In the course of delivering the message to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin has shown a new powerful missile complex “Sarmat”. It is a heavy Intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear power installation and a virtually unlimited range. According to the President, the latest strategic developments have no analogues in the world.
“Sarmat”
New Intercontinental missile will replace the complex “Voevoda”. Its weight is 200 tons, range almost unlimited. The complex “Sarmat” with the wide range of nuclear and hypersonic munitions high power, as well as with modern systems to overcome missile defense. A feature of the new system is that the rocket does not use a ballistic trajectory so the missile defense system is useless against it. The missile can attack both through the South and over the North pole.
“Because the range is not limited, it may be any maneuver. No missile defense system the us is no longer an obstacle”, – Putin said.
The rocket uses an upgraded version of the already proven in practice for R-36M2 Russian engine RD-264.
The experts of the National Interest in its analytical review I consider that the possibility of missile complex “Sarmat” to overcome the missile defense system does not play a big role, as the United States are available to only 30 missiles, the effectiveness of which against even the old ICBM doubt a significant part of American experts. Although the US do not have the circular covering its own grounds, missile defense radars to attack via the South pole, but radars and satellites warning system for nuclear attack, States cover all of the flight path for ICBMs “Sarmat”, and therefore the effect of the sudden bombardment with simultaneous destruction of the military-political leadership and most of the military capabilities the United States will be avoided. A large part of the NI review focused on a different point, namely the danger of silo-based ICBMs as a class of weapons for a sudden nuclear escalation. Run according to the system warning of missile attack is always some probability of false positives that had happened in the past. Also the fear of the other side that silo-based ICBMs can be affected by pre-emptive nuclear strike leads to the fact that the parties to the conflict will launch almost all their silo-based ICBMs at the beginning.
At the same time, given the fact that silo-based ICBMs Russia has all the features a large number of warheads, it is fundamentally impossible scenario “local nuclear war” with the defeat of the separate military facilities. Instead, the U.S. will suffer from a global nuclear attack with hundreds of warheads. For this reason, the United States ceased the use of the separable head parts with blocks of individual guidance on their silo-based ICBMs to reduce sudden nuclear escalation. Experts National Interest say that, perhaps, the United States makes sense not to create the analogue of the “Sarmatian,” and in General to abandon silo-based ICBMs due to their accelerometro the nature of the application and to concentrate entirely on the perspective program of bombers B-21. According to experts NI, it will deprive the Russian program “Sarmat” its main objective — such as silo-based ICBMs the US and, thereby, reduce the degree of escalation of a nuclear conflict.
Chu Fuhai, the expert Team of the military Institute of missile forces of China, believes that “Sarmat” is primarily an offensive tool of preventive nuclear strikes, nuclear retaliation.
Underwater drones
The President also noted that the new developed in Russia underwater unmanned vehicles exceed a multiple of the speed of submarines and torpedoes.
“It’s just fantastic, no one else has such weapons yet. And when will our boys come up with something new,” the President added.
Putin said that “the results of the tests gave us the opportunity to begin the creation of a fundamentally new type of strategic weapons with nuclear ammunition of high power,” writes Lenta.ru. In fact, there is a question about underwater swimming apparatus “Status-6” — weapon of mass destruction designed to destroy economic facilities of the enemy. About taking place in Russia in terms of top-secret development of such weapons first became known in November 2015. Experts suggest that in its most lethal version of “Status-6” would be a cobalt bomb with a capacity of around a hundred megatons, blasting the coast of the United States will lead to the emergence of powerful tsunamis that destroy major cities (new York and Los Angeles) and subsequent radiological lesions of the territory they occupy, making them unsuitable for human life.
“The dagger”
1 December 2017 at the experimental combat duty in the southern military district received the high-precision hypersonic aircraft missile complex “Dagger”. This aircraft carrier can deliver a missile to a target point in a matter of minutes. The velocity of the missiles is ten times larger than audio. Range of action – more than 2000 km.
“Avant-garde”
In serial production was the newest complex “Avangard” with planning a cruise unit. This system is able to make Intercontinental flights in the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, exceeding Mach number more than 20 times. The unit works “almost in conditions of plasma,” like a burning ball of fire.
According to Putin, “it goes to the target like a meteor like fireball, the temperature at the surface of the product 1600-2000 degrees Celsius”, and “winged block securely managed”. Such characteristics of the complex, said the head of state, provided the use of composite materials. Previously, similar Russian developments were not officially announced.
Combat lasers
2017 for service received military laser systems. Their characteristics were not disclosed, the President only said that in this matter Russia is ahead of other States. In addition, the latest missile developments Russia do useless U.S. missile defense system and the attack of NATO to the East.
Don’t forget to share the joy of the greatness of our country in our technologically Telegram channel.
“It’s just fiction” Putin presented the latest military developments of Russia
Ilya Hel