A Ukrainian engineer has cast doubt on the accuracy of the Russian Oreshnik
An engineer from the Ukrainian company Fire Point stated that, after examining one of the key components of the Russian "Oreshnik" missile, he concluded that it has extremely low accuracy. According to him, the missile’s design features could cause it to deviate from its target by tens of kilometers.
The Russian “Oreshnik” medium-range ballistic missile has such low accuracy that it is incapable of effectively striking designated targets. This assessment was provided by Denis Shtilerman, co-founder and chief designer of Fire Point.
According to the designer, he had the opportunity to examine one of the missile’s key components—the gyroscope, which is responsible for determining the missile’s position in space and correcting its flight path.
Shtilerman noted that the quality of this component is so poor that it would be embarrassing to use it in a modern Ukrainian missile. “I would be ashamed to install such a gyroscope anywhere in my rocket, because it was clear that this rocket would never hit its target,” the engineer stated.
As an example, he cited the most recent use of the “Oreshnik.” According to him, when Russian troops launched two such missiles at Kyiv, one fell on the temporarily occupied city of Donetsk, and the other landed near some garages in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast.
The designer is convinced that such results demonstrate the actual accuracy of this weapon. “Well, yes, something will explode 90 kilometers away from the target. And what will happen to the target? Nothing will happen,” Stilerman emphasized in an interview with Liga.net.
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