An IRBM With No Analogue
And No Counter Measure
Best I can gather, Oreshnik (Орешник) in this context means grove of hazel trees. Russians use hazel wood to make clubs. Grove in this context probably refers to the MIRV payload of the Oreshnik missile. That is, Oreshnik is a collection of multiple hazel wood clubs — the MIRVs — available for its owner to beat someone into submission or death. This missile fits perfectly the description of Russia as the Bhima of the modern era.
These things obsolete Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz, Jomini, Caesar, and even to some extent Isserson. Patton only ever was a thing for Hollywood fantasists. Grau and Bartles’ excellent The Russian Way Of War requires update in light of hypersonics, now with MIRVs. These weapons decisively obsolete everything taught and learned in modern US-American military schools. Everything. Moreover, they obsolete everything anticipated and planned by modern US-American military formations. Again, everything.
Russian hypersonic weapons were first to do this a decade and more ago. Yet, US-American political-military officials refused to believe it then and even later when confronted with direct evidence from the proxy war they sprang against Russia from Russia’s own borderlands (colloquially, Nezalezhnaya). Oreshnik and its stablemates now force belief in their own impotence among US-American political-military officials. These officials are decades late as well as millions of lives, billions of resources, and trillions of dollars short of requirements.
You don’t attack someone today imagining that you have supremacy, survivability, immunity, or impunity. You have none of these assets. You will be destroyed if you try.
Proxy War Is Over: Putin Has Faced the West with a Fateful Choice
The West Better Believe Putin
ADVICE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP ON UKRAINE (BY HELMHOLTZ SMITH)
🇷🇺 President Putin's points at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, the military-industrial complex and missile developers.
Main points:
▪️There is a stock of Oreshnik systems, the complex will continue to be tested, the achieved results and the speed of its development cause pride and admiration. They have shown that the Russian school of rocket engineering is capable of solving problems to ensure Russia's sovereignty, Putin noted.
▪️ The creators and designers of the Oreshnik system will be nominated for state awards, Putin said.
▪️The Oreshnik system is not a modernization of old Soviet systems, it is the result of the work of specialists from the new Russia, created on the basis of the latest developments.
▪️Developments like the Oreshnik system are vital for Russia.
▪️The solution of tasks within the framework of the SVO, as well as the future of Russia, depends on soldiers and officers, the RF Armed Forces act competently, courageously and professionally.
▪️The Oreshnik complex can hit targets all over Europe, said the Strategic Missile Forces Commander-in-Chief Karakayev at a meeting with Putin.
▪️It is important that the Oreshnik system already exists in Russia today, unlike other countries. There are currently no countermeasures to the Oreshnik system, its testing will continue, Putin stressed.
▪️"Oreshnik" when used on a massive scale against enemy targets will be comparable to a strategic weapon, but this missile system is not a weapon of mass destruction, it is a high-precision weapon.
▪️The decision on serial production of the "Oreshnik" system has been made and is practically organized.
▪️The Oreshnik system is another guarantor of Russia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, Putin said.
▪️In Russia, several systems similar to Oreshnik are undergoing testing.
▪️Oreshnik-like systems may appear in other countries: but this will be tomorrow or in a year, the important thing is that Russia has it today.
▪️Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces Karakayev proposed to accept the Oreshnik system into service at a meeting with Putin, the Russian president agreed.
Oreshnik is going into expedited serial production.
