Defect in Oreshnik’s Soviet-Era Guidance System Causes Serious Accuracy Issues – Report
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Putin's Oreshnik is considered a hypersonic miracle weapon in the Ukraine war. However, old Soviet technology reduces the power: the rocket is probably impervious.
Defect in Oreshnik’s Soviet-Era Guidance System Causes Serious Accuracy Issues – Report
Shortly after the unveiling of the Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile in 2024, President Vladimir Putin boasted that the medium-range weapon was a state-of-the-art Russian creation, not an upgrade of a Soviet-era system.
A new investigation carried out by Dallas Analytics claims that the Russian missile Oresnik is facing a serious blockage in production, linked to the older guiding components of the Soviet era. Internal documents that have entered press possession suggest that producers cannot properly calibrate key gyroscopic systems, which could cause the missiles to miss targets by tens of kilometers. ISW claims that Russia could have only one operational Ore…
The Russian military now has only one medium-range hypersonic missile, the Oreshnik, at its disposal, according to American analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), citing information from the Ukrainian analytical group Dallas Analytics. The group said that after the first deployment of the weapon on the Dnipro, the Russians had four Oreshniks manufactured, but three of them have already been deployed.
According to analysts, Russia only has a operational Oreshnik missile.
Despite technical and logistical difficulties, the Russian Federation will continue to try to produce these missiles, and the experts confirm.
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