Russia's Hypersonic Missile System

(CNN)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.

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psalms 91 said:

As far as I know we are also developing this type of missile so the deterrent will be that both sides have them, the bigger danger I think is to Europe

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MoreCoffee said:

Yes, I have an opinion.

Now that Russia is in the hands of Valdimir Putin and the country is feeling confident and nationalistic.

They want weapons and capabilities that will make them a player on the world stage just like the USSR used to be.

So they have these new hypersonic missiles as a counter measure against USA antimissile defences that had rendered older and slower missiles unreliable.

It looks like a new round in the old cold war. Only now it is not a cold war against the "evils of communism".

It's a cold war against the democratically elected government of Russia - and China - which government the USA does not approve.

In the past the USSR was driven into chaos by the pressure of the arms race with the USA when the USSR could not afford to keep up with USA "star wars" plans.

Now Russia is striking back in kind with its own hypersonic missiles cold war venture which the USA will have to spend billions to match and more billions to counter.

The USA is already in deep debt to the rest of the world. China being a major holder of USA debt.

It may not take many decades for Russia's ploy to bear fruit in the economic and political ruin of the USA.

That, I think is the aim in Russia.

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MoreCoffee said:

China is one of the world's major creditor nations; the world owes money to China mainly because the whole world decided to buy their goods from China after deciding to have China manufacture almost everything.

In the end people will die, one way or another, because of bad governance by inept governments. The USA has Donald's ineptitude. China has a new dictator. Russia has Vladimir Putin who is in effect a dictator. Israel as a corrupt prime minister. The UK has confusion and political chaos because of their exit from the EU. France has riots. Germany has resurgent neo-Nazi movements. Italy has confusion and corruption. The truth is that many of the worlds major economies are near breaking point because of bad governance.

What makes it so egregious is that the population keeps electing bad governments because the bad governments offer tax cuts and fake economic miracles.

In the end it all has to be paid for.

The environment will deteriorate, refugees will multiply, nationalism may rise and that is likely to lead to wars.

Maybe one big war.

It is something I pray will not come yet it appears that the voting public is voting to make it come.

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hedrick said:

To my knowledge, we never thought we could stop a major Russian strike. The only sensible use was against something smaller. The problem with hypersonic missles is that it reduces reaction time, and thus could tend to push someone into responding too quickly. These missles aren't going to prevent US retaliation, unless they've also invented a pretty miraculous defense system.

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Arsenios said:

The point is for Russia to prevent the US from bullying Russia...

It is strictly a deterrent...

Such deterrence is against an equal deterrence...

Making both systems defensive, rather than offensive...

If only one has such capability, the other can bully the one...

Don't you love the Russian Santa delivering Christmas Presents on a tank?

So much for Rudolf, I suppose!

But the presents WILL go through!


Arsenios

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