The first satellite images of Yuzhmash appeared after the Oreshnik strike

Photos taken by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel 2 satellite. How notes military blogger Kirill Fedorov, low quality footage.

“There seems to be no visible damage, such as workshop collapses, but it is unknown how things are going inside the enterprise,” he writes. The expert means that even if the missile did not have an explosive in its warhead, it could only cause serious damage to internal workshops or underground bunkers due to kinetic energy.

Resource “Military Chronicle” believesthat even if the plant had suffered serious damage, the data from Western satellites could have been corrected. A similar thing happened after the Israeli Nevatim airbase was hit by Iranian missiles.

Be that as it may, don’t expect pictures of a factory being ground into dust. “First of all, because the blocks were used in non-nuclear equipment and, at best, left neat breaks in the roofs of several workshops, and not a continuous lifeless field instead of a large industrial area,” writes VX.

Let us recall that on November 21, the Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile system struck the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepr. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the defense facility was attacked in response to the use of American and British long-range weapons in Russia.

The new missile attacks targets at a speed of Mach 10, that is, 2.5-3 kilometers per second. According to the commander-in-chief of the Strategic Missile Forces Sergei Karakaev, the Oreshnik can hit single, area, and highly protected targets.