Scott Manley: L’Ucraina ha progettato razzi migliori dei designer russi?

My favorite from Wikipedia:
“… In March 2006 Russia made an agreement with Ukraine that will regulate cooperation
between the two countries on maintaining the R-36M2 missiles.
It was reported that the cooperation with Ukraine will allow Russia
to extend the service life of the R-36M2 missiles by at least ten to 28 years.[11][needs update] …”
I mean also because of “needs update”. 🙂

Deriving from the somehow long running Oreshnik hype in Russia:
“Vladimir Putin spoke about the serial production of “Oreshnik”
13:57 Dec 16, 2024
It will be provided **in the near future**, the president noted.
The head of state made this statement at an expanded meeting of the Ministry of Defense.
Putin announced the launch of the latest medium-range missile, Oreshnik, on November 21.
The strike was carried out on the Ukrainian defense enterprise Yuzhmash in (Dnipro)…”

“Vladimir Putin Offers US and Europe Technological Duel with Oreshnik
13:09 Dec 19, 2024 …”

Владимир Путин рассказал о серийном выпуске «Орешника»
Владимир Путин предложил США и Европе технологическую дуэль с «Орешником»

I mean almost a month later and he is still speaking about the upcoming serial production
and “Now we can …” this can mean everything before was either just scrap
or needed maintenance and/or spare parts from Ukraine.
Now they have tested their first mid-range missile that was made completely under
“import substitutions”. If this was not a typical Russian false reporting.
It made it from Kapustin Yar(?) to Dnipro,
So it could be that the the other “Russian made” ICBMs like the Sarmat did not work as expected.
(“We can try to hit Mojave Desert, but it can also arrive in Atacama”)
Only in the case of the Burevestnik they had to admit the failure because of the radioactive isotopes
in the atmosphere around the world.
In case of a missile with normal fuel and weight simulation warheads you have in the end
some organic and nitrogen compounds in the atmosphere.
But this can also happen in normal chemical industry.

Candidates for the serial production would be “Titan Barrikady” in Volgograd and
a factory in the picturesque town of Votkinsk (there may be more candidates).
https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=57_2_53_N_53_58_55_E
(Okay it looks picturesque even if it’s only crammed. The Votkinsk factory has its testing range
in the outskirts of Izhevsk. There was some accident last year.)