Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Russia has stunned NATO with the amount of missiles it has used in the war, many years of westers MIC manufacturing capacity launched month after month with no let up.

NATO has been far more "stunned" by the amount of artillery shells involved. Though it has long been known Russia as part of her military doctrine held huge stockpiles of same. They still operate the quantity has a quality of its own doctrine.

Hypersonic missiles are more of a "wunderwaffe" and like those in WW2 were either too small in number or not nearly so effective in reality that their effectiveness is far more as a propaganda tool and I have found Russians and their supporters do talk a lot about such weaopns. The latest I've heard directly is Russia has only used their outdated kit and just you wait and see. Plus talk of "secret cities" in Russia developing and storing all these wonder weapons.

Put it another way; how many has Russia used in this war? What they have used were air launched glide types and only a tiny handful and even here confirmation is dubious. There were videos of these in action, but the fact there were proves the vids were of non hypersonic missiles. You're not getting an iphone vid of anything motoring at Mach 10. Their hypersonic cruise types are not close to being in service. They've had to go to Iran for missile supply which doesn't sound like a nation of advanced missiles.

What does NATO, or more specifically America have? Hard to say. They were open about hypersonic systems both manned and unmanned, but went quiet about it, nigh on overnight. Though one project got nearly a billlion dollars allocated a few years ago.

They've done this sort of thing before. Stealth being the obvious one. Much scuttlebutt about it in the 70's, then silencio, until F-117's and B-2's got wheeled out. Ironically much of the stealth theory was Russian, but they didn't or couldn't develop it, or just didn't see the utility/cost benefit. The US generally has so much spare cash down the back of the sofa and an extensive and well dug in "black project" setup to allow for more oddball stuff.

Put it another way; when The Beatles were breaking America in black and white on the Ed Sullivan show the yanks put this in the air on the quiet. They even had a drone of the type.

It's actually Russia's "dumb" old style artillery that's the bigger headache by far. This war is an old style and horrific slugfest on the ground. Beyond propaganda wunderwaffe are generally only of any use when they're no longer a wunder and it's often the case other platforms take over. EG the SR71 above was later essentially sidestepped by spy satellites and its role became much narrower. Stealth is kinda similar. The stealthiest stealth platforms are not as popular these days, instead pretty stealthy, or stealthy enough is the way of things.

Oh and BTW ICBM's are hypersonic. It's how they work and America and others have plenty of them. If Russia were hitting western European/NATO cities we're in full on WW3 and all bets are off and game over for the northern hemisphere, but one thing is sure Russia would also be a cratered graveyard of radioactive corpses.

Zelensky's a coke fiend!! is the Russian version of the pro Ukrainian putin's's dying of hair faulure/is dead already and has been replaced by a mute Siberian called Yuri. Long running and daft and trotted out all too regularly. So not a shock to see it again. I missed it. 😁

Note the part too: the weapon that may prove most decisive in the country’s fight against Russia’s invasion is the humble 155-milimeter artillery shell It shows all this talk by Russians of wonder weapons and the like, is just that, talk. What Russia has/had are huge stockpiles of dumb shells and those are what has helped them take what they have taken. It'll also be what lagely decides the outcome. Though modern non Soviet type battle tanks in numbers would be extremely helfpul, if not decisive. Still "old school" but far better than anything Russia can field. The problem is numbers.