Posted on 11/27/2019 2:54:25 PM PST by DarthVader
The Russian military has allowed U.S. officials to inspect a hypersonic nuclear missile that Moscow claims can evade any American military defenses.
According to Interfax, U.S. inspectors traveled to Russia this week on a two-day visit to see the weapon as part of the New START bilateral nuclear arms control treaty, which is set to expire in 2021.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his forces would be ready to deploy the hypersonic Avangard missile by the end of 2019. It is one of a host of futuristic weapons announced by Putin in 2018, as he sought to advertise Russia's supposedly growing military prowess.
Putin said the Avangard can fly at 20 times the speed of sound—or about 1 mile per second—thus defeating any existing missile defense systems. Russia's military also released footage of the weapon being fired from a silo in a test launch.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his forces would be ready to deploy the hypersonic Avangard missile...”
Boy I wish we had some of those hypersonic Avangard missiles...
Not interested.
The war is here.
New START is in the best interests of the US.
Abrogation of the INF Treaty was also in our best interests, as we need a convincing, overt nuke capability in the Western Pacific.
Putin is silly. Russia is broke. They don’t have any technology they didn’t steal from us. LOL. What a maroon. An evil maroon, but a maroon nonetheless, AND attention whore. Putin is dangerous but China is by far and away our most dangerous enemy.
Never mind the thing that blew up and killed scientists not long ago...
Why do I think if they shoot one of these at NY it will end up in Uganda?
BFD.
Ballistic missiles travel at 16,000mph = 20 times the speed of sound.
Newsweek, you just showed how abysmally ignorant your writer and editors are with this one statement.
I'd say close to half of our own population is...
Quick, sink all of our AC carriers because they will never survive anyway. /sarc
Something to contemplate!!
I agree with you but the Russian technology is better.
Ballistic missiles can be shot down.
And irradiated tens of square kilometers, but don’t let that bother.
So can cruise missles
China and Islam.
The Russians are at least capable of civilization, unlike Islam, and are not quite so patient and devious (I say that admiringly) as the Chinese; and we and Russia have these two existential and implacable enemies in common.
If they are SHOWING US... they don’t have it.
Beware if Putin stands next to you at the urinal and asks you if you want to see his missile.
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