Can the Russian Federation be dumped from space kinetic warheads for beats in Ukraine - explanation of Defense Express
Ukrainian experts have calculated the real capacity of the Orezhnik rocket, which is positioned as a miracle in the Russian Federation and declare that it allegedly retains astronomical destructive power, even in the kinetic version. About it writes Defense Express.
All the Kremlin's statements about this weapon can be posted in the form of a problem with a solution made in a special weekly edition of "Reflection", which is issued by an association of Ukrainian analytical structures "Consortium of Defense Information". The declared introductory data: Medium -range ballistic missile is equipped with combat units with a total weight of 1500 kg, which fall from the Earth space at a speed of 10 mahov - 3. 4 km/s.
This fully corresponds to the speed estimates of medium -range ballistic missiles when entering the atmosphere in the range of 3 to 4 km/s, or up to 5 strokes, even if these blocks have a special aerodynamic profile. One kilogram of mass at a speed of 5 strokes in collision transmits whole energy into 1. 4 megadjuul (MJ). For comparison, the explosion energy of 1 kg of TNT is 4. 2 MJ.
The "Oshshnik" has a total of six blocks of six objects in each, and for simplification each of them is a kinetic combat part; They all weigh 1500 kg. That is, the weight of each will be up to 41. 6 kg and this weight is maintained at the time of collision (for simplification during calculations, ablation protection was not taken into account). The impact of each such block is 58 MJ and the equivalent of collision energy in the explosion of 13 kg of TNT.
For comparison, the weight of the explosive in the battle part of the TV BC-50 for "Shahaneda" is 30 kg. If the combat units of the Russian rocket do not have a special aerodynamic shape, then their speed during contact with the ground will be about 3 strokes. And then each individual combat unit will have a collision energy equivalent to 5 kg of explosives. This is a comparison of collision energy. During the kinetic stroke there is actually no fugas and fragile action.
The only current practical use of kinetic ammunition on the battlefield is the armor -pierced sub -caliber operas for tanks - bops. All their effectiveness is only related to the appropriate accuracy of the hit, since the radius of the lesion is equal to the radius of the ammunition itself. That is, it is a question of accuracy.
And if you imagine that the "oreshnik" has not 36 blocks, but as many as 300 such unmanaged bops, then their scattering within a circle with a diameter of 500 meters, ie on an area of about 20 hectares. In other words, there will be 15 such conditional bops per hectare with a radius of lesion equal to the diameter of Bops himself.
If the Russian Federation makes a monoblock kinetic combat part, which will weigh 1500 kg, then it will be about the potential energy of touch, equivalent to 500 kg of TNT at the speed of touch of 5 strokes or about 180 kg for 3 strokes. But to launch such a rocket will need a ballistic missile of a medium range with an estimated starting mass of 30-40 tons, in the presence of the same SCRC "Iskander" with ballistic missiles with combat units weighing 500 kg.
Thus, the real practical side of the use of kinetic combat units launched by a medium -range ballistic missile does not withstand criticism. And the only goal of such statements is to sow panic and extend rumors about another Russian development. Recall that OSINT analytics explained why Ukraine sends "Shahda" to the airspace of Belarus, not Russia.