Putin boasts about new Russian weapons, calls them defensive – Putin’s LIE – My Comments

Remember too that these weapons are expensive and their main goal is to physically smash into things rather than carry a war head. But not only must the propulsion system be strong enough to drive it that fast, but its metals must be able to stand the incredible heat. If it exited the atmosphere then the heat problem is less.

I'm skeptical the soviets have something this fast. Like I say these weapons have very specific limitations. They are by no means a game changer in massive war. And its a double-edged sword. The USA could smash Russian ICBMs on the ground before they take off.

The Russians, take note, have totally changed the nature of their army from a massive force of men to a much smaller, higher tech army. I don't think Russia actually poses a threat to Europe except in nukes. In all other methods Russia isn't all its cracked up to be. Jan]

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin says that Russia has developed unique offense weapons without the intention of starting a war with anyone but to maintain “strategic balance” and “strategic stability” in the world.

“We are not going to fight against anyone. We are going to create conditions so that nobody wants to fight against us,” Putin said in an interview with the state-run Tass news agency, a part of which was released Monday.

The three-hour long interview marks Putin’s 20 years in power and is being divided into 20 parts being released over a period of weeks and each dedicated to a separate issue. In episodes that have already been released, Russia’s leader talked about the recent government reshuffle, Ukraine, mass protests in Moscow this summer and the use of modern technology.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu speaks to journalists after attending an annual meeting with top military officials in the National Defense Control Center in Moscow on Dec. 24, 2019. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Putin says Russia is leading world in hypersonic weapons

President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.
Vladimir Isachenkov, The Associated Press

Russia has created “offensive strike systems the world has never seen,” and which are forcing the U.S. to try to catch up, Putin told Tass.

As an example, the president mentioned new “hypersonic offensive systems” — a weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound that became operational late last year. He said that in the past 20 years the share of modern equipment in the Russian military has grown from 6% to 70%.

“This is a unique situation,” Putin said.

Having these systems in place allows the Kremlin to “maintain strategic stability and strategic balance” that the U.S. tried to “upset” with their missile defense systems, the president added.
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“It is essential not only for us, but also for global security,” Putin concluded.

The Kremlin has made military modernization its top priority as its relations with the West soured after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014. Putin first mentioned developing some of the new hypersonic weapons in his state of the nation address in March 2018.

Last year, he described a buildup of NATO’s forces near Russia’s western borders and the U.S. withdrawal from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty as being among the top security threats to Russia.

Source: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/03/03/putin-boasts-about-new-russian-weapons-calls-them-defensive/

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