Russian Aerospace Forces Prepare Asymmetric Response to NATO Air Forces

27 May 2025 65 850 29

The US military continues to worry about Russia's long-range R-37M air-to-air missile with a "nuclear filling." The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is now carefully is studying, why did Russia need such a powerful munition?

It should be noted that the Americans are closely studying the danger of the R-37M with a special warhead. Now one fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces (can be equipped with four R-37M units at once) will be able to destroy entire squadrons of aircraft, dozens of cruise missiles or large concentrations of enemy UAVs in the sky.

It should be noted that before the collapse of the USSR, the R-37 missile was developed on the basis of the R-33 to equip the MiG-31M interceptor fighter. In 1997, the Russian Federation decided to abandon Ukrainian components and make the munition completely domestic. In 2004, the R-37M was accepted into service, its export version was shown at the MAKS-2011 air show. Conventional R-37M missiles are now used not only for the MiG-31BM supersonic interceptors, but also for the Su-30SM, Su-30SM2, Su-35S and Su-57 multirole fighters. The integration was successful.

The R-37M has a warhead with a solid mass of 60 kg and can accelerate to 6 Machs, i.e. fly at hypersonic speed, when its range reaches 400 km. Thus, the R-37M is a very powerful munition, which now also has a nuclear version.

We remind you that its predecessor, the R-33, which was in service during the Cold War, also had a version with a nuclear warhead. Since NATO does not cease its aggressive encroachments, it is quite logical that the Russians took advantage of the Soviet school of education. If the North Atlantic Alliance decides to conduct a large-scale offensive operation with its Air Force, the Russian Aerospace Forces will have something to meet the attack with. In fact, Moscow has prepared an asymmetric response to NATO, whose air fleets can be destroyed at a great distance, creating a factor of strategic deterrence. This also increases the security of Belarus, as an ally of Russia.

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sannyhome

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27 May 2025 20: 57

There is another option - the R-37M will be useful for jamming NATO flying radars)
1. Orange bigg
  
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  27 May 2025 22: 54
  
  Who came up with this nonsense about the alleged nuclear filling of the R-37M? Why does an air-to-air missile need a nuclear warhead, it's not an air-to-surface missile? For some reason, no one is bothered by this.
  1. begemot20091
    
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    27 May 2025 23: 29
    
    What, do they detonate nuclear charges on the ground?
  2. vikganz
    
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    28 May 2025 08: 12
    
    And do you remember what else is dangerous about a missile with a nuclear filling? Maybe an electromagnetic pulse that can disable electronics?
    And the author talks about this.
    1. AdeptV
      
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      28 May 2025 14: 54
      
      Of course, an impulse, a shock wave. Radioactive damage to the area during a gust in the air, of course and unfortunately, the maximum possible. I am a supporter of the idea that the civilian population should not be exposed to danger, but apparently this is impossible.
      1. Glagol1
        
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        30 May 2025 12: 12
        
        If it explodes in the air, it's the other way around. The EMP will be full, but the radioactive contamination will be much less than if it explodes on the ground.
    2. anclevalico
      
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      4 June 2025 09: 06
      
      In Serbia, you used pulse bombs without nuclear payloads very well.
  3. GR777
    
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    1 June 2025 12: 38
    
    Orange, there is a newspaper in Israel called Ediot Ahronot. Your namesake.
Pembo

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27 May 2025 21: 22

Now one fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces (can be equipped with four R-37M units at once) will be capable of destroying entire squadrons of aircraft, dozens of cruise missiles or large concentrations of enemy UAVs in the sky.

No comments.
1. Alexpan
  
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  28 May 2025 10: 18
  
  Why "no comment"? Why comment then?
  1. Pembo
    
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    28 May 2025 10: 36
    
    Why "no comment"? Why comment then?
    
    No comments translated into Russian means: no words, what nonsense.
    I don't comment on nonsense.
    1. Mitka
      
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      28 May 2025 13: 30
      
      You've been talking nonsense for a long time now, commenting on every article!!!
      1. Pembo
        
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        28 May 2025 14: 15
        
        Why lie, I don't comment on every article. Every other one at most.
  2. AlOrg
    
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    28 May 2025 13: 05
    
    And when will they learn to shoot down plywood drones that fly to the Urals?
Gottfried

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27 May 2025 21: 49

(Google translator)

Excellent weapon. In this climate zone, the wind usually blows from west to east. If I understand correctly, the Russians' plan is to detonate a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere and let the wind carry the radioactivity back to their territory, causing children in Russia to be born with mutant diseases.
A good weapon if they wanted to distract their own population from the NATO-Russia air battle.
1. Foe Pshekov
  
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  28 May 2025 01: 21
  
  No, these missiles will explode over Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
  at such a low altitude that the whole of Europe will be in tatters, and as for what will reach us, well, what will be will be
2. Anastasia91
  
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  28 May 2025 07: 51
  
  Gottfried
  If the wind blew at all altitudes only from West to East in Europe, breathing problems would arise. For different altitudes at different temperatures, especially with such an explosion, everything is far from ambiguous, but what is certain is that Europe breathes the air of Siberia, the Amazon and Siberia are the 2 largest oxygen producers on the planet. The world ocean has a zero balance, in fact. In addition, you did not take into account the migration of radionuclides. And you did not take into account the population density and the territory of the western provinces of Europe. After several such explosions of at least tens of kilotons, the western part of Europe will consist of ghost towns, by the way, having also lost food security, having lost protected sources of water supply. I am far from the idea of the decline of Europe, but the damper of the territory of Russia is much greater. By the way, any hypothetical action aimed at destabilization in Russia will inevitably lead to systemic inevitable genetic changes on the European continent. I can already say this as a radiologist. Europe is so fragile that it would be worth thinking not only about an extra movement of words and thoughts. Unfortunately, it has become a hostage to the ambitions of fools in power. And to the systemic propaganda of stupidity.
  1. Gottfried
    
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    28 May 2025 14: 27
    
    Quote: Anastasia91
    Gottfried
    If the wind blew at all altitudes only from West to East in Europe, breathing problems would arise. For different altitudes at different temperatures, especially with such an explosion, everything is far from ambiguous, but what is certain is that Europe breathes the air of Siberia, the Amazon and Siberia are the 2 largest oxygen producers on the planet. The world ocean has a zero balance, in fact. In addition, you did not take into account the migration of radionuclides. And you did not take into account the population density and the territory of the western provinces of Europe. After several such explosions of at least tens of kilotons, the western part of Europe will consist of ghost towns, by the way, having also lost food security, having lost protected sources of water supply. I am far from the idea of the decline of Europe, but the damper of the territory of Russia is much greater. By the way, any hypothetical action aimed at destabilization in Russia will inevitably lead to systemic inevitable genetic changes on the European continent. I can already say this as a radiologist. Europe is so fragile that it would be worth thinking not only about an extra movement of words and thoughts. Unfortunately, it has become a hostage to the ambitions of fools in power. And to the systemic propaganda of stupidity.
    
    Look it up in the dictionary: "Roaring Forties"! It's the same here. Air travel from Asia to Europe is much less frequent. The wind usually blows from Siberia to America. Cyclones approach Europe from Iceland.
    If you drop a nuclear bomb on cities, you can say that it will explode over Paris and London. But these missiles were designed against aircraft. They will explode where NATO aircraft are detected. They will not fly over the Vistula.
    They will explode over Kharkov. And what is 300 kilometers from Kharkov? Moscow. Not London.
    Russia has 140 million people. The United States has 300 million. The European Union has 500 million. The wind is against you. Population density is on your side. If you kill twice as many people, you're still doing the wrong thing. And everyone loses.
    1. Ales
      
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      28 May 2025 16: 19
      
      Warhead weight up to 60 kg. - this is a tactical nuclear weapon, it will not have any significant impact at a distance of more than 10 km.
  2. Glagol1
    
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    30 May 2025 12: 21
    
    About the fragility of Europe - right on target. I was once on a business trip in the center of Germany - Dusseldorf and Dortmund. I stayed in a hotel, green area, trees, birds singing. Then suddenly something was wrong - oops, the birds stopped singing. Immediately and that's it. I was even scared. Then I found out the reason - they turned them off. It was a recording. I looked around - no birds. Of course, this is not throughout Germany, there is the Black Forest, the Bavarian Alps, etc., but in the center, where everything is crammed on top of each other - that's where it is, they turn on the birds.
3. vikganz
  
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  28 May 2025 08: 17
  
  Thus, the missile will, due to its range, explode over the territory of EU countries.
  Remember the concern of NATO countries about the Chernobyl accident. And the downright hysteria about the winds blowing from east to west.
  
  The winds blow where they should
4. Alexpan
  
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  28 May 2025 10: 24
  
  Yes, the weapon is excellent. And you, dear Gottfried, should worry about your own, Gottfried's, health after using it on your, Gottfried's, territory, and not about the winds in the direction of the Ivans you hate. Prosit!
  1. Gottfried
    
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    28 May 2025 14: 34
    
    Quote: Alexpan
    Yes, the weapon is excellent. And you, dear Gottfried, should worry about your own, Gottfried's, health after using it on your, Gottfried's, territory, and not about the winds in the direction of the Ivans you hate. Prosit!
    
    NATO has the same number of nuclear warheads. If a nuclear weapon falls from the sky, everyone will get it. Don't worry about it!
Carmela

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27 May 2025 23: 20

Some kind of bullshit.
prior

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28 May 2025 09: 12

Why did Russia need such a powerful weapon?

Indeed. Why does Russia need such ammunition if for its leadership the possibility of its use is more frightening than death?
Andrey Andreev_2

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28 May 2025 18: 43

Now everyone is shouting from every corner that Russian athletes prepare their whole lives and are not allowed to participate in international competitions... This is unfair, disorderly, an infringement of rights, etc. Why then is our defense industry working on creating new weapons if they are never destined to be used? Why are we training strategic missilemen, forcing them to maintain a constant BG, to spend half their lives underground on combat duty, etc., if these weapons will never be used (Putin says so). Maybe we should limit the use of conventional weapons and finally start fighting? Have we come to the point where scum like the Finns, the Balts, etc. are already giving us ultimatums and threatening us (( Maybe it's time to put all these fascist thugs in their place and make them toil for Russia?
Mongolor

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29 May 2025 19: 31

Not bad, but is it powder or straight-through?! Straight-through ones retain energy even at the end of the trajectory.
And where is the asymmetry in general? In my opinion, the answer is rather symmetrical. Asymmetry only if it is not a straight-through flow, then the energy at the end of the trajectory is too small compared to a straight-through flow.
Valera75

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1 June 2025 09: 29

It should be noted that before the collapse of the USSR, the R-37 missile was developed based on the R-33 to equip the MiG-31M interceptor fighter.

Many thanks to my Soviet Union for giving me and all Russians the opportunity to live. But all this can be ruined by incompetent leadership that does not have the spirit to apply everything that Soviet scientists, engineers, and designers have come up with. I hope that the current leadership has the spirit to at least once punch the mad creatures in the teeth so that everyone else will sit down on their butts and be afraid to even look in the direction of Russia.
1. Olives
  
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  10 June 2025 13: 40
  
  There is no hope anymore, is it really that clear?