Although nuclear capable, Russia will use them as hypersonic mass drivers. No radiation, massive damage and highly maneuverable.
State collapse is inevitable when a society’s leaders are insulated from the negative consequences of their bad decisions.
Mike Shelby
Although nuclear capable, Russia will use them as hypersonic mass drivers. No radiation, massive damage and highly maneuverable.
3 responses to “Oreshnik”
[…] https://appalachianrenegade.com/2026/05/24/oreshnik/ […]
Russia using these conventionally provides real world experience and a chance to develop counter measures.
The Russians discovered that if you drive a steel impact projectile at hypersonic speed, it discharges all its’ free electrons upon impact. So you get a kinetic energy impact from the steel plus a “lightning bolt” of electron plasma that penetrates far into the ground. This is how they destroyed a weapons depot 250 meters deep on their first use last year. Zeus would be impressed. Trumps’ ballroom bunker would not withstand this weapon.