Why were the USA not afraid of the Russian Zircons?
Not even a month has passed since the decision by the United States and the Russian Federation to withdraw from the INF Treaty, as the parties began to "measure", who has a larger rocket and flies further. In his Address to the Federal Assembly, President Putin said the strike could also come at “decision centers.” How appropriate is it now to make public such warnings?
Vladimir Putin said the following:
As a threat to the Americans on Russian television, Zircon missiles were rather unexpectedly named. Unexpectedly, because they are, by definition, anti-ship missiles. According to reports, the Zircons are expected to hit three military centers on the US East Coast and two on the West. However, the relatively small mass of the warhead does not allow us to rely on the confident destruction of protected American military installations.
The head of the US Department of State, the former head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo spoke rather dismissively of this veiled threat of Vladimir Putin:
Naturally, several questions arise:
At first, the Russian president is talking about creating new weapons in the future tense. Will the assumption that they are not yet present be true?
Secondlyif the first assumption is true, will the hypothesis be true that it is Zircons that are actually on duty from hypersonic weapons today? Then I wonder if their reserves are large, and how many in the very near future our military industry will still be able to produce them?
ThirdlyZircons, even after modernization, can be launched from a rather limited number of carriers: TARKR Admiral Nakhimov and Peter the Great, destroyers of the Leader project, nuclear submarines Yasen, Antey and Husky. Here are just the destroyers "Leader" we have so far in the form of sketches, like the fifth-generation submarine "Husky". Peter the Great is the only one in the TARKR system, and to equip it with Zircons, modernization is required, which will last at least until 2022. Ashes by 2020, we will have 7 pieces.
The bottom line is that for the most part, the threats to the Americans relate to the future. First, the domestic defense industry will need to do a very extensive job. At the same time, last year, President Trump decided to recreate the US Second Fleet, the armada, which during the confrontation with the USSR covered the States from the Atlantic. One hardly wonders why the head of the State Department, Mike Pompeo, was not impressed ...
If you dig quite deeply, it turns out that with his public statements about the Zircons flying into the window of the White House and the Pentagon, President Putin gives Washington a reason to allocate more budget money for rearmament and the fight against the “Russian threat”. Of course, raising the mood for the electorate is pleasant, but not always useful.
Vladimir Putin said the following:
Russia will be forced to create and deploy types of weapons that can be used ... and in relation to those territories where decision centers on the use of missile systems that threaten us are located.
As a threat to the Americans on Russian television, Zircon missiles were rather unexpectedly named. Unexpectedly, because they are, by definition, anti-ship missiles. According to reports, the Zircons are expected to hit three military centers on the US East Coast and two on the West. However, the relatively small mass of the warhead does not allow us to rely on the confident destruction of protected American military installations.
The head of the US Department of State, the former head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo spoke rather dismissively of this veiled threat of Vladimir Putin:
His rampage is aimed at trying to convince the world to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe.
Naturally, several questions arise:
At first, the Russian president is talking about creating new weapons in the future tense. Will the assumption that they are not yet present be true?
Secondlyif the first assumption is true, will the hypothesis be true that it is Zircons that are actually on duty from hypersonic weapons today? Then I wonder if their reserves are large, and how many in the very near future our military industry will still be able to produce them?
ThirdlyZircons, even after modernization, can be launched from a rather limited number of carriers: TARKR Admiral Nakhimov and Peter the Great, destroyers of the Leader project, nuclear submarines Yasen, Antey and Husky. Here are just the destroyers "Leader" we have so far in the form of sketches, like the fifth-generation submarine "Husky". Peter the Great is the only one in the TARKR system, and to equip it with Zircons, modernization is required, which will last at least until 2022. Ashes by 2020, we will have 7 pieces.
The bottom line is that for the most part, the threats to the Americans relate to the future. First, the domestic defense industry will need to do a very extensive job. At the same time, last year, President Trump decided to recreate the US Second Fleet, the armada, which during the confrontation with the USSR covered the States from the Atlantic. One hardly wonders why the head of the State Department, Mike Pompeo, was not impressed ...
If you dig quite deeply, it turns out that with his public statements about the Zircons flying into the window of the White House and the Pentagon, President Putin gives Washington a reason to allocate more budget money for rearmament and the fight against the “Russian threat”. Of course, raising the mood for the electorate is pleasant, but not always useful.
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