For the first time in its history, Russia has been able to overtake the United States in high-tech weapons systems, President Vladimir Putin said at a plenary session of Russian Energy Week.
According to Putin, the United States is only developing hypersonic missiles with a speed of slightly more than Mach 3.
“And our systems are flying at speeds in excess of Mach 20. It’s not just a hypersonic missile, it’s an intercontinental missile. And they are on combat duty already in Russia,” Interfax quoted Putin as saying.
According to Putin, similar systems are being developed in other countries, and this is not unusual.
“I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we, having such systems, and for the first time in history, are overtaking our main competitors – in this case the United States – in high-tech weapons systems. We do not abuse this, do not threaten anyone,” Putin said.
According to Putin, the nuclear arms race resumed after the U.S. withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2003, which Moscow considered “the cornerstone of international security.”
It was not just a defense, but “an attempt to gain strategic advantages by de-energizing the nuclear potential of a potential enemy,” Putin explained.
Russia, Putin said, had two ways: either to create its own missile defense, which “costs a lot of money and it is not known how it will work,” or to develop missiles that will overcome American defenses.
“I said we’re going to do it. The answer from the American partners was as follows: our missile defense is not against you, you do what you want, we will proceed from the fact that it is not against us,” Putin described the situation.
The arms race “is not on our initiative,” he stressed, adding that Russia is ready to conduct a constructive dialogue on this matter.
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I suppose there are quite a few die hard commie ussr slaves who will believe this bollocks.
Anywhere on Earth in less than an hour…………
I imagine the putler sycophants wanking themselves into a coma with this fantasy.
For a country that spends a tenth on military than the US, which half of that disappears, I reckon we can take this with a pinch of salt.
Yeah. Come back in 2025 and tell me the same crap again. America is the ultimate military might, but ruled by suckers since 2001. But just like Ukraine, WE WILL BE BACK!
Cheers! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🍻
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The only thing hypersonic there is the speed at which shorty gets his mouth round a Schoolboy’s cock.
BS. The Russian innovation system is crap.
Absolutely. If he really did have a mach 20 missile he would be out showing it to everyone and their dog trying to sell it. Not at a “Russia energy week” speech! lmao…
I used to go to Church with a former intell officer with StratCom. He was of the opinion, which I had already agreed with before he asked me, that the only “super weapon” Putin had was the nuke drone torpedo. That was well within the parameters of existing technology. The others, such as his hypersonic missile, were not within the parameters of existing technology and the US was having materials problems during the development of their hypersonic missile. The US has always been ahead of the USSR and Russia in materials science, and that has not changed.
Having said that, ICBMs, by their very nature, are hypersonic. They do not fly in the lower atmosphere except during short parts of their trajectory.
Putin is simply acting like a typical Russian shill trying to impress with something he does not have.
In sheer numbers, the SU had an edge over us. In quality and accuracy, we did. In the end, the SU still evaporated while we are still here. What about that, Mr. High-heeled shrimp?
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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