Rocket Oreshnik – expert revealed new details about Russian weapons – UNIAN
The expert said that the Oreshnik strike on the Dnieper on November 21 was the first test of this missile.
There are a lot of rumors surrounding the new Russian Oreshnik ballistic missile, one of which is that its prototype was developed in Dnepr. This statement is partially true, said political scientist and former design engineer of the Yuzhnoye design bureau Alexander Kochetkov in an interview with Suspilna Dnipro.
According to him, the Oreshnik rocket was created thanks to the modernization of previous prototypes. The Yuzhnoye Design Bureau was created in the Dnieper in the early 1950s, and it was there that the history of the creation of Russian weapons began.
Kochetkov noted that the enterprise was developing a solid-fuel intercontinental missile “Universal”. Later, Moskovsky took over the development…
