Fürs Archiv – Putin und die neue Oreschnik-Rakete: „Neuentwicklung, kein Sowjet-System“

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Nachgetragen (weil ich am gestrigen Freitag mit dem Podcast beschäftigt war): Einen Tag nach dem überraschenden, erstmaligen Einsatz von Russlands neuer Oreschnik-Rakete hat der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin weitere Ausagen dazu gemacht. Fürs Archiv:

Der Kreml dokumentierte ausführlich die Aussagen Putins und von Vertretern des Militärs und der Rüstungsindustrie. Aus den dort zitierten Angaben des Präsidenten (in der englischen Fassung):

You know that yesterday I informed the Armed Forces personnel, the citizens of Russia, our allies around the world as well as those who are trying to blackmail us by force, about Russia’s newest medium-range missile system. This is our, your system, which you have named Oreshnik, a ballistic missile with a non-nuclear hypersonic capability.

As we all know based on the objective control data, the test was a success. I congratulate you on this. And, as I have already said, we will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and the nature of the security threats posed to Russia. All the more so as we have a stockpile of such products, a reserve of such systems ready for use. (…)

In this context, importantly, the Oreshnik system is not an upgrade of old Soviet-era systems, even though we are all originally from the Soviet systems, and we were all raised on the accomplishments of previous generations and, to a certain degree, we built on their achievements. However, this system is, in fact, the result of your work that was done in modern Russia, new Russia. The system relies entirely on contemporary cutting-edge innovations. (…)

No one else in the world has such weapons yet, as we and you know. Indeed, sooner or later other leading countries will have them, we know what kind of designs are being worked on there. However, it will be tomorrow, or in a year or two. Meanwhile, we have this system today. And this is essential.

I would like to emphasise one more aspect here. The Oreshnik missile system is not just an effective hypersonic weapon. Due to its striking power, especially when used en masse and in combination with other long-range precision systems that Russia also has, using it against enemy targets will be comparable in effect and power to using strategic weapons. Although in fact the Oreshnik system is not a strategic weapon; in any case, it is not an intercontinental ballistic missile and it is not a means of mass destruction, also because it is a high-precision weapon.

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