On May 15, the Russian army launched aluminum thermal incendiary bombs into the Azov Steel Plant through the "hail" multi-barrel rocket launcher system. The bombs exploded in the air of the steel plant, like fireworks blooming. The "firework rain" burned down one after another, with a very large visual impact. However, this is not the Russian army's "fireworks set off". The "firework rain" that rushes down is a warhead, either dead or injured when it explodes. What's even more terrifying is that the combustion of aluminum thermal agent produces a high temperature of 2500 degrees. This high temperature alone can destroy all creatures within the killing radius. This aluminum thermal incendiary bomb is called "death fireworks."
May 25, in the fierce battle of Donbas , "death fireworks" were staged again in North Donetsk. The Russian army used a TOS-1A fire-breathing tank to fire aluminum thermal incendiary bombs at the Ukrainian positions, and also fired thermopressure bombs . In the picture, the Ukrainian army's positions were filled with fire, and the explosions were rising one after another, just like purgatory on earth.
On May 27, Russia launched the Iskander missile and hit the Ukrainian National Guard training ground in Dnipro and the latest NATO aid ammunition depot , causing a large number of Ukrainian casualties and ammunition depot explosions, and the newly arrived weapons and equipment were also blown up. missile comes from Rostov Oblast, Russia, thousands of miles away. In fact, the Russian army has launched Iskander and caliber cruise missiles many times, with the launch locations at Black Sea , Caspian Sea , and the Russian-Ukrainian border, respectively, hitting targets such as Lviv Airport thousands of miles away, Kharkov-Ukrainian Regional Command Building and other targets.
For more than three months of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Russian army has used some "high-precision" weapons. In addition to the aluminum-thermal incendiary bombs, thermopress bombs, and Iskander missiles described above, the Russian army also used caliber cruise missiles and dagger super high-sonic missiles. In the siege of Mariupol Azov Iron and Steel Plant, the Russian army also used 240mm large-caliber heavy mortar . One shell weighed 228 kilograms, and a 7-story building was demolished with one shell. Although this cannon does not have any high-tech content, it is particularly practical in siege. The Russian army also used a new mine-sweeping armored vehicle. The vehicle entered the minefield and saw mines detonated one by one, but the armored vehicle was not damaged at all.
As the war continues, more and more Russian military "sharp eyes" weapons are unveiled. How many "sharp eyes" weapons do the Russian military still have?
At present, the world's military strength is the first in the United States and second in Russia. It is a recognized fact. Russia's weapons are first-class in the world, and some even surpass the United States. Russia is only suffering from economic and demographic factors and has a relatively insufficient source of troops, so it has been squeezed and bullied by the United States and NATO.
At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the author once published several short articles to predict the end of the war: Russia vs Ukraine , Russia won; Russia vs Ukraine + Western Mercenary , Russia won; Russia vs Ukraine + EU , Russia won; Russia vs Ukraine + NATO limited intervention, Russia still wins, or draws, or loses both.
In my predictions, Russia is victorious. I am not a random guess. As a military fan, especially over the years of research or attention on the history, politics, military, geopolitics, and military strength of the Soviet Union and Russia, it is like his comprehensive judgment on the personality of the Russian nation, , and his understanding of the character of the Russian nation. I am not a military strategist or scholar, I am purely a hobby, and posting articles is just a personal opinion, just for entertainment. Of course, if only a few words inspire readers, it will be of great benefit.
The Russian-Ukraine War has been carried out until now, and Ukraine has lost several states. With the surrender of the Ukrainian army in the Azov Steel Plant, the Ukraine army has retreated step by step on the battlefield of Donbas. At present, almost no one except Zelian driver believes that Ukraine can win.
Although NATO continues to inflict fire in the situation in Russia and Ukraine, while sanctioning Russia, and vigorously aiding Ukraine and providing a large number of weapons to Ukraine, at the beginning of the war, the United States and NATO declared that they would not send troops to Ukraine to participate in the war, mainly because they were worried that the war would expand and burn themselves.Some NATO countries support sending mercenaries to Ukraine to participate in the war, but they dare not send regular troops to intervene. The West is still very afraid of Russia and only assists Ukraine's military aid to some tanks, , tanks, and cannons, and dare not provide Ukraine with more powerful "big killing weapons". The US said it would not provide Ukraine with rocket systems that can strike targets in Russia. US officials explained that the US is considering aiding multiple rocket launcher , but does not include long-range missiles. The reason is that Russia has made a statement first, and the weapons of aid to the West are the key targets of the Russian army, and warned that if the West provides heavy weapons to Ukraine, it will lead to the escalation of the war. The implication is that Russia has more methods that are useless, such as bombing Kiev indiscriminately, and taking out the "big killing weapon" at the bottom of the box.
The United States and NATO hope to use the "boil frogs in warm water" model. They dare not participate in the war directly, nor dare to burn the fire too strong. If Russia really hurts and fights hard, it can't bear it anymore, Russia will inevitably take out the killing weapon at the bottom of the box. Russia's most powerful "killing weapon" is of course 6,800 nuclear weapons . If Russia is about to perish, what are the remaining nuclear bombs for? As Putin said, if Russia is gone, what else should the world do?
nuclear bombs are undoubtedly Russia's "big killer" at the bottom of the box. Russia's nuclear bombs are not only large in number, reaching 6,800, but also have a large amount of them. Just one nuclear bomb can smooth out the UK. Russia's Salmat intercontinental missile is the fastest missile in the world and is almost impossible to be intercepted. The Russian army previously deduced that the Salmat missile hit Berlin for 106 seconds, Paris for 200 seconds, and London for 202 seconds, and can reach any NATO country within 3 minutes. Not only that, Russia has a trinity nuclear bomb projection method, with land-based, sea-based, and aerospace projection methods. Land-based only has multiple methods of missile well launch, launch vehicle launch, and train launch. Sea-based has surface ship and nuclear submarine launch. Therefore, Russia's nuclear weapons have strong survivability. Theoretically, even if Russia is attacked by hostile countries by nuclear attack , Russia has enough nuclear power to make the enemy disappear. This is what makes Russia's enemies frightened.
I won’t go into detail about Russian nuclear bombs. Nuclear weapons do not belong to the category of conventional weapons. This article focuses on Russian “spike eye” conventional weapons.
1. Russian rocket launcher
. The Soviet Union and Russia were the first countries to develop and use rocket launcher and rocket launcher . Rocket launcher has always been at the world's leading level.
WWII , the Soviet Union had a very famous rocket launcher called "Katyusha ". When "Katyusha" fired in a row, the opponent's position was in a sea of fire and its power was huge.
Now, Russian rocket launcher has developed to the third and fourth generations. The second generation main rocket launcher BM21, also known as the "hail" rocket launcher. The "hail" is a 122mm 40-barrel self-propelled rocket launcher. This kind of rocket launcher is mainly used to bombard strongholds and block roads. It is an important force for Russian military fire assault.
During the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that lasted for more than three months, we can see that the Russian army used the BM30 tornado rocket launcher and the BM21 hail rocket launcher, and also used the fire-breathing tank .
BM30 Tornado Rocket Launch is Russia's third-generation rocket launcher. It is the world's strongest comprehensive rocket launcher. It only takes 3 minutes to change from a marching state to a combat state. It "fires upright" and can fire 12 250 kilograms of 300mm shells at a time, with a range of between 20 kilometers and 90 kilometers and a killing area of more than 60 hectares. The BM30 tornado rocket launcher is also its ability to launch cloud bomb , sub-compartment bomb , conventional bombs, and choose for different targets and combat environments.
Russian News Agency TOS-1 "Borotino" heavy tank is designed based on the TOS-1 launch system, commonly known as "fire spitting tank". The "Fire Spit Tank" loads 24 ammunitions with a caliber of 220 mm. It can currently launch two types of ammunition, including incendiary bombs and thermopress bombs. Its upgraded version of TOS2 heavy rocket launcher is currently the most powerful rocket launcher in the world. It has a long range, high firepower and high accuracy.
BM-30 tornado rocket launcher system and TOS-1A fire-breathing tanks can not only launch aluminum thermal rockets, but also heat-pressure bombs.
1, aluminum thermal inflamation bomb
0 The Russian army fired a 9M225S aluminum thermal inflamation bomb at the Azov Steel Plant, and the scene was shocking. This made many people realize the term aluminum thermal bomb for the first time. Under high temperature conditions, aluminum element can undergo strong redox reaction with some metal oxides and undergo violent combustion. This phenomenon is called aluminum thermal reaction . Aluminum thermal bombs are a weapon that uses aluminum thermal reaction to conduct violent combustion and releases a large amount of heat to destroy the target. It is reported that each of this type of rocket can be loaded with 180 magnesium alloy shells to fill the warheads of aluminum and magnesium combustion agents. It can reach up to 2500℃ during combustion and it is extremely difficult to extinguish. The seemingly "beautiful" fire rain in the video is actually a warhead with extremely strong lethality.
The Russian army launched aluminum thermal incendiary bombs at the Azov Steel Plant, which did not cause a large number of casualties. The Ukrainian army was hiding in underground fortifications at the time, but the psychological deterrence was huge, telling the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian senior management that there was little possibility of life in the face of such weapons.
In fact, four days after the Russian army projected aluminum thermal incendiary bombs, more than 2,500 Ukrainian defenders walked out of the underground fortifications and surrendered to the Russian army.
In the battle of Donbass Northtonbatsk, the Russian army once again fired aluminum thermal incendiary bombs at the Ukrainian positions, and it is said that it also fired a thermopress bomb.
2, thermopress bomb
During the reconnaissance, Ukrainian drone recorded the scene of Russian TOS-1A fire-breathing tanks launching rockets to attack Ukrainian military positions. The Ukrainian National Guard soldiers on the Hongliman position captured this shocking scene in the trenches, and a large number of 9M22S aluminum thermal incendiary bombs attacked Ukrainian positions with high density. It is said that the Russian army fired rockets with a thermostatic warhead. In the picture, the Ukrainian position was full of fire, and the Ukrainian defense line was quickly torn apart.
temperature-pressure bombs are also called vacuum or fuel-air explosion weapons. They use temperature-pressure explosives (high-explosives rich in aluminum, boron, silicon, titanium, magnesium, zirconium and other substances) to use the temperature and pressure effects of air explosives to increase the power of detonation . It explodes for the first time and spreads into flammable mist or powder, which then are ignited and burned in the air to form a more powerful explosion called a "cloud explosion", forming a condensed cloud, or Wilson cloud, which forms part of the vacuum and high temperature in the explosion zone. The characteristics are: it has strong ability to kill hidden targets, especially suitable for dealing with various targets hidden underground or caves; it generates higher temperature and pressure during detonation; the detonation shock wave has a long acting time and great power; it causes people within 1,000 meters to die of suffocation due to hypoxia. Enemies hide in trenches or caves, behind reinforced barriers, and sometimes even in armored vehicles, and cannot survive.
With the launch of aluminum thermal incendiary bombs and thermopress bombs, the Russian army changed its past style of collapse on the battlefield of Donbas. It seemed that the battle was getting faster and faster, occupied many towns, and many Ukrainian army surrendered. This shows that these "spiercing eyes" weapons have a great psychological deterrence effect.
2. Russian missile
The Russian army successively launched Iskander missiles, caliber missiles, and dagger missiles on the Ukrainian battlefield.
1, dagger missile
On March 18, the Russian army used the "Dagger" hypersonic missile for the first time to destroy a large underground missile and aviation ammunition depot of Ukrainian army located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. On March 20, the Dagger air defense missile system equipped with hypersonic ballistic missiles destroyed a large fuel and lubricant storage point near the Konstantinovka settlement in the Nikolayev region.
"Dagger" hypersonic missile is loaded on the MiG-31 fighter . It is said that it can maneuver and change the ballistics during all flight stages. Its maximum range exceeds 2,000 kilometers, its speed can reach 10 times the speed of sound, and its terminal flight speed even reaches 20 times the speed of sound. It is the fastest-flying missile in the world. The missiles launched by the most advanced THAAD defense systems of the United States and NATO are only 8 times the speed of sound, and they cannot catch up with it, so they intercept it.
dagger can use conventional warheads or nuclear warheads and to attack ground and water targets.
2, caliber missile
On April 18, air raid alarms sounded in all Ukrainian cities except Khlsong Prefecture.The Russian "caliber" cruise missile volley fired a blow to the Ukrainian army's infrastructure, making it uneasy.
"Cause" cruise missile range is 2,500 kilometers, the latest model has a range of more than 4,000 kilometers, the warhead weighs nearly 1 ton, and it has a very powerful ability to destroy land targets. The continuous killing radius of "Cause" shows that even in the western Ukraine region, there is no safe place. In the
video, the missile was fired from the Russian warship to the Ukrainian army. Through the information released by the Russian military, the Russian army launched a "caliber" from the ship in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.
US strategic arms expert Jan Williams described the "caliber" as a "more advanced and cheaper weapon" than the US Tomahawk missile. The maximum range of the improved Tomahawk missile is 2,500 kilometers. As the predecessor of the "caliber" missile, the RK-55 "Garnet" cruise missile exceeded the maximum range of " Tomahawk " as early as the 1980s.
When Russia uses the "caliber" in Syria, Western experts were shocked by the missile's hit accuracy: the missile's circular probability deviation at 2,500 meters away from the target does not exceed 3 meters.
What's even more terrifying is that the caliber can not only carry conventional warheads, but also launch nuclear warheads. At present, the Russian military's ships equipped with "caliber" cruise missiles mainly include 2350 frigate , 21631 thug-M-class light frigate, Yasen-class multi-purpose nuclear submarine, Type 877 and Type 636.3 conventional submarines. In other words, this kind of "big killer weapon" can be fired on small boats.
3, Iskander missile
Iskander missile (NATO codenamed SS-X-26) is the most advanced battle tactical missile equipped by the Russian army. It is mainly equipped in the army and currently has 5 "Iskander" missile brigades.
"Iskander" missile is a single-stage, solid fuel, full-range guided missile , with a take-off weight of 3.8 tons, a payload of 380 kilograms, and an on-board maneuver launch.
"Iskander" missile has a range of 50-400 kilometers. It can carry clustered sub-compartment bullets (load 54 bullets), high-explosive bombs , penetrate sub-compartment bullets, ground-boring bullets, air incendiary bombs, electromagnetic pulse bombs and other types of warheads, which can effectively strike different types of targets.
4, Sarmat heavy missile
Russia's biggest killer is the Sarmat strategic missile. The "Sarmat" missile is 100 tons and can carry 10 heavy or 15 medium-sized sub-guided nuclear warheads with a range of more than 10,000 kilometers.
At present, the Russian strategic missile forces are on duty with SS18 "Satan", SS19 "Dagger", SS27 Poplar M, Yars RS-24 and "Sarmat" intercontinental ballistic missiles. The number of land-based intercontinental missiles exceeds 400, of which 46 of the largest SS18 "Satan" intercontinental missiles are in service, using a single warhead of 20 million tons. It will be replaced by " Salmat " within the next 10 years; there are 45 "Popular M" in service and will be retired within 10 years.
RS-24 ballistic missile began service in December 2009. In 2014, seven regiments of the Russian strategic missile force were equipped with the "Sarmat" missile. This fall, Russia plans to deploy about 50 new Salmatt intercontinental missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.
Russia has various types of missiles, which can achieve long and near firepower configuration strikes, which makes the Ukrainian army neither able to assemble on a large scale nor be flexible and maneuver on the battlefield, and fall into a passive position. Even some weapons provided by the United States and NATO, such as the M-177 howitzer, have become disposable items. Some have been destroyed by Russian missiles before they even arrived at the front line, and some have fired once on the front line. After the Russian army discovered the position, the missiles exploded.
3. Strategic bomber
Russia has the air force power that makes the West afraid. Russia has fighter , bomber, transport aircraft , armed helicopter , reconnaissance aircraft and other high and low altitude fighter .
Among them, the most famous fighter jets are Sukhoi Su-27, Sukhoi Su-30, Sukhoi Su-34, Su55S, Su-57, MiG-29, Mi-35, Tupolev Tu-95, and Tupolev Tu-160.
In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the first wave of the Russian army attacked, that is, paralyzing the Ukrainian air force and air defense forces. Therefore, the Russian Air Force had almost no chance afterwards.
However, it is precisely because Russia has a strong air force that it firmly controls air supremacy and sea supremacy. The Russian Black Sea Fleet is not strong, but the air force can make up for its shortcomings. The United States and NATO aircraft and warships dare not break into the Black Sea, and Ukrainian ships cannot go out to sea, and even food cannot be transported out.
I won’t say much about the Russian plane, but I will focus on the Russian national treasure Polev Tu-160 supersonic bomber. Figure 1160 is a masterpiece of the former Soviet Union. Its elegant appearance and white paint of Russian Air Force gave it the title of "White Swan". In the late 1980s, the 160 was launched. It has been more than 30 years since then, and it still leads the global bomber field. It is still the largest, largest bomb load and fastest flight speed in the world. Even its old rival, the United States, is deeply afraid of this bomber.
Map-160 can reach 275 tons, while its empty weight is only 110 tons. That is to say, Tu-160 can carry bombs of more than 160 tons, Map 160 has a maximum speed of Mach 3, a maximum flight of 38,000 kilometers, and can continuously support the flight for a maximum of 16,000 kilometers. For example, the Tu-160 starts from the Russian Far East and can cross the entire Pacific Ocean to the east coast of the United States without carrying an aerial refueling machine. Currently, Russia has 16 Tu-160 aircraft still in service.
In October 2015, a Russian passenger plane was shot down over Syria. Russia dispatched 5 Tu-160 bombers to Syria and fired about 34 cruise missiles at designated targets. This is also the first time since its design and production that the Tu-160 has been applied to actual combat operations. The Tu-160 has shown to the world with its strong combat power that it is not just a legend.
readers may often see news about patrolling the edges of NATO countries, the Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan, etc. Wherever they go, NATO and the countries that are unfriendly to Russia along the coast are shocked. One or two "white swans" appear, which often attracts planes from these countries to "fly". They dare not approach them from far away, and they dare not make unfriendly provocative actions against them.
Because the 160 can carry more than 12 X555 cruise missiles or 24 X-15 cruise missiles at the same time, the load inside can bear a weight of 45 tons. The most important point is that the 160 is a Russian strategic nuclear weapon bomber, which must be equipped with a nuclear bomb.
