Russia has no more than 3-4 Oreshnik missiles and plans to put them into serial production this year to acquire the capacity to manufacture 5 or more such rockets per year. — Ukrinform.

Ballistic missiles are terrifying, but the truth is russia just doesn’t have very many of them. The use of the missile then is essentially an admission of bluffing since inevitably the best time to deploy this very production limited weapon is when russia maximally needs to project strength… which is when it is weakest.

  • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The real question is how many they can keep building with imported resources. Would be nice if they’d already used up all they could for at least the rest of the winter.

    • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      They include components that haven’t been produced since 1990’s. They will have to re-think large parts of the missile if they want to produce more than just a handful of new ones. There aren’t endless amounts of 30-year-old devices laying around to use.