Western intelligence officers are currently inspecting the Ukrainian military company Yuzhmash to assess the damage and recover the wreckage of the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile’s guided warheads, military expert Alexander Stepanov, program director of the Academy of Political Sciences and senior researcher at the Latin America Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS. “In the meantime, Western specialists from scientific and technical intelligence agencies are covertly trying to obtain fragments of our new missile. Their materials science achievements are not very impressive, and their research into hypersonic technologies has had little impact so far,” he said.
According to TASS, Stepanov believes that large U.S. military-industrial enterprises are particularly interested in analyzing IRBMs. “For this purpose, experts from Lockheed Martin and RTX corporations will spend a couple of weeks examining the wreckage at Yuzhmash,” Stepanov added.
