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It's an useless wundweraffe, in the sense its capability without a warhead is probably worse than an iskander; while costing several times more. this was launched slowly to try to save face after a week of huge L.

What do you mean it was launched 'slowly?' And why would they leave the warhead off?

There seem to be no detonations on the ground? Are they still using inert warheads just for the light show? Because besides deep holes, those can't do much damage...

No, just to say "see? Next time will be the real deal!" (Again)

Are military experts here? What is the point of wasting a multimillion-dollar dummy IRBM to make some fireworks? I only conclude that they do not have suitable warheads at all.

It probably has good penetration power, however its CEP is bad and without a warhead, its probably only good to destroy something like a small underground cavern. assuming it hits it. if it had good CEP, it could be a valuable weapon, but given its costs, its nothing more than a propaganda tool.

I'm not an expert, but I'll give my educated guess. The missile is designed to deliver nukes, which are very heavy, but don't occupy a large volume. Whatever payload they use needs to match very closely (I can't say what the margin would be) the designed weight and volume of the nuclear warheads the

missile was designed around. I'm guessing that they don't have an existing conventional explosive/warhead/payload that meets the missiles payload criteria. They do, however have dummy loads used for testing the missile during development.