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TexasTowelie

(117,527 posts) Thu Nov 21, 2024, 11:12 AM Nov 21

Russia Uses RS-26 Rubezh ICBM To Hit Dnipro - Suchomimus

Russia used an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time to target Dnipro. The RS-26 Rubezh ICBM missile. They used a MIRV warhead.

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Russia Uses RS-26 Rubezh ICBM To Hit Dnipro - Suchomimus (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 21 OP

It would make sense it would be the RS-26 sarisataka Nov 21 #1

sarisataka

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1. It would make sense it would be the RS-26

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Thu Nov 21, 2024, 11:30 AM

Nov 21

know to NATO as the SS-X-31.

While technically an ICBM, it can reach ICBM range if it has no warhead, it has the operational range of an IRBM. It was designed to get around the INF Treaty giving Russia an additional nuclear threat to NATO cities.

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