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>but a missile travelling mach 5
They're only travelling at Mach 5 for a very short amount of time, and rapidly decelerate to a little less than Mach 3 in terminal phase.
>wont simple tumble down like a leaf just because it lost guidance.
That depends on if the control surfaces got damaged by an interceptor, making it oscillate uncontrollably until air resistance overcomes its inertia as it will be unpowered by then, allowing it to spiral out of the sky like a leaf.
>Intertia will make it travel at the same trajectory forward and impact at some random location that's not the target.
Not unless it's acted upon by an unbalancing force. Newton's first law of motion....
>basically, you are full of shit and neither your webm or your screenshot shows any khinzal warhead (because a warhead will not look like in this mint condition when impacting solid ground)
The Kinzhal warhead is quite robust, and made of high strength alloys. I wouldn't be surprised if it only had surface scratches after plowing through 5ft of solid concrete. For example, here is a pic of a penetrating warhead designed for the Pershing II that impacted at Mach 4, and traveled 100ft into the ground, and it's barely scratched. To add, here is a video of a pen warhead developed by NG to test what would happen to a pen warhead traveling at high supersonic to low hypersonic speeds at impact into granite mountains. This one impacted at Mach 4 into rose granite and looks new - besides the small layer of solidified granite on the outside. Even the tip is still quite sharp. My research on the scant details of these studies indicates that penetration depth was around 40ft. Multiple tests were done at different velocities, and 10ft of penetration for every 1 Mach number seems to be the rule of thumb for granite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ljAsz_GWE

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