General of the US Armed Forces McMaster: there are no air defence systems capable of intercepting ‘’Oreshnik‘’.
It will take at least 15 years to create an air defence system capable of intercepting the Russian Oreshnik missile, said former US National Security Advisor General Herbert McMaster. His words quotes aif.ru.
‘Our probabilistic models of defence against missile attacks show that the US THAAD and Aegis systems cannot be used to counter the ‘Oreshnik’ and are unlikely to achieve the necessary reliability over the next 15 years,’ he said.
Russia on 21 November struck the Yuzhmash defence company in Dnipropetrovsk, which manufactures missile equipment. According to Vladimir Putin, the military tested one of its newest medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile systems with a nuclear-free hypersonic ballistic missile under combat conditions.
The launch was a response to the strikes that the AFU carried out on targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions with US and British ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles.
The President noted that Russia is testing several systems similar to Oreshnik, and they have no analogues in the world. In the case of group use, a strike with such a missile is comparable to the use of nuclear weapons, but this system is not a WMD. In addition, the head of state emphasised that the enemy has no chance of easily shooting down the Oreshnik.
