Ukrainian specialists have concluded that Russia's "newest" growth relies on outdated know-how, primarily based on fragments of the Russian Oreshnik missile that attacked Dnipro in 2024.

Supply: CNN; United24 Media, a Ukrainian digital media platform

Particulars: Andrii Kulchytskyi, an professional on the Kyiv Scientific Analysis Institute of Forensic Experience, instructed CNN that an Oreshnik missile wreckage means that there was "nothing so horrible about its use".

"Here’s a gyroscope from Oreshnik – Yuri Gagarin flew with one in all these", he commented.

One other professional stated Soviet-era vacuum tubes have been discovered among the many fragments.

As United24 Media writes, the missile makes use of an inertial navigation system managed by an analogue gyroscope. Management boards recovered from the fragments point out the presence of glass-enclosed electron tubes – possible krytrons or high-frequency resonators – suggesting the missile's structure just isn’t absolutely digital.

Some elements bear manufacturing markings from 2018, indicating they have been possible meant for earlier initiatives.

Background:

• Again in November 2024, after the primary use of the Oreshnik towards the town of Dnipro, Kyrylo Budanov, then head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine stated that Oreshnik was "only a cipher" and the system itself is named Kedr.
• Vadym Skibitskyi, Deputy Head of DIU, stated Russia started new R&D work in 2018-2019 referred to as Kedr RV. This work was geared toward creating a missile complicated to exchange the RS-24 Yars – a missile that was in service again within the Soviet Union and is now on fight responsibility in Russia.
• The Kedr missile complicated was developed on the premise of the Rubezh missile complicated, however, in line with Skibitskyi, "one thing went mistaken" for the Russians and from 2017 they stopped this growth. As an alternative, Russia launched a brand new R&D venture which it referred to as Oreshnik.

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