A kinetic strike means there was no warhead. Only a projectile made of а heavy, refractory metal. And it can carry conventional explosive warheads (like Kinzhal, for example), thermobaric warheads, and nuclear warheads. Many of them… And it can attack in swarms…
Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, a top expert on this matters, explains on the basis of currently available information, what Oreshnik really is:
Professor Postol also describes how the US unilateral termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty – done by Donald Trump in 2019 – has once again made Europe a battlefield, at a time of the development of the most destructive weapons in human history.
Will this do anything to prevent the hollow-headed political puppets from the EU from self-destruction?
Meanwhile, former members of the US Intelligence Community are organizing demonstrations in Washington DC on December 7th, against the nuclear war…
…while The Economist is actually expects one: