Posted on 08/28/2019 9:01:01 PM PDT by bitt
In the course of his lengthy annual address to the Russian Federal Assembly this year, President Vladimir Putin excoriated the United States for abandoning the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty while asserting that “the work on promising prototypes and weapon systems that I spoke about in my Address last year continues as scheduled and without disruptions.”
Putin went on to say that Russia had entered serial production of the Avangard hypersonic glide system, which was to be deployed later in 2019. He added that the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which he asserted was “of unprecedented power,” was in the test stage, as was the Peresvet laser missile and air-defense weapon, likewise to be deployed this year. He noted that the Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missile, having undergone operational testing, “proved [its] unique characteristics during test and combat alert missions while the personnel learned how to operate them.” Finally, he asserted that the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile “of unlimited range,” and the Poseidon nuclear-powered unmanned underwater vehicle, were successfully undergoing tests.
Since Putin’s speech in February, the work on at least one of those systems has suffered rather serious “disruption.” Despite Putin’s assertion that Burevestnik missile testing was going well, it was that very missile that Western analysts believe was being tested when a nuclear explosion, first reported earlier this month, killed seven scientists and forced an initial evacuation order for at least one nearby village because of potential exposure to deadly radiation.
Failures in the early or even later stages of systems development are not uncommon. Moreover, the Russians have a high tolerance for test failures; this is not always the case with respect to American weapons development. In any event, Moscow is moving ahead with the development of its other nuclear armed systems and is certain to continue testing
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How could Pentagon fall asleep while Russophobia lunatics keep screaming?
At current point Russia enjoys about two decades of the lowest defense spending in about a century.
Between 1925-1990 Russia almost every year outspent US of military and often by a big factor.
Just saying. But one might draw conclusions out of these facts.
The Forever War is expensive. Even the Puzzle Palace has a finite amount of money, and supporting the ‘Stan means something has to be shaved.
I’m thinking this is Fake News. I mean who tells everything they know about the other team before game day?
We probably have some awesome sh!t that we aren’t so stupid to blab about.
Of course, it was probably in Hillary’s e-mails. So there goes that line of re-assurance.
Someone needs to keep this article handy for when the hand-ringers obsess every time Trump does something he has to.
Putin’s gonna use those nuclear powered missile engines “even if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek.”
THeir economy is solely based on military. Take that from RUssia and they are a third world basket. You cannot compare their spending to ours. IN terms of sheer amount of materials they deliver themselves, they beat us
Simply because Russian antiAmericanism and enthusiasm for nuclear war in the ranks is much more raw than at the Pentagon. Sht, the cold war? they still fight WWII ...
“” “” THeir economy is solely based on military. “” “”
Where did you get it? A 1980s Hollywood movie?
Of course Russia is not Lichtenstein in that sense but that bogeyman is absurd.
The Russians aren’t coming to conquer Europe let alone US.
Good, Pentagon hasn’t been gripped by McCainism. Or Trump would have faced a military coup.
Pentagon got itself some nice INF bases in Romania and Poland. It doesn’t really need to waste money on Star Wars exotics. Tomahawk would do the same job at that range.
Irrelevant.
THe Russian soldier is punished if he is squirmey about nuking EUrope and nuke war.
Your average western soldier is reprimanded and demoted for warning about Russian nuclear attack.
Get a grip
I’d like to know violations of what exact norms and regulations would be incriminated in both cases...
This takes many years to accomplish.
It happened during the Obama presidency.
Bad faith irrelevant response to the topic at hand regarding the posture of aggression of RUssia.
Is gun ownership a posture of aggression too?
the Russians have a high tolerance for test failures;
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