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Russia Conducts Combat Tests of the New Oreshnik Hypersonic Ballistic Missile

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Days after the US and the UK approved the launch of ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles at targets deep within Russia, its Strategic Rocket Forces attracted the attention worldwide on Thursday when they fired the Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile at a significant defense-related enterprise in Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipro).
The Oreshnik’s unveiling also comes five years after Washington moved unilaterally to scrap the Russia-US Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibited the development and deployment of ground-based missiles in the 500-5,500 km range. The US, for its part, has yet to field a new missile in this range.
What do we know about the new Russian missile’s range characteristics? How fast does it fly? What’s its payload?
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