Russia's Easter Present for NATO: Successfully Launches New 'Satan 2 Missile'

PJ Media ^ | 03-31-2018 | Michael van der Galien

[Michael van der Galien]

According to the British newspaper the Daily Express, Russia's president Vladimir Putin has escalated his war of words against the West yesterday into "war games." "In a show of force," the newspapers continues, "the Russian president demonstrated his fearsome new Sarmat missile."

Fearsome it is, indeed. The missile travels at 20 times the speed of sound and can carry up to 12 nuclear warheads f0r 6,000 miles. Because of this, NATO has dubbed the missile "Satan 2."

The successful test launch is shown in what the Daily Express calls an "Easter message" from the Kremlin. In the footage, the Satan 2 emerges from an underground silo, then hovers shortly above the ground, only to speed away in a cloud of smoke.

According to Putin, the newly developed missile can hit any target in the world. "No defense systems will be able to withstand it," he said during his yearly state-of-the-nation speech earlier in March in what was clearly a threat (or at least a warning) to the West.

Shortly after the article about the missile test was published by the Daily Express, the Russian embassy in London responded to it. The one thing they focused on? The part about the video being an "Easter message." Since the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Easter later than Catholics and Protestants do, that is not correct, the embassy says.

[CurlyDave]

I got what you meant all right.

What I meant was that once they say: “fill it up”, they can do a surprise launch.

Suppose they are not going to back down from a launch.

Their liquid fueled rockets have better performance than our solids in that scenario.

This destabilizes the MAD doctrine.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the missiles are so bad they can only be primed once... That’s still their problem. As their victory will be worse than Pyrrhic.

[JayGalt]

Hopefully there is some communication going on.