Ukraine: Russia’s missile travelled at speed of Mach 11 – Ukrainian military intelligence

Ukrainian military intelligence service HUR suggests the ballistic missile used by Russia against Dnipro yesterday may have been intercontinental and was likely a Kedr (“Cedar”) missile – which official Russian news agency TASS in 2021 said was a new intercontinental ballistic missile which Russia was planning to start developing in 2023-2024 to replace the Yars ICBM.

It took the missile 15 minutes to reach Dnipro after being launched from the Astrakhan region, according to HUR.

HUR also says the missile had six warheads each equipped with six submunitions.On approach to the target, the missile was travelling at the spee

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