LevHB t1_ixwp75u wrote
Reply to comment by 158862324 in Britain says Russia likely removing nuclear warheads from missiles and firing at Ukraine by Koeny1
Huh? Where are you getting this number from?
This missile wasn't just a nuclear-capable missile with a normal warhead. This missile had no warhead, unless you count a lump of concrete ballast as a warhead. That's what made this so weird, Russia either launched a Kh-55 as a kinetic missile (+ whatever fuel is left behind), which would be really pathetic if true. Or they launched it as a test for how an actual nuclear armed one might go.
Or what I think might be most likely, perhaps this was a training exercise for the pilot, and they thought "why not fire it at Ukraine anyway". Which is still dangerous because they still got the data.
Or it's a pathetic feint. Or I've also heard it suggested that perhaps it was a distraction attempt, only problem is they barely launched much of an attack on that night.
So I don't know where you're getting the 500-1000lbs of TNT from?
Edit: the actual warheads are:
Nuclear: 5 to 150 kilotonnes of TNT
Conventional: 1000lbs HE (nice guess), or a few cluster bomb variants
Again so the Kh-55 can take a conventional warhead. So why the hell was a dummy nuke launched?
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