Good interview about SS-25 with an expert, who has real knowledge of this weapon both as a practitioner (14 MD) and a researcher (4 TsNII).
...apart from the point about Barguzin, of course. Rail-mobile systems have no added value.
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"...The US have always relied on the first disarming strike, for which they intended to use SLBMs, and later added non-nuclear precision weapons to this mission..."
"So our stakes - on reciprocal counter strike, and a deep counter strike, if we talk about today. The latter presupposes a retaliatory strike after the the majority of silos, airfields and the SSBN deployment sites are destroued by the US strategic nuclear and precision weapons."
Interesting take on next-gen road-mobile ICBM:
- deep counter strike as new norm
- getting harder to conceal given the growing capabilities of the US space-based ISR
- even if #NewSTART ends, actual limits can remain
- MOAR MIRV, greater precision, 16000 km range, ~10 yrs
- deep counter strike as new norm
- getting harder to conceal given the growing capabilities of the US space-based ISR
- even if #NewSTART ends, actual limits can remain
- MOAR MIRV, greater precision, 16000 km range, ~10 yrs
Ah, and some #hyperhype trolling:
"The statements of the American leadership in this case are designed for an internal audience, which they want to calm down by sending a signal: everything is in order, we have hypersonic. Good, but even the DPRK has hypersonic weapons!"
"The statements of the American leadership in this case are designed for an internal audience, which they want to calm down by sending a signal: everything is in order, we have hypersonic. Good, but even the DPRK has hypersonic weapons!"
