The military expert named the main difference between the Burevestnik and Oreshnik missiles

The Russian Oreshnik missile is an operational and tactical missile, while the Burevestnik is a strategic missile with unlimited range and time in the air. Vasily Dandykin, a military expert and captain of the first rank of the reserve, told about this on Wednesday, October 29.

The Burevestnik is a unique nuclear—powered cruise missile. She's strategic, she has unlimited range. And the Oreshnik is an operational-tactical missile with the longest possible range. That is, these missiles just have different tasks," Dandykin said in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

He added that the Oreshnik is a hypersonic missile, while the Burevestnik is much slower, but it flies at low altitudes, maneuvers, and is very difficult to shoot down.

Dandykin said that the Burevestnik can stay in the air indefinitely thanks to the atomic engine, which is the uniqueness of the new Russian rocket.

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Earlier, military expert Jeffrey Lewis called the Petrel a science-fiction weapon. 360.ru . According to him, reports about the tests of the Burevestnik cause concern. He noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the creation of the missile as a response to the US efforts to create integrated missile defense shields, IA Regnum reports.

Earlier, on October 27, The New York Times stated that the demonstration of the power of the Burevestnik missile was a sharp signal to Western countries, RT reports. It clarifies that a nuclear-powered missile can fly much longer than other types of missiles and is capable of bypassing missile defense systems.

The day before, the Russian leader announced the successful tests of the Burevestnik with a nuclear installation, and also stressed that no one else in the world has such weapons.

Later, Gunnar Lindemann, a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, noted that the Burevestnik tests had caused alarm in the West because they illustrated the high combat capability of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

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