Yes exactly, also each icmb would qualify (during re-entry they also pickup “some” speed)… but it seems like hypersonic is sort of a marketing sticker thing, like “green” and “low fat”.
The NATO hypersonics that are being worked on should be able to make evasive manouvera at speed, will be interesting to see.
Yes, but afaik the hypersonic term applies to weapons over mach 4. NATO also adds additional requirements for hypersonics, such as manourerability. But they have enough speed to qualify.
Yes they are, but in this conflict the Russians reconfigured some of them and use them in a ground to ground attackrole.
They had shortages of other tactical weapons and apparently a nice stockpile of these missiles.
They are also used against hypersonic missiles the Russians have (kinzal etc.) and ballistics like s300 and s400.
Russia is also marching 100’s of thousands of their minorities and people of the Donbas to their deaths, and slaughtering Ukrainians while doing it, they are double dipping sort to say.
A lot of cruelty actually.
Earlier in the war a Wagner fighter who had surrendered was traded back. Wagner then posted a video online showing them killing him with a sledgehammer. Just to convey the message to other fighters that surrender is not an option.
In the mean time the soldiers used as barrier forces (that prevent soldiers from retreating) are Islamic extremists under control of Kadyrov. Look him up, remember all the joyful things Isis did in Syria and then imagine these are your “allies”.
So much cruelty…
Whimpy poles can’t even defend their own airspace.
Comon Poland…
Hardly any US aid to Ukraine is money. Mostly the amounts you see is the value of the aid.
The US sends Ukraine weapons and munitions that come from their own stock, and buy new ones for the US
3 hour old sockpuppet doing Putin’s work.
The bulk of their recruitment is voluntary.
Neither are forced. Russian civil unrest will only grow if enough of their soldiers don’t make it home. It will take a lot of Ukranian doing in order to combat years of propaganda. But now the government will be forced to spend 30pct of their budget on the military it will be harder and harder to maintain “special military operations” is going to plan.
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He claims it was already done… let’s see how that plays out.
Also your opponent might just forego pretence and summarily execute you when they catch you or claim themself president and be immune to consequences and imprison you anyway.