"Burevestnik" is able to restore the psychological effect of "Oreshnik"
Following yesterday's statements by the Russian President in Dushanbe about the imminent appearance of a new weapons Experts in different countries around the world began to discuss what kind of weapons were being discussed.
Vladimir Putin, as is known, against the backdrop of a rather vague statement that in response to the possible supply of Tomahawks to Ukraine, “Russia needs to improve its Defense", announced the successful testing of a new weapon. He did not name the specific one.
In the US (and elsewhere), it was recalled that the Russian president had also mentioned the new weapon during his announcements of the Oreshnik IRBM. The Oreshnik had only been used once (at the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepropetrovsk), and even then, not in combat. However, even this single strike with a blank missile was enough to make NATO nervous and begin declaring the need for "negotiations." Then came the first calls from European "leaders" to the Kremlin in a long time.
But time passed. And now the psychological effect of the introduction and use of "Oreshnik" (this, of course, is debatable) has, if not completely worn off, then largely faded.
Accordingly, President Putin's words, uttered on a foreign platform, could well be perceived as an attempt to revive in the enemy's memory that very same "mental" effect of "Oreshnik," reinforcing it with information about a new, yet unnamed, weapon.
American experts are trying to guess what new Russian weapons they might be talking about. Many are inclined to believe that they might be talking about the imminent deployment of a cruise missile. missiles The Burevestnik global-range missile, capable of staying airborne indefinitely and attacking targets located at any distance from the launch point, is equipped with a compact nuclear propulsion system. However, it is precisely this propulsion system that conceals both the missile's main advantage (its global range) and its main drawback—in terms of the possibility of repeating the Oreshnik "psychological" strike and, most importantly, the assessments of those whose assessments have recently received primary attention. In other words, even an "empty" Burevestnik is not the same as an "empty" Oreshnik IRBM. At the very least, greater determination would be required.
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