Now RF Releases Test of New Nuclear HGV;Defeats ABMS And Hits Air, Land, Sea Targets

[ArmyATC]

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Now RF Releases Test of New Nuclear HGV;Defeats ABMS And Hits Air, Land, Sea Targets

Moscow is developing a new, ultra-high speed strategic attack vehicle similar to China’s hypersonic weapon, according to military analysts.

However, unlike high-profile strategic bomber flights and large-scale nuclear war games that U.S. military commanders have called provocative, details about the Russian hypersonic vehicle remain one of Moscow’s closely held military secrets.

The Russians have been developing the new Yu-71 vehicle for several years and conducted the most recent flight test in February, according to an article published this month in Jane’s Intelligence Review.

Looks like this will be the Sino-Russian official strategy to counter US ABMS

Jane’s concludes that Russia over the past five years has stepped up the secret program as part of efforts to defeat U.S. missile defenses that were designed to counter predictable ballistic targets.

Hypersonic vehicles, however, are very difficult to track and target because they move in unpredictable ways at speeds of up to 7,000 miles per hour.

Mark Schneider, a former Pentagon official who closely monitors Russian strategic weapons programs, said Moscow’s development of glide-strike vehicles and maneuvering warheads are high-priority programs.

Suspected flight tests of the newer Yu-71 likely took place in December 2011, in September 2013, at an an unknown date in 2014, and on February 26 in Dombarovsky.

Almost Mach 10, the fourth test.... the similiarities to the Chinese Wu-14 are more than coincidental.

Unlike U.S. plans for hypersonic missiles to deliver conventional warheads, “Russia appears to be considering the option of deploying its hypersonic system in a nuclear, as well as conventional, configuration,” the Jane’s report said.

“This would give Russia the ability to deliver a guaranteed small-scale strike against a target of choice; if coupled with an ability to penetrate missile defenses, Moscow would also retain the option of launching a successful single-missile attack.”

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Here's where it gets nteresting. If the RF makes this nuclear, then it's clearly a violation of the INF. The US only has been officially developing HGVs for conventional ballistics. So if they have tested this 4 times with nuclear intent, then why isn't the US officially doing the same, for self-defense?

The report says Moscow may seek to exploit its hypersonic weapons to gain leverage in arms control talks with the United States as a way to seek limits on U.S. missile defenses and the Prompt Global Strike program

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Ahhh, there it is. They want to blackmail the US to limit ABMS and Prompt Global Strike Program... good Luck, Ivan.

“Our program is developing in a different direction; we are creating maneuverable hypersonic warheads for intercontinental ballistic missiles, and there are no plans to control them from outside—the target-kill program is installed in them in advance,” the defense industry official told Izvestya, a Russian newspaper.

Yea, it's different alright. Once you push the button, there is no human to stop it. This is a first strike, nuclear blackmail project.

Alexander Shirokorad, a Russian military analyst, stated in a 2013 article in the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta that hypersonic glide vehicles are one reason Moscow decided to violate the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty, that prohibits building missiles with ranges of between 500 kilometers and 5,500 kilometers.

“New IRBMs will breach a missile defense by traveling along exotically variable trajectories,” Shirokorad stated. “The combination of hypersonic cruise missiles with ballistic is not ruled out. Aside from operating against ground targets, IRBMs will be able to engage naval targets, too—aircraft carriers, cruise missile-armed Ticonderoga-class cruisers, and even submarines.”

And the RF complains about Global Strike Program, but won't rule out air, land and sea targets..even subs. Well this is one heck of a piece of dangerous propaganda. Hopefully the US will say good, now we can openly build up while people still think our money is good.

See the delimma? Our window of economic chance is closing, while the East is already setting up for a post-dollar world. Next 1-5 years are gonna be interesting for sure.

But then there's that pesky 'New Cold War' thingy everyone is turning a blind eye to. 'What New Cold War? We are just 'modernizing' and violating treaties..nothing to see here. Go back to sleep..'

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-tested-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-in-february/

 

[JohnStone]

But if Russia is so confident in their new hypersonic weapon, then they don't need to worry about our missile defense systems...the HM will fly right past the ABMS. I'll bet that their expensive to make, so they'll have a limited quantity.

 

[ArmyATC]

But if Russia is so confident in their new hypersonic weapon, then they don't need to worry about our missile defense systems...the HM will fly right past the ABMS. I'll bet that their expensive to make, so they'll have a limited quantity.

That's kinda what I was wondering.. Why now are Russia and China releasing all this propaganda about how ineffective our ABMS is if they weren't worried about it.

And yes, from design to deployment will take years and billions. So what is really up?

 

[JohnStone]

But if Russia is so confident in their new hypersonic weapon, then they don't need to worry about our missile defense systems...the HM will fly right past the ABMS. I'll bet that their expensive to make, so they'll have a limited quantity.

That's kinda what I was wondering.. Why now are Russia and China releasing all this propaganda about how ineffective our ABMS is if they weren't worried about it.

And yes, from design to deployment will take years and billions. So what is really up?

I'm thinking it's overblown to scare us away from pushing the button. Putin may brag about his nukes, but I think both he and China are afraid we may become overconfident with ABMS's in place and carry out a first strike (wouldn't surprise me if we did really). They may be under the impression that we're prepared to do this assuming the ABMS actually works, which really would alter the preconceptions regarding MAD if they did.

 

[Encyclopath]

I think the fact of where the US carrier groups are positioned (and more specifically where they are not), seems to say a lot about how effective those weapons have been determined to be.