It is an intermediate range MIRV nuclear missile without active warheads.
Nothing new there. In fact, it is old enough to have been a controversy, negotiated over, banned by treaty, and then redeveloped and introduced in order to void that treaty.
The only unique aspect of Oreshnik compared to its Cold War-era siblings is that 🇷🇺managed to fire a test missile with dummy warheads into a 🇺🇦city of 1 million, not cause any casualties or significant damage, and yet make Oreshnik-rattling a surrogate for nuclear blackmail to avoid upsetting 🇨🇳 and 🇮🇳
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Nothing new there. In fact, it is old enough to have been a controversy, negotiated over, banned by treaty, and then redeveloped and introduced in order to void that treaty.
They must be pretty desperate there.
A generation is usually reckoned at 20 years. Pull the other leg, Dmitry.
russia. (East Korea)
Also note that the russia's weapons are a generation behind western tech from the 1970s.