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​Latest hypersonic missile test a wake-up call for the US

1/15/2019

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The above video, from the Russian MoD, shows the launch of the Avangard hypersonic missile during its first test.
 
The following is our translation of a Russian expert's opinion on the US wake-up call to Russian hypersonic weapons, with commentary by Vince Dhimos. The reaction of US media and politicians to Putin’s speech before the Federal Assembly was to poo-poo the statements about hypersonic weapons, mocking them as mere cartoons (Putin had in fact illustrated his report on the new arms using cartoons at the time).
 
But the latest test of the Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic Avangard in December of 2018 changed minds in Washington.
 
It is to his credit that CFR president Richard Haass realized the danger of Russian arms even before the test was reported, and wrote, in his paper titled How a World Order Ends, that the “US cannot defeat Russia.” This marked a major turning point for US policy and was the subject of our report The Deep State capitulates to Russia.
 
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"And then they realized that Russia has hypersonic weapons": Satanovsky spoke about the Russian Federation’s cold shower for the United States in Ukraine and Syria
 
January 15, 2019
 
https://rueconomics.ru/372445-i-tut-oni-ponyali-chto-u-rossii-est-giperzvuk-satanovskii-rasskazal-o-kholodnom-dushe-rf-dlya-ssha-po-ukraine-i-sirii    
 
The emergence of hypersonic weapons from Russia was a cold shower for the United States, which realized the risks of provoking a conflict with the Russian Federation in Syria and in Ukraine. This was stated by political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky.
 
According to the expert, America has recently found out for itself that Russia’s new weapons, like its cooperation with China, are, if not the deadliest, then the biggest threat to the States. Not so long ago in Washington they could not have imagined what danger the United States faces in provoking the Russian Federation in different parts of the globe, but recent events in the military sphere opened the Americans’ eyes.
 
“They, it turns out, didn’t assume that by slapping us with sanctions and giving us “lost years” over the situation with the Crimea, the Crimean Bridge, the Minsk Agreements and Ukraine as a whole, these guys were taking risks, serious risks. However, the Syria outcome had also been unexpected," said Satanovsky.
 
The main issue, the political analyst noted, is the newest weapons of Russia, which President Vladimir Putin described in March in a message to the Federal Assembly. After that, the United States and other Western countries began to argue that Russia allegedly had nothing but “cartoons,” trying to provoke Moscow to show concrete examples. “When you say that we have no cartoons, but technologies, and here are the proofs, you are at the same time blabbing state secrets. This is a primitive and very good move,” the expert explained the US calculation.
 
The last straw for the United States was the test at the end of 2018 of the Avangard hypersonic missile system, which was launched in Kamchatka. This proved to the whole world, including the Americans, that Russia already has a hypersonic weapon in its arsenal, against which the United States is defenceless.
 
"The testing was demonstrated. And it turned out that Russia has hypersonic missiles. And the Chinese are developing them. And America doesn’t have any. And it served as a cold shower of the kind that Americans have not received for a long time," said Satanovsky on the air on Vesti."
 
Earlier, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu called the rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) one of the priorities of the military department for 2019. The priority of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is the formation of missile regiments equipped with the Avangard complexes, as well as the equipping of the strategic weapons systems of Russia in the air and at sea with advanced weapons.
 
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Forrest
1/15/2019 08:26:23 am

Take THAT! Deep State!

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John McClain
1/18/2019 05:33:28 am

As a retired Marine, a technology expert, well educated in advanced electronics, explosive ordnance, and nuclear weapons, I've long expected to see new designs, specifically aimed at removing "weapons platforms", as that has long seemed to be the next echelon of threat, beyond individual weapons, and individual launches.
The "hypersonic" was a logical extention, we've utterly failed to consider, because we have focused all our effort on technology advancing on "the cutting edge", while so many others see the advantage of taking long achieved advances, and seeing how they can be used in different venues, and in truth, this situation is nothing more or less than Russian science taking the greatest advances in launch vehicles, and combining that with the first major lethal weapon, the "stone mass", the stone that took down Goliath, destroyed every castle ever besieged, and is in all of human history, as far back as it goes, and has brought that "stone" into the nuclear age, to poke "hypervelocity holes" in any launch platform we might launch missiles from, including formerly "invincible" carriers.
I find it amuzing, some years ago, King Faisal was asked why he was investing in nuclear energy, given their dependence on oil, and its easy availability. He replied, man didn't leave the stone age, for running out of stones, but for finding better technology, and oil will remain, long after it is no longer considered primary technology.
We, those who delve in science, would like to think we hold the key to security, safety, the whole of the future, by always looking forward, and we are "shocked, truly shocked", when an antiquated method of destruction is brought into this future, as the antidote for the most aggressive advances in technology, overcoming all the advantages, simply by being, well, simple. Remember, we spent millions, to make a pen that writes in space, Russia took pencils, then crayons, because pencils leave graphite dust. They can still get into space without us, we can't without their rocket engines, we haven't built engines in decades.
Semper Fidelis,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC, USA

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