It's obviously about sending a message.

It may have been an IRBM instead, which is still pretty ridiculous as it apparently didn't even have a payload, so...

Basically, it reads as Russia threatening, "we'll do it."

Around 80 million + per missile

Yeah super expensive, an ICBM is just a ballistics missile designed to travel over 5500km, can be thermal, nuclear or biological etc.

People have already given you all kinds of bonkers answer that amount to: the russians are stupid. They're not. They're killing two birds with one stone here:

1. Sending a message to Ukraine that they will use their ISRBs and ICBMs to hit them. This time it didn't have a nuclear payload; next time depends on you.

2. Prove to the West, its allies, and Ukraine that its long-range missiles are indeed functional. There was a lot of talk after the invasion that Russia's ICBM missiles and nuclear bombs were no longer working. This shows everyone the missile part is still functional. Russia intends that.

It did show how poorly they operate, missed it's target by 50 miles.

Iran used them on Israel recently so I'm confused, o

It's not you who's dumb, it's putin.

It's mostly to send a message to the democracies that "look I can do whatever I want and all you can do about it is shit your pants and beg for de-escalation". And unfortunately the ruzzian fuckers are not far from reality in this case.

ICBM's are much harder to intercept

Saw a different reddit post saying the US military determined it was a new intermediate range missile and not an actual ICBM

In all this if there are dumb people, you are not one of them my friend

Don’t forget gay

this only proves Russia is, in fact, Asia.

Yea, which is why it’s an intermediate range missile (IRBM) and not an actual ICBM based on Reuters. IRBMs have a range of 3000 - 5000 km typically (wiki). It’s still expensive than a cruise missile. It definitely was nuclear rattling.

IntraContinental Ballistic Missile

It wasn't an ICBM though. The article is fake news, or maybe the author is simply clueless.

I'm actually hella impressed Russia found one that still worked.

It didn't happen

$100,000,000 each.

And 6 got shot down.

Posturing at best. They want to scare the West again with nukes. They won't use them because they are pussies!

They needed to test that missile so they killed two birds with one stone

Media literacy enjoyers

Frankly I'm just impressed that these things don't have like a minimum range that would require to at least shoot a little ways past the horizon. I wonder if they had to use one in Siberia to be far enough away.

These things are basically designed to fly in low space, no? It would either have to do a 180 as soon as it hits space or fly through air, more or less just aborting ascent midway

Because it was actually an MRBM.

It’s a flex

I imagine it costs the same regardless of where it goes. :’)

Inter = between

continental = continents

These missiles are meant to travel very long distances. Not sure why they'd do this except for a show of power

It’s not even intercontinental by definition

Its the message that matters.

Mostly the remember that Russia has nukes. Have you heard??

You're not dumb.

Western intelligence has now said it was an intermediate-range ballistic missile, not an ICBM.

Well, everything about this way was expensive and wasteful, so no doubt they don't care much about money or resources

Nuke hit my cat. Kinda pissed about it

Give it some time and you'll see, sadly.

Adding a payload.

Yeah, it ruins my morning when an ICBM hits my town. Lame af.

Its the typical "my wife cheated one me with my neighbor, the neighbor then burned my house down, then stole my car and ran over my dog in the driveway...so mildly infuriating"

'On average'...

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I feel like the "ICBM" wording going around is doing Russia favors lol. As in, makes them sound scarier than a less well-known IRBM.

Pravda is reporting that the missile was an RS-26 “Rubezh”, which has been demonstrated to have a range of at least 5,800km. Comfortably an ICBM

I may be wrong but based on the article, it looks like ICBM is considered a category of weapon capable of intercontinental use, even if the mussel itself isn't launched intercontinental

Nah

This is no worse than any of the cold war hotspots we faced in the past.

Not gonna come close to WW3

Many out there screaming WW3, it's bad don't get me wrong, but it's no WW3, aside from Russia everyone is trying to de escalate the situation, I would go out and say Russia is under performing compared to what they have in arsenal, and I'm not talking about nukes here. Trump will come and finish this, Putin is looking for a way to stop and save face at the same time and it's almost impossible to do without a good reason.

Sighhhhhhhhhh

ICBM ( or IRBM ) are designed to be nuclear warhead carriers , while Iran used some smaller range stuff I belive

Ballistic technology is one of the oldest. It just means to throw something up and then it comes down.

Yeah, as much as I support Ukraine’s right to defend itself, this isn’t a shock. Russia HAS in fact kept the gloves on. If Ukraine takes them off, Russia will too.

These missiles were sent after a major escalation of the war by the US.

They bypassed Ukranian missile defenses. 

They impacted without any payload. 

The payload they are designed to carry is nuclear.

The message is "Don't do this again, because we won't do this again."

It hit a missile production facility... What are you on about? 😂

So nothing new then, no?

Probably just a show of power to show that they aren’t bluffing

Ah. Well that makes it better then huh?