Hypersonic missiles in the field, dramatic turning point in the war
Russia uses hypersonic missiles in the war in Ukraine, devastating weapons characterized by extreme speed and precision: they can cover the distance between London and New York in half an hour. Army Corps General Giorgio Battisti illustrates the war potential of the Russian army and the possible conflict scenarios while speaking in L’aria che tira, La7, on Saturday, March 19.
First of all, the general emphasizes that the conflict did not arise because of NATO, but because of Russia, with Vladimir Putin, who wants to “expand its borders and influence”. The conflict is dramatic because “it takes us back at least a hundred years says Battisti we are witnessing scenes that we usually see in documentaries and films of the Second World War: a conventional war, built with the criteria and principles of the last century, but with weapons technologies of today”.
An even more violent and destructive conflict, stresses the senior official. One demonstration is the Russian army’s use of Kinzhal missiles, hypersonic missiles capable of traveling at 10 times the speed of sound and also capable of carrying nuclear warheads. They were recently used to hit military targets: “I’m a little surprised that the Ukrainian armed forces didn’t think that their barracks were priority targets for the Russian armed forces explains Battisti also because he had already been there in the past few days .a bombing raid on the recruitment center for foreign fighters”. The hypersonic missiles combine “the long range and speed of ballistic missiles with the precision of cruise missiles,” explains the general, who explains that thanks to gravity, these weapons do not rise into the atmosphere and then crash on the target, but can “zigzag” maneuvers with the tax systems also being diverted.
But are they allowed guns by international treaties? “The conventions don’t go into that much detail comments the officer they serve to make the war less bad, if you can say that. The banned weapons are mostly gas, chemical or dumdum projectiles that explode on contact with the body”.
Putin? But it will continue slowly to limit losses. It has lost 7,000 soldiers so far. And on the ground they risk constant ambushes, not to mention that many Russian soldiers are conscripts, young and inexperienced.