In response to the NATO decision to allow direct participation of US, British and French soldiers in the war against #Russia, Moscow launched a new, state-of-the-art ballistic missile at Dnipropetrovsk yesterday.
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The strike, which hit an aerospace manufacturing plant used by the Ukrainian military, was done with an Oreshnik hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile.
The Oreshnik is an MIRV missile, which means it carries multiple seperate warheads that can independently strike different targets. While the Dnipropetrovsk strike was done with a fully conventional payload, each individual MIRV warhead can be replaced with a seperate nuclear ordnance instead, which would make any single missile a veritable shrapnel of nuclear explosives.
As the Oreshnik is a hypersonic missile with a top speed of Mach 10 or 12,300 km/h, there is basically no defence system in the NATO arsenal capable of reliably intercepting it.
