Is Ukraine about to have a war?

[Bagheera S]

Originally Posted by ORAC

Assuming it was a ballistic missile and slowed to zero vertical velocity at its apex and accelerated under gravity to M2.5 - then it would have peaked at just over 50,000ft and fallen for 60 seconds before impact.

Since it’s accelerating under gravity the distance from the launch point is irrelevant, it’s the height from which the descent commenced which determines the terminal velocity.

ORT21 Tochka, (Scarab C) Tactical BM with a range of 185km and burn out velocity of Mach 5.3. The Ukrainian’s had approx 500 of them from the USSR, nobody seems to know how many they have left. However they’ve been used before eg on 24 March 2022, they used one to sink the Russian Navy amphibious landing shipSaratov and in doing so demonstrated remarkable accuracy.