{"id":301110,"date":"2024-12-29T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301110"},"modified":"2024-12-31T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T07:50:38","slug":"germany-defenseless-against-oreshnik-missile-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301110","title":{"rendered":"Germany defenseless against Oreshnik missile: Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MEHR News Agency \u2013 Dec 28, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The intermediate-range ballistic rocket, which can carry multiple types of warheads, including nuclear ones, was first used on November 21, when it struck Ukraine\u2019s Yuzhmash military industrial facility in the city of Dnepr. Commenting on the attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the Oreshnik travels at ten times the speed of sound and cannot be intercepted by any existing air defenses, Sputnik reported.<\/p>\n<p>In its article on Friday, the German media, Bild reported that Germany\u2019s Foreign Ministry had commissioned an internal study of Berlin and Kyiv\u2019s air defense capabilities in the face of a potential ballistic missile threat. In a move seemingly encroaching on Defense Ministry turf, the diplomats drew on the expertise of a liaison officer and several air defense specialists within the military.<\/p>\n<p>According to the media outlet, the conclusion they arrived at was that \u201cGermany would be defenseless against an Oreshnik attack.\u201d Bild quoted the document as warning that the US-made Patriot air defense system is \u201cnot suitable for countering a long-range ballistic missile, such as the Oreshnik.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the Russian missile\u2019s speed and maneuverability,\u00a0\u201ca potential interception would be more of a lucky strike,\u201d\u00a0the Foreign Ministry\u2019s analysis reportedly stated.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, President Putin said that while Russia does not\u00a0\u201chave many of the Oreshnik systems yet\u201d\u00a0and is\u00a0\u201cnot in a rush to use them,\u201d\u00a0Moscow does\u00a0\u201cnot rule out the possibility of using it today or tomorrow if there is a need.\u201d\u00a0The head of state added that the hypersonic missile had already entered serial production, and confirmed that a number of units would be deployed to Russia\u2019s close ally, Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/226142\/Germany-defenseless-against-Oreshnik-missile-Media\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study conducted by German defense experts, Germany\u2019s air defenses would be unable to defend Germany from the latest generation of Russian hypersonic missiles <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":300304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301111,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301110\/revisions\/301111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}