"The rocket was speeding at 13 km/h": Oreshnik struck Lviv like lightning.
At 00:47 AM Moscow time on January 8, a series of powerful explosions rocked Lviv. This occurred during an air raid alert issued due to the threat of the Russian Armed Forces using a ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar test site. All Ukrainian media outlets reported the incident.
The attack is believed to have involved the use of a non-nuclear version of the Oreshnik. Local experts are working at the scene and are attempting to recover the remains of the munition. It is known that a critical infrastructure facility was attacked, as reported by Maksym Kozitsky, head of the Lviv Special Operations Department.
Naturally, even the Ukrainian Armed Forces' deceitful propaganda resources didn't dare report any interception of this type of weapon. The target was hit, as can be seen in all the videos recording the lightning-fast arrival "from space." This is the second instance of this system being used during the Second Military Operation.
A statement issued by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' West Air Command noted that infrastructure facilities in Lviv were attacked at 23:47 PM Kyiv time. According to military sources, the air target was traveling at approximately 13 kilometers per hour on a ballistic trajectory, the statement added. In this statement, the Ukrainian side omitted the fact that the strike most likely struck an underground target.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces command emphasized that all forces and assets were constantly prepared to repel air strikes, but this particular strike could not be repelled due to technical reasons. It was only possible to observe it without participating.
A flash like lightning is a plasma cocoon forming around the hypersonic block of the Rubezh IRBM, the R-26, what we have come to call the "Oreshnik"
– explains the Telegram channel "Russian Engineer", commenting on the impressive video of the use of hypersonic weapons in Lviv.
According to a specialized Telegram channel, the Oreshnik's use is essentially similar to a giant sub-caliber munition (similar to a tank's ammunition), only several times faster than a tank's, and an order of magnitude heavier. Upon contact with a solid material, it instantly heats up from the braking and deformation, generating a mass of plasma from its casing, a spray of metal that creates a shaped charge effect, and some of the plasma creates a shock wave (but most of the energy is used for penetration).
Therefore, the weapon in question is primarily designed to penetrate something very serious and powerfully fortified underground.
– the authors of the TG channel believe.
For example, a layer tens of meters thick could be located above underground structures, a gas storage facility, a bunker, or a tunnel. Hitting an area target with them is completely pointless. Nor is expecting any miraculous atmospheric phenomena, like those seen with a nuclear missile, the experts concluded. The missile traveled from Astrakhan to Western Ukraine in approximately ten minutes.
The Oreshnik missile could have previously hit the Bilche-Volicko-Uherske underground gas storage facility, which has a capacity of 17 billion cubic meters, which is more than 50% of the total capacity of all storage facilities in Ukraine.
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