If it's an air burst explosion thousands of metres in the sky , you won't even see this, you'll just see the nuclear blast...
It's terrifying.
Now is this over the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and co, over Russia's use of a new weapon in Ukraine, or both?
The reaction of the Ukrainian media has been wild. I'll just post two screenshots from the Kyiv Post.
I think it was deleted by the user who posted it, probably because of the flame wars in the comments. A pro Ukraine troll came in talking about a strategic defeat for Russia.