Re: We’ve Reached Peak Zelensky. Now What? - a correction to claims about hypersonic missiles Archived Message
Posted by John Monro on December 29, 2022, 6:22 pm, in reply to "We’ve Reached Peak Zelensky. Now What?"
One thing here needs correcting and that's Russia's use of hypersonic missiles. This has been mentioned on the Duran, and I'd agree - only one hypersonic missile is nearly certainly known to have been used, and that was the attack on the recruiting centre in western Ukraine killing many foreign volunteer combatants, and presumably a number of foreign officers They may have used them elsewhere, but they have not admitted this. The vast majority of the assaults on Ukraine's infrastructure has been by conventional cruise missiles, fired from ships, aircraft, drones and land, and a number of less less conventional attacks by Iranian designed drones, apparently. An article here describes the problems with hypersonic missiles https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/3/21/hypersonic-missiles-what-are-they-and-why-is-russia-using-them Getting this wrong, and seriously exaggerating their present role, is a mark against this piece, but fortunately doesn't alter the basic thesis, most of which I'd agree with.
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