{"id":49839,"date":"2022-11-18T17:49:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=49839"},"modified":"2022-11-18T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:49:31","slug":"russia-fired-a-cruise-missile-with-a-nuclear-warhead-imitator-at-ukraine-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=49839","title":{"rendered":"Russia fired a cruise missile with a nuclear warhead imitator at Ukraine \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate .18 . November . 2022 | War News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0In one of the Russian cruise missiles that were shot down over Kyiv on November 17, a block was &#8220;screwed&#8221;, which is an imitator of a nuclear warhead. Writes about it Defense Express with reference to its own sources .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The publication explains that for this strike, the Russian military took at least one Kh-55 from its nuclear arsenal, &#8220;unscrewed&#8221; a nuclear warhead from this missile and put an empty &#8220;disc&#8221; instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typically, Russia used Kh-555 missiles to strike Ukraine , a non-nuclear modification of the Kh-55 missile, converted into a conventional warhead with classic explosives. And the Kh-55 is a Soviet missile that was originally developed as a carrier of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As noted, conventional and nuclear warheads differ from each other, so the Russians could not insert an ordinary warhead into the Kh-55 and launched a missile with an empty &#8220;disc&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the experts with whom the publication talked, in order to ensure the implementation of the order &#8220;from above&#8221; and the mass nature of the strike, Kh-55 missiles with a nuclear warhead imitator were used. This option may indicate that Russia&#8217;s stockpile of cruise missiles is &#8220;approaching a critical point.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another explanation given by experts is that the Russians specifically used the Kh-55 with an &#8220;empty&#8221; imitator of a nuclear warhead to create the effect of overloading Ukraine&#8217;s air defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 17, British intelligence reported that Russia was depleting stockpiles of missiles for massive strikes on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Ukrgate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV. UkraineGate .18 . November . 2022 | War News . \u00a0In one of the Russian cruise missiles that were shot down over Kyiv on November 17, a block was &#8220;screwed&#8221;, which is an imitator of a nuclear warhead. Writes about it Defense Express with reference to its own sources . Details The publication explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":49840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10831],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-49839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","category-war-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49854,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839\/revisions\/49854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}