STORY: :: Putin proposes missile duel with US to show Russian Oreshnik missiles can overcome any protection system
:: December 19, 2024
:: Moscow, Russia
:: Vladimir Putin, Russian president
:: “There isn’t any chance of taking pictures down these Oreshnik missiles. Well, if the Western consultants you point out consider that they are often shot down, we suggest to them – and to these within the West and the United States who pay them for his or her analyzes – to conduct some type of technological experiment, a high-tech duel of the twenty first century. Let them title some object, say, in Kiev, focus all their air protection and missile protection forces there, and we are going to hit it with Oreshnik and we’ll see what occurs. Are we prepared for this an experiment? Is the opposite facet prepared?”
Addressing Western skepticism in regards to the Oreshnik, Putin steered that each side select a chosen goal to guard from U.S. missiles.
Putin additionally stated that the Oreshnik is a contemporary weapon, though it’s based mostly on earlier Russian design developments.
Russia first fired the Oreshnik missile on the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro on November 21, in what Putin launched as a response to Ukraine’s first use of US ATACM ballistic missiles and British Storm Shadows to strike the territory Russian with Western permission.
