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toodroot t1_itf086f wrote

I know it wasn't you who said it, but the discussion started with:

> quite a few hypersonic missiles with good track records.

... and it's not really interesting to discuss only the first half. Russia has a lot of weapons that supposedly have the right features, and they suck when you try to use them.

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EclecticKant t1_itgouf1 wrote

The iskander is an effective hypersonic missle, i focused on the hypersonic part because it's the technically harder one. They are precise enough to hit a specific part of a building, powerful enough to destroy it completely (I'm sure some military bunkers could withstand its impact, but surely not many of them), and since they are hypersonic they are extremely hard to intercept. As expected it's the precision guided missile that Russia used the most, and that it has the least left in stock (probably, infos about Russia armament are hard to confirm). As i said the missle is technically impressive, but not being able to produce them in sufficient quantity reduces its impact on the battlefield, but that is an industrial problem, the discussion was started on the technical capabilities of Russia.

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D1N0F7Y t1_ith7ztd wrote

They took out electric infrastructure in one of the most heavily air defended country in the world.

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