Posted on 08/19/2019 2:21:45 PM PDT by BeauBo
The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said...
The Pentagon said it tested a modified ground-launched version of a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile, which was launched from San Nicolas Island and accurately struck its target after flying more than 500 kilometers (310 miles). The missile was armed with a conventional, not nuclear, warhead.
Defense officials had said last March that this missile likely would have a range of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and that it might be ready for deployment within 18 months.
The missile would have violated the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987, which banned all types of missiles with ranges between 500 kilometers (310 miles) and 5,500 kilometers (3,410 miles). The U.S. and Russia withdrew from the treaty on Aug. 2...
In addition to the land-variant of the Tomahawk cruise missile, the Pentagon has said it also intends to begin testing, probably before the end of this year, an INF-range ballistic missile with a range of roughly 3,000 kilometers (1864 miles) to 4,000 kilometers (2485 miles). Both missiles are to be non-nuclear.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said this month that he hopes the Pentagon can develop and deploy INF-range missiles "sooner rather than later".
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The missile that forced the Soviets into the INF treaty
That might offend the Left-wing surrender monkeys in Britain...
;^)
We have Apache and Kiowa helicopters. Our Paratroopers supposedly shout, “Geronimo!” as they step out of the planes. How many other enemies do we honor in such a fashion?
Some technology may get banned, but, the knowledge and plans on how to reactive it doesn’t.
If we did that good luck to China and Russia on finding them at all among the millions that exist already.
Kiowa is gone dude. Sorry. OH-58 retired. All national guard Apache got pulled to activate duty.
“” “” no need to pretend someone else is violating it
The Russians were violating it big time.”” “”
Or it is that was said.
“” “” Actually it was a very good treaty that Russia violated and destroyed by their actions and not ours. “” “”
That is not exactly true. The US was seeking an excuse to withdraw for quite some time and the main reason is not to be restricted by the treaty to which China is not a part of.
Another point is that according to Russian intelligence US is in violation of the treaty since about 2004 using planned ABM infrastructure in Europe as a cover for deploying INF.
It is very well might be true considering the technology used for ABMs. It basically demands the same support equipment as any standard US naval missile and for that reason an ABM site only needs ordnance replaced to become an INF base.
Inderect evidence to this theory is a recent test of US INF which for some reason turned to be a land variant of Tomahawk missile.
Which sophistry are you talking about?
You think we didn’t know others were developing such missiles and that we knew that we also needed to keep up “behind the scenes” to keep from committing suicide by neglect?
“They should make the missile launcher look exactly like a semi tractor trailer to be hauled anywhere by any semi tractor.”
The communist Chinese have missiles inside standard shipping containers.
Looks like that is just what they did.
They used the MK-41 launcher, already in service, and mounted a Tomahawk missile on it. All you need to do is put sides and a roof on it, to camouflage it as a standard shipping container. We can be reasonably sure they have prepared that.
The Russians were clearly violating for many years and the NATO members all agreed.
They simply played into our hands vis a vis China.
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