Russia-U.S. "Relations" & Maneuverings

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would be forced to respond if the United States exits the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces arms control treaty.
The United States delivered Russia a 60-day ultimatum on Tuesday to come clean about what Washington says is a violation of a 1987 nuclear arms control treaty, saying it would be forced to start a six-month process of withdrawal if nothing changed.
Putin, in televised comments, said that Moscow was against the scrapping of the treaty, but that the United States had long ago decided to exit the treaty and was blaming Russia for violations in order for them to serve as a pretext.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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Soldier said:

Entire Russia is gay sex haha. :smile: :smile: :smile:

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DaSleeper said:

Nothing beats a Camel for that eh?

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MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin has rejected U.S. criticism of Russian strategic bombers' deployment to Venezuela.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to Monday's arrival of a pair of Tu-160 nuclear-capable bombers in Venezuela by tweeting that "the Russian and Venezuelan people should see this for what it is: two corrupt governments squandering public funds, and squelching liberty and freedom while their people suffer."
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, dismissed Pompeo's comment as "undiplomatic" and "inappropriate." He told reporters Tuesday that such criticism sounds odd from a country "half of whose military budget would be enough to feed the whole of Africa."
Russian-U.S. ties have sunk to post-Cold War lows over Ukraine, the war in Syria and allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

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Russia said its Su-57 stealth fighter jet will be armed with hypersonic missiles similar to the Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
Moscow said the new Kh-47M2, or Kinzhal, hypersonic missile can hit speeds of up to Mach 10 and has a range of 1,200 miles.
But the missile will have to be a smaller version of the Kinzhal to fit in the Su-57's weapons bays.
Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter jet will be armed with hypersonic missiles, according to Tass, a Russian state-owned media outlet.
"In accordance with Russia's State Armament Program for 2018-2027, Su-57 jet fighters will be equipped with hypersonic missiles," a Russian defense industry source told Tass.
"The jet fighters will receive missiles with characteristics similar to that of the Kinzhal missiles, but with inter-body placement and smaller size," the source added.
Moscow said the new Kh-47M2, or Kinzhal, air-launched hypersonic missile can hit speeds of up to Mach 10 and has a range of 1,200 miles. The Tass report also said "Kinzhal missiles are practically impossible to detect with modern air defense systems."
While many western analysts remain skeptical of the Kinzhal's capabilities, the missile appears to be an adaptation of the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile that flies at hypersonic speeds.
In March, Russia successfully test fired a Kinzhal from a MiG-31BM and is fitting it to a MiG-31K variant.
But the "missiles with characteristics similar to that of the Kinzhal" will have to be smaller than the actual Kinzhal to fit in the Su-57's weapons bays, according to The Diplomat.
The Russian military will reportedly receive a small batch of 12 Su-57s next year, but Moscow has yet to equip the fighter with theIzdeliye-30 engine, which means it is not yet a true fifth-generation jet.

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Twin_Moose said:

Russia says it won't let U.S. see missile at heart of nuclear dispute

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Twin_Moose said:

Russia says it won't let U.S. see missile at heart of nuclear dispute

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MHz said:

The missiles in violation are drone swarms, like the one already launched against Syria.

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Curious Cdn said:

It's a mock-up meant to boggle the Yanks.

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Curious Cdn said:

Computers can't figure out which target to track when their radars are swarmed. It's going to take some really sophisticated sensing and powerful Artificial Intelligence to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Warships are particularly vulnerable.

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Twin_Moose said:

I believe the same thing that is why Russia is really worried about the US pulling out and producing missiles that were in the blue print stage
Or go back to old blunder buster technology and spray the skies with bird shot

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Russia's new hypersonic missile system, which President Vladimir Putin claims is "invulnerable" to US defenses, will enter service in 2019, the Russian leader said after a test of the missile Wednesday.
"Russia is the first in the world to receive a new type of strategic weapon and this will reliably ensure the security of our state and of our people for decades to come," Putin said, according to the state-run Tass news service.
"This is a wonderful, excellent gift for the country for the New Year," Tass quotes Putin as saying.
The Avangard hypersonic system was tested from the Dombarovsky military airbase in southwest Russia, according to Tass.

Earlier reports say the Avangard has intercontinental range and the ability to fly as fast as Mach 20, more than 15,000 miles per hour.
As it closes in on its target, the missile with a maneuverable gliding warhead can adjust both altitude and direction to avoid defenses and fly low enough to avoid most interceptors, Tass has reported.
"It will be practically invulnerable," Putin said when he boasted of the Avangard during a March address to the Russian Parliament.
While there was no immediate Pentagon comment on Putin's announcement Wednesday, a US official expressed doubt to CNN about the weapon systems which Putin talked about in March, saying they were not close to operational.
Analysts, too, caution that Russian boasts of new military capabilities are often not backed up in reality.
"Limited funding and other defense industrial resources have also threatened a variety of other Russian strategic and non-strategic military modernization efforts," Joseph Trevithick, a fellow at GlobalSecurity.org, wrote on The War Zone blog. "It remains to be seen just how rapidly the Kremlin can actually get its new hypersonic weapon into service and to what degree."
But Putin's announcement Wednesday indicates Moscow is still pursuing weapons systems that give the Pentagon pause for thought.
Gen. John Hyten, the four-star head of US Strategic Command, warned in March the current generation of US missile-detecting satellites and radars won't be capable of spotting weapons such as the Avangard.
"We are going to need a different set of sensors in order to see the hypersonic threats," Hyten told CNN at the time.
The geopolitical intelligence website Stratfor, in a post earlier this year, describes hypersonic weapons as destabilizing.
"These missiles will trigger a new arms race for offensive superiority," Stratfor says.
It also says hypersonic weapons encourage first strikes because they leave an opponent little time to consider options.
Shorter reaction times and lack of adequate defenses will make preemptive strikes more attractive," according to Stratfor.
Besides Russia, the US and China have been working on hypersonic weapons.
Beijing says it successfully tested a hypersonic aircraft in August, flying its Starry Sky 2 vehicle at Mach 6. It did not say what plans it has for hypersonic technology other than to contribute to its aerospace industry.
The US Air Force earlier this year awarded a $928 million contract to Lockheed Martin to develop a hypersonic missile.
Meanwhile in December, US Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael D. Griffin told reporters the US could have a "workable defensive capability" against hypersonic weapons by the middle of the next decade.
Moscow's Avangard announcement comes less than a month after Washington said it would stop adhering to a decades-old nuclear treaty in 60 days unless Russia returns to compliance with it.
The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty forced both countries to eliminate ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between approximately 300 and 3,400 miles.
The US says specifically that Russia violated the INF when it developed and fielded the 9M729 missile system in 2017. Russia denies violating the pact.
The intercontinental-range Avangard would not have been covered by the INF. But Wednesday's announcement seems likely to be another thorn in increasingly prickly US-Russia relations.
Speaking in early December, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Russia's alleged violation of the INF Treaty was part of a wider web of destabilizing behavior, including Moscow's recent clash with Ukraine in the Kerch Strait.
"These violations of the INF treaty cannot be viewed in isolation from the larger pattern of Russian lawlessness on the world stage," Pompeo declared. "The list of Russia's infamous acts is long: Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, election meddling, Skripal and now the Kerch Strait, to name just a few."

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Twin_Moose said:

I believe the same thing that is why Russia is really worried about the US pulling out and producing missiles that were in the blue print stage


Or go back to old blunder buster technology and spray the skies with bird shot

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nuclear missile ready to deploy, Putin says

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MHz said:

You need to be able to shoot down the 1st wave and take out the launch platforms before they can reload.

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MHz said:

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/08/22/irans-fighter-jet-fake.htm
lt's called back engineering, locally produced means they have all the parts available locally. Today they are launch platforms so it is the missiles it will carry that need to be 21st century. They could also be launches as a drone which was my other point, they do not need to be small, they need to be many. Pilots are AI.

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