No one is bombing Russia ever? Too triumphalist a statement. What about a non-state actor? An ISIS-like out-fit could slip in a miniaturised Tzar Bomba or too. Russia must consider and prepare for all possibilities and not be deceived by hubris.
Now I expect that Octobacto octo-pussy to return shot with a racist slur or two! But please hold on. I criticised only perceived hubris and NOT Putin.
There’s always a back and forth in a technological arms race.
The guy wearing the best of plate armor feels really good and may win for years, until he meets the guy who invented the cross-bow. Battleships used to rule the waves, and Ships of the Line before them, and Triremes before them.
yes EVER! because new weapons development requires time & resources.
the US has neither.
time – the US$ is on its death-throes and rejected worldwide
resources – sorry pindos, no more new continents to “discover” and plunder, i mean free & democratize.
well, unless u have faith in elon musk’s mars endeavors. (LOOOOOOOOOOOL)
the question now is ‘Shall we import lard or steel?’
Every single talking head ex-general, ex-CIA or official or “expert” I’ve seen on TV has clearly no understanding of the system Avangard.
They think it is a ballistic warhead.
They think it is inferior to what the US is working on.
They think it is even behind the Chinese hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic missiles.
Clearly, even though in March the nature of the weapon was presented to the world, nine months later, the US still has no understanding of the weapon or its global importance.
The best they can say is the US has a triad nuclear weapons system and can destroy anyone.
It will take the US ten years to build a missile defense system. That still would not stop these hypersonic weapons.
They are spending tens of billions trying to build one of their own. You can imagine how hard they are trying to crack into either the Russian or Chinese technology secrets in order to speed up development of their own.
Meanwhile, the US is clamoring about the Monroe Doctrine again. Seems the Russians and Chinese are infringing on the Western Hemisphere which the US owns (God gave them half the globe, don’t you know).
Meanwhile, I wish the Russian people a Happy New Year and I salute the men and women whose work in secrecy for 14 years has produced this superb weapon.
God bless Mother Russia, the last bastion of Peace-loving People who always have to be prepared for the next war. They keep us all safe from warmongering madmen and madwomen who endanger mankind with Russophobia and Hegemony.
Am totally making, massed-assumption discussion, here; what if this meteoritic mayhem isn’t really that new? Granted, there are surely advances to ablative coatings, and guidance/targeting design upgrades (or novelties); but, a re-entry ‘vehicle’, as weapon? is the achievement defensively strategic, in terms of surprise and concealment, rather than simply cutting-edge. If the West has parked payloads in space (leo), that now are sitting Peking ducks (during that one mad hour), then ground deployments look pretty up-to-date. A more interesting question, to any of the above, is why this headlines now; is the Orient now prepared to take on the Occident, outerspace style? Is this really just an injection of cleansing sanity, for the tarnished and tainted brass of the West; or is it none of these, but rather a last Hope effort, an appeal to any sane soul left standing?
Clearly, a technology that has been in R&D for decades but the US has not mastered it.
China has it in several different weapons.
Russia has it in at least one weapon system.
US has spent the money and now is pouring more into it.
It’s physics and materials problem. Those were never US strengths. They imported the brains. So, the question is do they have the people and do they have the right materials?
It is very interesting that if you look very closely at names involved in projects, Chinese have been driving American R&D. Now that China is the bogeyman to US policies, these young brilliant minds that were in R&D labs are marginalized or have been driven out or are leaving to go home and work on China’s Space and Weapons programs.
US education system is hollowed out. Without brains from overseas, the US will lag.
Physics is the sweet spot for Russia.
If you look at the last ten years of China’s Space program, you will see it is leaping into prominence.
And if corruption had not screwed up Russia’s Space program, they would be leaping also.
Existential Threat generally incentivizes nations to act in their defense. Russia and China have acted in relation to the Hegemon’s threats.
Whether the US leadership can allow itself the emotional component that they are no longer #1 in everything is problematic.
They seem obsessed and distracted by cyberwar and AI competitions.
Putin and the MOD put Russia on a path nearly two decades ago to reign supreme in several crucial weapons systems. All of those have come to fruition. Similarly, the Chinese have, since 2006, demonstrated missile technology suited for their regional security. Thus, they began well over two decades ago to cope with the persistent US hegemony in the Asia Pacific.
US dominance, full spectrum dominance, puts Russia, China, India and Iran on notice. They all are reacting to obtain weapons and technologies that will nullify US defensive and offensive systems.
Science is back as the basis for national security and sovereignty.
Education is the backbone for science.
The fierce debate inside Russia over the state of Liberal destruction of Russian educational system is crucial.
Fortunately, enough brilliant minds exist to keep Russia producing these vital systems.
US has one mad option: if they can’t remain the no. 1, they have the mean to bring everybody including themselves into nuclear destruction. Nobody are allowed to survive to reclaim this beautiful planet if they are dethroned to no. 3 or even to no. 2. Both Russia and China must combine their wisdom to manage this should the US ever want to choose this option.
Back when ‘rocketry’ was in it’s infancy, at the end of the second war Uncle Sugar made sure he got as many German brains as possible to kick start the US missile system. While at the time it was thought that US had one of the best education systems, the fact was that was true only for the upper and upper middle class, the rest of the students got a passably good education but not on the level needed to produce the brain power for cutting edge scientific, industrial and military advances.
Russia, on the other hand, pulled herself up by the boot straps after the revolution, educated two entire generations of populace in one generation and to this day produces a very good percentage of outstanding graduates from the quite large number of higher education institutes. Every parent we know works very hard to educate their children to the best of their ability and means. There will always be a percentage of students who coast through the halls of education but many, in my opinion most, Russians know their future is in their education.
There may be some destruction of the Russian education system in the ‘west’ leaning areas such as St. Pete and parts of Moskau, but by and large if you get away from those areas the system is ‘the old way’. Russian schools are not a fashion show nor is there any of the west foolishness concerning what and who you are. School is for education and the dress code, at least in this berg and the surrounding region, is strict. What you do after school is your parent’s problem but in school, you are there to learn. Period. Act up and you will have a very sad day and VCO and I have seen it up close since a large school is 100 m due north of us and the little cretins all seem to walk past our house to get there.
This education instilled in most Russians is the driving force behind the top of the line weapons and equipment of the Armed Forces. These same brains are revolutionizing Russian industry. Today Russia can build the finest machines, mechanical and technological, in the world. Unfortunately, like in many instances the Chinese, they can design and build the finest products in the world but they will build what the customer wants, in other words if the customer wants garbage, they will make garbage.
However, this education system has paid off big time with the plethora of weapons systems that are the envy of the world introduced in the last decade or so. The Kalibr system was the shocker, the game changer that stunned The West, that and the complete shut down of the Cook in the Black Sea. That set the fox amongst the chickens in Five Points and Langley and they still have not recovered from that double trauma. That one launch from little Caspian Sea, read river, boats, that impacted within one meter of their targets over a thousand kilometers away was the game changer. On that day the US Carrier fleet became obsolete akin to a sail powered ship of the line meeting a state of the art Russian destroyer.
The Cook being shut down by one unarmed Dry was the harbinger of the Kalibr system but no one in The West noticed. They’ve noticed now.
“Unfortunately, like in many instances the Chinese, they can design and build the finest products in the world but they will build what the customer wants, in other words if the customer wants garbage, they will make garbage”.
Hahaha! The Chinese always follow the no. 1 rule of business: the customer is always right. That’s how they survived. A second rule is like it: the emperor is always ‘right’. So long as they follow these two rules, they will be alright.
“Every single talking head ex-general, ex-CIA or official or “expert” I’ve seen on TV has clearly no understanding of the system Avangard.”
These are “media friendly” experts, IE: salespeople/propagandists. It’s not their job to present any serious analysis. Their job is to present america ueber alles.
1. The monetary unit in the Russian Federation shall be the rouble. Money issue shall be carried out exclusively by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Introduction and issue of other currencies in Russia shall not be allowed.
2. The protection and ensuring the stability of the rouble shall be the major task of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which it shall fulfil independently of the other bodies of state authority.
3. The system of taxes paid to the federal budget and the general principles of taxation and dues in the Russian Federation shall be fixed by the federal law.
4. State loans shall be issued according to the rules fixed by the federal law and shall be floated on a voluntary basis.
Thus, unless Yandex is covertly fooling us in translation, the CB is not linked to the Dollar, and the Dollar is not allowed as the currency of the Federation.
Also, Russia is very close to de-dollarization in trade. Most of its bilateral trade now is in local currencies, or the ruble or yuans.
Russia unloaded nearly all its US treasury bonds and has stockpiled Gold in preparation for sanction shocks and oil price fluctuations.
All done at the CB.
As a developing nation Russia needs FDI and some credit for its exporting enterprises. Thus, it must adhere to the IMF standards, WB requisites and common investment audit standards.
But even with those Western best practices to induce investment capital and cheap loans, Putin has arranged huge investments from other sovereign investment funds. China, Japan, Saudi Arabia are placing billions into Russian energy, Arctic and Far East development. Just Putin and the investors. No CB, IMF, Rothschilds, Jews, et al involved.
Get some more facts under your belt. Facts really matter.
The kindly show us the precise verbiage in the RCB’s charter. As the Central Bank they may well be required to hold dollars and every other currency in the world, but not dollars exclusively, as part of their charter, but I want to see it in the Russian Constitution. If you can show that to me, and you can show it in Russian since I seem to have an in house translator, then you will have my apologies for doubting you. I am always open to learning more about anything.
By the way, all Central Banks hold the major currencies of their trading partners. Though the trend in global trade is moving away from USD as Reserve Currency.
RMB (yuans) is now very common in cross-border trade with China.
Even the petro-dollar regime is crumbling as major oil purchases are no longer exclusively Dollar Contracts.
The Russian Central Bank can only issue an amount of roubles that matches its dollar reserves. This is a consequence of the Western influenced Central Bank Law. If the dollar is replaced as a reserve currency then I assume the RCB, and thus Russia, will still be in similar thrall.
I am wondering who owns the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) ?
Is it privately owned by shareholders like the Federal Reserve System or completely nationalized ?
The Central Bank Law, the way it was written (or influenced) by Russia’s Western “advisers” in the 1990s, ties the CBR to the dollar. No-one is disputing that the CBR issues the rouble.
Luckily I can direct you to these experts upon which any awareness, opinions and thoughts I dare deign to share, are informed by:
From “Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom” by Nikolay Starikov:
“According to the legislation, the rouble can only be issued by the Bank
of Russia. And according to the same law, it is not entitled to provide loans
to the state. How is emission organised then, how are roubles introduced
into circulation? Easily — through purchasing foreign currency at the stock
exchange.
The system works as follows:
1. Russia sells certain goods at the global market;
2. the country receives 100 dollars;
3. the Central Bank buys the dollars at the stock exchange;
4. he dollars go to the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central
Bank;
5. Russian economy gets 3000 roubles.
In other words, foreign currency can only get into the country through
the stock exchange, where it is sold and the respective amount of roubles
is ‘injected’ into Russian economy. Some sort of an unspoken parity rate
for the population is observed. The parity rate between the amount of dollars
in the gold and foreign currency reserves and the amount of roubles in
the economy. For example, oil prices grow. For the same goods Russia now
receives 110 dollars and not 100. The parity is tilted and the Central Bank
corrects it. It lowers the dollar exchange rate, buys them for less money
and injects in the economy a smaller amount of roubles per dollar. If the
oil price drops, the process is reverse: the Central Bank increases the dollar
exchange rate. And now, for each incoming dollar, more Russian currency
is issued. It is the Central Bank that watches the gross volume of roubles.
As according to the law on the Central Bank it is the governing body of the
Central bank — the Board of Directors — that makes decisions regarding
‘total volume of cash issue’.
In other words, there is a strict relation between the monetary stock
inside Russia and the dollar stock that Russia receives from the outside.
And that means that we are vulnerable. We are not fully independent. Why
does the Central bank keep the parity rate between the amount of dollars
in the gold and foreign currency reserves and the gross volume of issued roubles?
Because the Central bank controls issue of the rouble in the ‘currencyboard’ mode.
It is required because any country which is a member of the IMF is
obliged to guarantee single-step exchange of the total amount of the national
currency into dollars and pounds using its own gold and foreign currency
reserves. This rule has to be observed at any given moment. Otherwise,
a country cannot be accepted to the IMF. And without being in the IMF
one cannot be a part of the ‘civilised society’.
As a result, the Russian economy does not have as much money as
required for its proper operation but equal to the amount of dollars in the
reserves of the Central Bank.”
Starikov explains this strange state of affairs in chapter one, taking a close look at Article 2 of the Central Bank law and its implications.
“From “Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom” by Nikolay Starikov:
The system works as follows:
1. Russia sells certain goods at the global market;
2. the country receives 100 dollars;
3. the Central Bank buys the dollars at the stock exchange;
4. he dollars go to the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central
Bank;
5. Russian economy gets 3000 roubles.
In other words, foreign currency can only get into the country through
the stock exchange, where it is sold and the respective amount of roubles
is ‘injected’ into Russian economy.”
As it stands now, the Russian Armed Forces are the strongest in the world and US knows this fact. The panic withdrawal of the carriers from all over the world after the first Kalibr strikes in Syria from the little Caspian Sea ships was the death knell of carrier forces, and since the carrier forces are the keystone of US war and foreign policy, that sword is now broken and everyone knows this.
Without the much vaunted, and always fragile, carrier assets, US ain’t got nothin’ because the carriers were the forward deployment and invulnerable airfields to provide AirCap for any deployed US forces. This may have worked against Third World countries but against any real armied country, it was a doctrine bound to fail and it has failed.
The carrier ‘suite’ of missile armed cruisers, destroyers and frigates are at this time simply missile bait and the crews know this. The unbridled panic after the Cook was shut down in the Black Sea was a harbinger of what was coming and did come. War is not only bullets and missiles, in today’s armed forces Elint is just as important and the fact that a major US Navy unit was shut down to the point the coffee maker in the galley ceased operation was in affect the same as getting pole axed out of the blue. They believed their own propaganda about them stupud Russians and that little foible swam back and bit them in the oh-my-yes.
We are fully aware of the purpose from Foggy Bottom, genocide the likes of which has never been seen directed at Russia. It won’t work and SehSha knows it now. The next five years or so will be of intense interest. I have no doubts that if needs be VVP will attack but only when he has no other avenue. SehSha will attack the instant they think they can win, either convinced via delusion or false info. That, my friends, is the problem, the clowns believe their own propaganda and bravado. Pity, so many could die on both sides. The horror is that for the first time since 1860 SehSha will experience what she has visited on others all over the world for the last 100 years. No way the populace can survive that as a viable entity.
As an aside, my observations of VVP over the last 15 years tells me there’s a lot more in the goodie bag than he’s mentioned. He is no one’s fool and I’d hate to play even penny ante poker with that lad. As for deployment of the Avangard system, I would not be at all surprised if it’s already deployed. President Putin is not one to bluster and threaten, he works on fact.
Auslander
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I quite agree with Auslander’s analysis, and I would like to point out what I think follows logically. By the same arguments that show the USA’s inability to defeat a major opponent today, the defensive has gained in strength against the offensive. The USA’s armed forces have always been essentially offensive, if only because the continental USA has rarely been threatened. Whereas nations like Russia and China have focused on defence.
At a time when missiles and electronic warfare have gained a decisive advantage over aircraft carriers (and all other surface ships), as well as bombers and fighter-bombers, how would any nation hope to win a war of aggression against another nation’s territory? Faced by S-400, S-500, MiGs and Sukhois, Avangard, Sarmat, Iskander, Kinzhal, Kalibr, etc., there seems no way to gain control of the air – and without that, no assault can hope to succeed.
And let me recommend the Blue Cloud. It’s a nice sojourn into imagination and the world of canines. A fanciful story of heart and relationship, where good and evil are not clouded with lukewarm compromise.
Let Annya Koli lead you back to enchantment. Read it to the children you love.
The russians keep on making the same mistake over and over again, which is clinging to the expectation/assumption that there is some rationality left at the US command levels. I have serious doubts about that. Some factions would rather risk nuclear armageddon than give in and cool down. Too many people are just insane. To be honest, I have no idea how to calm a berserk other than shoot him
What mistake is Russia making? Avoiding an all out war with an entity that has the ability to inflict catastrophic damage on the entire country, regardless of the damage inflicted on the aggressor? I don’t see US flags flying over our little village nor this island, or over St. Petersburg, nor over Olmsk or Kamchatka.
I do see Russian flags flying in Syria, and Russian interests in Afrika, Cuba and Venezuela. I see Europe groaning under the sanctions put on Russia counting untold lost business, most of which will never return no matter how kissy they get when the sanctions are finally gone. I see an ongoing coup d’etat in US, a farce of a ‘brexit’ with UK, Italy always asking for a break from the counter sanctions with the promise of ‘maybe we can do something in the future to have them drop the sanctions against you (it is to laugh)’, Sweden in terminal melt down, Brussels going nuts trying to hold the union together, Austria quietly getting around the sanctions, Serbia in love with Russia, Norway losing one quarter of her ‘modern’ ships in a grounding accident, Brits with two 4 billion pound carriers that won’t have aircraft for another three years, Turkey buying S400’s, China training with Russian Armed Forces almost daily and also purchasing S400’s. I don’t see Russian Armed Forces going out for gender bending ‘equality’ and in the process destroying itself like nato. I don’t see Russia begging for the sanctions to be dropped. I don’t see Russian citizens homeless in make shift ‘villages’ in the streets nor do I see the ‘opiod crisis’ as in US and Europe.
Are their homeless in Russia? Of course. Are there drugs in Russia? Of course, but get caught with one joint and you could get five years. A few grams of coke and it’s ten. Dealing in illegal substances, 20. And trust me, Russian prisons are not in any way, shape or form for rehab.
Are there problems here? Oh heck yes, big problems, but all in all there are none of the societal problems with which ‘the west’ is over run with and getting worse by the day.
Looks to me like someone is doing something right in Moskau.
Aus, I still remember the day when I was walking along sidewalk in front of UN building and looking at the rows of cardboard box “homes” on the other side of the street. when suddenly the guy who was with me said: “How do you like our Moon Light Residences?”
I think most people are making the same mistake over and over regarding the USG as being irrational, mad etc, that is, on an human level, when it is quite clearly as a result of evil, i.e. on a spiritual level. The same applies as to what is going on in ukraine, and other, non-conflict areas, politically.
the americans were simply caught off guard with these recent advancement in russian missile technology. they were too presumptous that russia doesn’t have the resources to accomplish their goals and by the time reality bites in, it was too late. now they are licking their own wounds after being left behind in the hypersonic missile race!
and if i were putin, i would estimate a 5 year plan would suffice to prepare for a first strike attack on america now that russia is in the upperhand. it is a reality that america will never leave its eternal plan of destroying russia. offence suddenly is the best defense. and i wouldn’t be surprised if after sealing russian skies with the best air defense system in the world, russia will finally decimate the aggressor with a ruthless and relentless first strike until it capitulates and submit to an unconditional surrender. putin should better hurry before the americans have a fully operational hypersonic weapon. attack when the enemy is still weak.
In effect, the Russians have deployed a “prompt global strike” capability, years after it was announced as a goal, but never achieved, by the US. The speeds it travels at mean the Avangard can strike anywhere on the planet within an hour, which is the precise definition of the unachieved dream of “PGS”.
And the most interesting part of the above newsreel was the video from 2004 when VVP announced that Russia is developing precisely this capability as a response to the ABM-treaty pullout of the US. So, tell me more about how Russia has trusted the West for, oh, so many years… :D:D:D
PS. What was news in the footage was that the missile carrier vehicle deployed 3 (THREE!) separate Avangards, each of which can maneuver and travel at Mach20 to each of its targets :)
“The Tu-22M3M long-range bomber is designed to engage sea and ground targets at ranges of up to 2,200km (1,367 miles).
The older versions of the bomber still remain viable as a long-range cruise missile carrier. It is capable of delivering deadly weapons against ships and ground targets without entering the range of enemy air defenses.
Russian media reported the Backfire may also carry up to four hypersonic Kh-47 Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles.”
Thus just one bomber can take out a carrier task force, through neutralizing the carrier and its more important escorts.
“The first M3M aircraft rolled out at the Kazan Aviation Plant in August this year. The Russian military plans to upgrade half of its 60-strong Tu-22 fleet and extend its service life to at least several decades.”
I don’t like this article, though I am not suggesting, it is not mostly true. It just feeds the Military Industrial Complex in the The USA and The UK – and the psychopaths in control of it – and the same in Russia to impoverish us all…instead of doing something useful…..
Like building a decent road from the airport to the port in for example Bulgaria…
I mean even The Greeks have done that in the remotest islands in Greece. Unfortunately they have since been impoverished by the American controlled EU Dictatorship….which most of us British have voted to escape.
I have never had a problem with Russia,, never been there, though know several people have, including a friend of mine – a few years ago..She is an Irish Girl in her 60’s, who my wife and I have travelled with before…
She had already booked her ticket to Moscow, but also wanted to go to Mongolia, and stay with a family in China, via the Trans-Siberian Express ..and asked my wife and I to help her plan it…It was rather complex…but she did and loved it – a single old Irish Lady alone. What courage and charm. We knew she would have no problem with borders.
That was even before Lemmy of Motorhead (who I have also met) went to play another gig in Moscow before he, not surprisingly dropped dead. No one blamed the Russians – except maybe the vodka and coke.
Really, 2018 will be remembered as a year of marvellous success for Russia, and with the introduction of Avangard it’s only a matter of time when the West’s neoliberal rot — no longer able to rely on unchallenged coercion — starts suffocating its own system of violence and terror. Russia (and China) was supposed to be utterly destroyed, plundered, and bled white so as to provide another lease of life to the West, but Russia would not have it. Putin and Russia stir up more trouble to Western imperialism in half an hour’s time than what the entite Western Left has accomplished in two centuries.
May, Macron, Merkel, El Trumpo and their Eastern European acolytes are most convincing representatives of a decaying, decomposing social order.
once at cruising speed, can it’s trajectory be influenced? I mean are Glonass or GPS signals are able to be received by the missile through the plasma shield created by the hot gazes around it.
At what final velocity is it reentering the atmosphere and will it survive to lets say 5 km above ground. after all it is designed to destroy a target on the ground or maybe even under ground.
Surviving a reentry from space is now a technology, Russia and the USA master since half a century. but the final descend of a space capsule or a shuttle of late takes place at very low subsonic speed.
“Russia’s Aerospace Forces will get their first medium-range surface-to-air missile system S-350 Vityaz next year, the Defence Ministry said.
The troops will also be equipped with around a dozen of Pantsir-S air defence missile-gun systems and S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) long-range air defence weapons, the ministry added.
Russian troops stationed in the Khabarovsk, Leningrad, Kaliningrad, and Crimea regions as well as in the Arctic were supplied with Pantsir-S and S-400 weapons earlier this year.”
More details about this weapon:
S-350E Vityaz 50R6 surface-to-air defense missile system
“Worried at Russia and China’s technological edge, the US aims to have a hypersonic weapon by 2025, the US Navy said in a report. A fortnight later, Vladimir Putin was watching the test launch of Russia’s newest hypersonic missile.
Merely a week before the Avangard test, US Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson released a plan dubbed “A design for maintaining maritime superiority. Version 2.0.” One of the Pentagon’s top priorities for the coming years turned out to be none other than to “develop and field an offensive hypersonic weapon by 2025.”
The Pentagon boldly accused Russia and China of seeking to “accumulate power at America’s expense” by deploying “all elements of their national power to achieve their global ambitions.”
Admitting to having “no existing countermeasures” against such weapons, the US has long been nurturing plans to boost its own hypersonic strike and deterrence capabilities. In April the Air Force awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to develop a hypersonic weapon prototype, while, this month, DARPA announced it is seeking“new designs” and materials to make sure prospective hypersonic vehicles do not burn up in the atmosphere.
Another US project, dubbed ‘Glide Breaker,’ to develop an interceptor capable of neutralizing incoming hypersonic gliders, has also reportedly been in the works at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
By 2025, eh? Try a defective prototype fraudulently tested to pass a partial suite of the requirements around 2030 at 50-100% over budget. And I’m being generous here. :-D
Beside the Avanguard hypersonic glider missile, there are other headaches in the Russian asymmetric new weapon deployment pipeline. These have essentially negated the value of the largest and most expensive symbol of power projection in the US Navy toolbox, the CBG. The news i read today that up to 32 Poseidon underwater unmanned vehicles could be deployed on and by submarines of Russian Navy does not bode well for “partners” of the RF. These Poseidon can be nuclear or conventionally armed. They travel deeper, faster and more silently than boomers yet pack a whooping 2 megaton warhead and/or conventional payload. A single one of these can take out coastal Naval bases with a radioactive Tsunami and or it can sink a CBG. The effect of it detonating deep below a CBG, would be devastating to any vessel in the neighborhood. Vessels float in water due to the Archimedes principle, if the water was instantly vaporized underneath the vessel there would be no flotation effect and everything floating above sinks in a watery grave. There is no known counter to that.
Saker, you don’t mean this development:
‘Best New Year’s gift to Russia’: Putin boasts successful test of Avangard hypersonic glider
https://www.rt.com/russia/447441-avangard-hypersonic-glider-test/
do you?
No one is bombing Russia ever? Too triumphalist a statement. What about a non-state actor? An ISIS-like out-fit could slip in a miniaturised Tzar Bomba or too. Russia must consider and prepare for all possibilities and not be deceived by hubris.
Now I expect that Octobacto octo-pussy to return shot with a racist slur or two! But please hold on. I criticised only perceived hubris and NOT Putin.
There’s always a back and forth in a technological arms race.
The guy wearing the best of plate armor feels really good and may win for years, until he meets the guy who invented the cross-bow. Battleships used to rule the waves, and Ships of the Line before them, and Triremes before them.
“Ever” is a very long time.
ah so many defeatists to reeducate…
yes EVER! because new weapons development requires time & resources.
the US has neither.
time – the US$ is on its death-throes and rejected worldwide
resources – sorry pindos, no more new continents to “discover” and plunder, i mean free & democratize.
well, unless u have faith in elon musk’s mars endeavors. (LOOOOOOOOOOOL)
the question now is ‘Shall we import lard or steel?’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
spend money to feed GMO to pindo-lardasses in order to keep them pacified or
buy more F35s that choke the pilots?
Question: If US collapse, who is going to balance Russia or China?
Who says Russia/China need a ‘balance’? Last time I looked, Russia hasn’t invaded anyone in the last few days nor has China.
Auslander
Noted. Thanks. Yeah, I forgot.
I think this news makes many people worldwide happy
Every single talking head ex-general, ex-CIA or official or “expert” I’ve seen on TV has clearly no understanding of the system Avangard.
They think it is a ballistic warhead.
They think it is inferior to what the US is working on.
They think it is even behind the Chinese hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic missiles.
Clearly, even though in March the nature of the weapon was presented to the world, nine months later, the US still has no understanding of the weapon or its global importance.
The best they can say is the US has a triad nuclear weapons system and can destroy anyone.
It will take the US ten years to build a missile defense system. That still would not stop these hypersonic weapons.
They are spending tens of billions trying to build one of their own. You can imagine how hard they are trying to crack into either the Russian or Chinese technology secrets in order to speed up development of their own.
Meanwhile, the US is clamoring about the Monroe Doctrine again. Seems the Russians and Chinese are infringing on the Western Hemisphere which the US owns (God gave them half the globe, don’t you know).
Meanwhile, I wish the Russian people a Happy New Year and I salute the men and women whose work in secrecy for 14 years has produced this superb weapon.
God bless Mother Russia, the last bastion of Peace-loving People who always have to be prepared for the next war. They keep us all safe from warmongering madmen and madwomen who endanger mankind with Russophobia and Hegemony.
Am totally making, massed-assumption discussion, here; what if this meteoritic mayhem isn’t really that new? Granted, there are surely advances to ablative coatings, and guidance/targeting design upgrades (or novelties); but, a re-entry ‘vehicle’, as weapon? is the achievement defensively strategic, in terms of surprise and concealment, rather than simply cutting-edge. If the West has parked payloads in space (leo), that now are sitting Peking ducks (during that one mad hour), then ground deployments look pretty up-to-date. A more interesting question, to any of the above, is why this headlines now; is the Orient now prepared to take on the Occident, outerspace style? Is this really just an injection of cleansing sanity, for the tarnished and tainted brass of the West; or is it none of these, but rather a last Hope effort, an appeal to any sane soul left standing?
Clearly, a technology that has been in R&D for decades but the US has not mastered it.
China has it in several different weapons.
Russia has it in at least one weapon system.
US has spent the money and now is pouring more into it.
It’s physics and materials problem. Those were never US strengths. They imported the brains. So, the question is do they have the people and do they have the right materials?
It is very interesting that if you look very closely at names involved in projects, Chinese have been driving American R&D. Now that China is the bogeyman to US policies, these young brilliant minds that were in R&D labs are marginalized or have been driven out or are leaving to go home and work on China’s Space and Weapons programs.
US education system is hollowed out. Without brains from overseas, the US will lag.
Physics is the sweet spot for Russia.
If you look at the last ten years of China’s Space program, you will see it is leaping into prominence.
And if corruption had not screwed up Russia’s Space program, they would be leaping also.
Existential Threat generally incentivizes nations to act in their defense. Russia and China have acted in relation to the Hegemon’s threats.
Whether the US leadership can allow itself the emotional component that they are no longer #1 in everything is problematic.
They seem obsessed and distracted by cyberwar and AI competitions.
Putin and the MOD put Russia on a path nearly two decades ago to reign supreme in several crucial weapons systems. All of those have come to fruition. Similarly, the Chinese have, since 2006, demonstrated missile technology suited for their regional security. Thus, they began well over two decades ago to cope with the persistent US hegemony in the Asia Pacific.
US dominance, full spectrum dominance, puts Russia, China, India and Iran on notice. They all are reacting to obtain weapons and technologies that will nullify US defensive and offensive systems.
Science is back as the basis for national security and sovereignty.
Education is the backbone for science.
The fierce debate inside Russia over the state of Liberal destruction of Russian educational system is crucial.
Fortunately, enough brilliant minds exist to keep Russia producing these vital systems.
US has one mad option: if they can’t remain the no. 1, they have the mean to bring everybody including themselves into nuclear destruction. Nobody are allowed to survive to reclaim this beautiful planet if they are dethroned to no. 3 or even to no. 2. Both Russia and China must combine their wisdom to manage this should the US ever want to choose this option.
Larchmonter445
Back when ‘rocketry’ was in it’s infancy, at the end of the second war Uncle Sugar made sure he got as many German brains as possible to kick start the US missile system. While at the time it was thought that US had one of the best education systems, the fact was that was true only for the upper and upper middle class, the rest of the students got a passably good education but not on the level needed to produce the brain power for cutting edge scientific, industrial and military advances.
Russia, on the other hand, pulled herself up by the boot straps after the revolution, educated two entire generations of populace in one generation and to this day produces a very good percentage of outstanding graduates from the quite large number of higher education institutes. Every parent we know works very hard to educate their children to the best of their ability and means. There will always be a percentage of students who coast through the halls of education but many, in my opinion most, Russians know their future is in their education.
There may be some destruction of the Russian education system in the ‘west’ leaning areas such as St. Pete and parts of Moskau, but by and large if you get away from those areas the system is ‘the old way’. Russian schools are not a fashion show nor is there any of the west foolishness concerning what and who you are. School is for education and the dress code, at least in this berg and the surrounding region, is strict. What you do after school is your parent’s problem but in school, you are there to learn. Period. Act up and you will have a very sad day and VCO and I have seen it up close since a large school is 100 m due north of us and the little cretins all seem to walk past our house to get there.
This education instilled in most Russians is the driving force behind the top of the line weapons and equipment of the Armed Forces. These same brains are revolutionizing Russian industry. Today Russia can build the finest machines, mechanical and technological, in the world. Unfortunately, like in many instances the Chinese, they can design and build the finest products in the world but they will build what the customer wants, in other words if the customer wants garbage, they will make garbage.
However, this education system has paid off big time with the plethora of weapons systems that are the envy of the world introduced in the last decade or so. The Kalibr system was the shocker, the game changer that stunned The West, that and the complete shut down of the Cook in the Black Sea. That set the fox amongst the chickens in Five Points and Langley and they still have not recovered from that double trauma. That one launch from little Caspian Sea, read river, boats, that impacted within one meter of their targets over a thousand kilometers away was the game changer. On that day the US Carrier fleet became obsolete akin to a sail powered ship of the line meeting a state of the art Russian destroyer.
The Cook being shut down by one unarmed Dry was the harbinger of the Kalibr system but no one in The West noticed. They’ve noticed now.
Auslander
Author
An Incident On Simonka. Nato is invited to leave Sevastopol one way or the other.
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“Unfortunately, like in many instances the Chinese, they can design and build the finest products in the world but they will build what the customer wants, in other words if the customer wants garbage, they will make garbage”.
Hahaha! The Chinese always follow the no. 1 rule of business: the customer is always right. That’s how they survived. A second rule is like it: the emperor is always ‘right’. So long as they follow these two rules, they will be alright.
So will the Russians if they do the same…I think!
No, the Orient would rather trade with the Occident, especially now, 150 years after the Opium Wars.
L445
“Every single talking head ex-general, ex-CIA or official or “expert” I’ve seen on TV has clearly no understanding of the system Avangard.”
These are “media friendly” experts, IE: salespeople/propagandists. It’s not their job to present any serious analysis. Their job is to present america ueber alles.
Yes! May God Almighty bless Mother Russia and make prosper for the sake of His glory. May salvation in Jesus Christ spread to all Russians.
Russia at the year’s end 2018:
“We have the best weapons by far, but unfortunately our money supply is fully owned by our ‘Western Partners'”
_smr
Please prove this statement.
Auslander
I think it is to be found in the Western-written (I’m assuming) Russian Constitution, about the Central Bank of Russia and tying it to the dollar.
You might be wrong, Flopot.
From the official Russian website: http://www.constitution.ru/index.htm
The relevant Article:
http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-04.htm
Article 75
1. The monetary unit in the Russian Federation shall be the rouble. Money issue shall be carried out exclusively by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Introduction and issue of other currencies in Russia shall not be allowed.
2. The protection and ensuring the stability of the rouble shall be the major task of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which it shall fulfil independently of the other bodies of state authority.
3. The system of taxes paid to the federal budget and the general principles of taxation and dues in the Russian Federation shall be fixed by the federal law.
4. State loans shall be issued according to the rules fixed by the federal law and shall be floated on a voluntary basis.
Thus, unless Yandex is covertly fooling us in translation, the CB is not linked to the Dollar, and the Dollar is not allowed as the currency of the Federation.
Also, Russia is very close to de-dollarization in trade. Most of its bilateral trade now is in local currencies, or the ruble or yuans.
Russia unloaded nearly all its US treasury bonds and has stockpiled Gold in preparation for sanction shocks and oil price fluctuations.
All done at the CB.
As a developing nation Russia needs FDI and some credit for its exporting enterprises. Thus, it must adhere to the IMF standards, WB requisites and common investment audit standards.
But even with those Western best practices to induce investment capital and cheap loans, Putin has arranged huge investments from other sovereign investment funds. China, Japan, Saudi Arabia are placing billions into Russian energy, Arctic and Far East development. Just Putin and the investors. No CB, IMF, Rothschilds, Jews, et al involved.
Get some more facts under your belt. Facts really matter.
“Get some more facts under your belt. Facts really matter”
Yes, you really should on many a topic I might add.
Back on topic — as far as I’m aware the Russian Central Bank is constitutionally required to hold dollars.
Flopot,
The kindly show us the precise verbiage in the RCB’s charter. As the Central Bank they may well be required to hold dollars and every other currency in the world, but not dollars exclusively, as part of their charter, but I want to see it in the Russian Constitution. If you can show that to me, and you can show it in Russian since I seem to have an in house translator, then you will have my apologies for doubting you. I am always open to learning more about anything.
Auslander
We all bow to your “awareness” as embodiment of knowledge and a universal resource.
Deserving of Nobel Prize and Guinness Records, no doubt.
One more item for your awareness.
http://cbr.ru
Very informative CB of RF website.
By the way, all Central Banks hold the major currencies of their trading partners. Though the trend in global trade is moving away from USD as Reserve Currency.
RMB (yuans) is now very common in cross-border trade with China.
Even the petro-dollar regime is crumbling as major oil purchases are no longer exclusively Dollar Contracts.
The Russian Central Bank can only issue an amount of roubles that matches its dollar reserves. This is a consequence of the Western influenced Central Bank Law. If the dollar is replaced as a reserve currency then I assume the RCB, and thus Russia, will still be in similar thrall.
Larch,
I am wondering who owns the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) ?
Is it privately owned by shareholders like the Federal Reserve System or completely nationalized ?
The CBR is one of the 60 member banks of the BIS.
@Larch, Auslander
The Central Bank Law, the way it was written (or influenced) by Russia’s Western “advisers” in the 1990s, ties the CBR to the dollar. No-one is disputing that the CBR issues the rouble.
Luckily I can direct you to these experts upon which any awareness, opinions and thoughts I dare deign to share, are informed by:
From “Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom” by Nikolay Starikov:
“According to the legislation, the rouble can only be issued by the Bank
of Russia. And according to the same law, it is not entitled to provide loans
to the state. How is emission organised then, how are roubles introduced
into circulation? Easily — through purchasing foreign currency at the stock
exchange.
The system works as follows:
1. Russia sells certain goods at the global market;
2. the country receives 100 dollars;
3. the Central Bank buys the dollars at the stock exchange;
4. he dollars go to the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central
Bank;
5. Russian economy gets 3000 roubles.
In other words, foreign currency can only get into the country through
the stock exchange, where it is sold and the respective amount of roubles
is ‘injected’ into Russian economy. Some sort of an unspoken parity rate
for the population is observed. The parity rate between the amount of dollars
in the gold and foreign currency reserves and the amount of roubles in
the economy. For example, oil prices grow. For the same goods Russia now
receives 110 dollars and not 100. The parity is tilted and the Central Bank
corrects it. It lowers the dollar exchange rate, buys them for less money
and injects in the economy a smaller amount of roubles per dollar. If the
oil price drops, the process is reverse: the Central Bank increases the dollar
exchange rate. And now, for each incoming dollar, more Russian currency
is issued. It is the Central Bank that watches the gross volume of roubles.
As according to the law on the Central Bank it is the governing body of the
Central bank — the Board of Directors — that makes decisions regarding
‘total volume of cash issue’.
In other words, there is a strict relation between the monetary stock
inside Russia and the dollar stock that Russia receives from the outside.
And that means that we are vulnerable. We are not fully independent. Why
does the Central bank keep the parity rate between the amount of dollars
in the gold and foreign currency reserves and the gross volume of issued roubles?
Because the Central bank controls issue of the rouble in the ‘currencyboard’ mode.
It is required because any country which is a member of the IMF is
obliged to guarantee single-step exchange of the total amount of the national
currency into dollars and pounds using its own gold and foreign currency
reserves. This rule has to be observed at any given moment. Otherwise,
a country cannot be accepted to the IMF. And without being in the IMF
one cannot be a part of the ‘civilised society’.
As a result, the Russian economy does not have as much money as
required for its proper operation but equal to the amount of dollars in the
reserves of the Central Bank.”
Starikov explains this strange state of affairs in chapter one, taking a close look at Article 2 of the Central Bank law and its implications.
See also:
https://www.sott.net/article/290640-SOTT-EXCLUSIVE-Central-Bank-Empire-The-real-enemy-of-the-people
http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO2July2016.php
Flopot
“From “Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom” by Nikolay Starikov:
The system works as follows:
1. Russia sells certain goods at the global market;
2. the country receives 100 dollars;
3. the Central Bank buys the dollars at the stock exchange;
4. he dollars go to the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central
Bank;
5. Russian economy gets 3000 roubles.
In other words, foreign currency can only get into the country through
the stock exchange, where it is sold and the respective amount of roubles
is ‘injected’ into Russian economy.”
With all due respect, bovine scatology.
Auslander
As it stands now, the Russian Armed Forces are the strongest in the world and US knows this fact. The panic withdrawal of the carriers from all over the world after the first Kalibr strikes in Syria from the little Caspian Sea ships was the death knell of carrier forces, and since the carrier forces are the keystone of US war and foreign policy, that sword is now broken and everyone knows this.
Without the much vaunted, and always fragile, carrier assets, US ain’t got nothin’ because the carriers were the forward deployment and invulnerable airfields to provide AirCap for any deployed US forces. This may have worked against Third World countries but against any real armied country, it was a doctrine bound to fail and it has failed.
The carrier ‘suite’ of missile armed cruisers, destroyers and frigates are at this time simply missile bait and the crews know this. The unbridled panic after the Cook was shut down in the Black Sea was a harbinger of what was coming and did come. War is not only bullets and missiles, in today’s armed forces Elint is just as important and the fact that a major US Navy unit was shut down to the point the coffee maker in the galley ceased operation was in affect the same as getting pole axed out of the blue. They believed their own propaganda about them stupud Russians and that little foible swam back and bit them in the oh-my-yes.
We are fully aware of the purpose from Foggy Bottom, genocide the likes of which has never been seen directed at Russia. It won’t work and SehSha knows it now. The next five years or so will be of intense interest. I have no doubts that if needs be VVP will attack but only when he has no other avenue. SehSha will attack the instant they think they can win, either convinced via delusion or false info. That, my friends, is the problem, the clowns believe their own propaganda and bravado. Pity, so many could die on both sides. The horror is that for the first time since 1860 SehSha will experience what she has visited on others all over the world for the last 100 years. No way the populace can survive that as a viable entity.
As an aside, my observations of VVP over the last 15 years tells me there’s a lot more in the goodie bag than he’s mentioned. He is no one’s fool and I’d hate to play even penny ante poker with that lad. As for deployment of the Avangard system, I would not be at all surprised if it’s already deployed. President Putin is not one to bluster and threaten, he works on fact.
Auslander
Author
It’s Christmas, the time of peace and happiness. Here’s a joyful little story for you, and peace be with all of you.
Blue Cloud by Annya V. Koli https://saker.community/product/blue-cloud-my-life-annya-koli-pdf-novel/
I quite agree with Auslander’s analysis, and I would like to point out what I think follows logically. By the same arguments that show the USA’s inability to defeat a major opponent today, the defensive has gained in strength against the offensive. The USA’s armed forces have always been essentially offensive, if only because the continental USA has rarely been threatened. Whereas nations like Russia and China have focused on defence.
At a time when missiles and electronic warfare have gained a decisive advantage over aircraft carriers (and all other surface ships), as well as bombers and fighter-bombers, how would any nation hope to win a war of aggression against another nation’s territory? Faced by S-400, S-500, MiGs and Sukhois, Avangard, Sarmat, Iskander, Kinzhal, Kalibr, etc., there seems no way to gain control of the air – and without that, no assault can hope to succeed.
Concur with Auslander.
And let me recommend the Blue Cloud. It’s a nice sojourn into imagination and the world of canines. A fanciful story of heart and relationship, where good and evil are not clouded with lukewarm compromise.
Let Annya Koli lead you back to enchantment. Read it to the children you love.
The russians keep on making the same mistake over and over again, which is clinging to the expectation/assumption that there is some rationality left at the US command levels. I have serious doubts about that. Some factions would rather risk nuclear armageddon than give in and cool down. Too many people are just insane. To be honest, I have no idea how to calm a berserk other than shoot him
What mistake is Russia making? Avoiding an all out war with an entity that has the ability to inflict catastrophic damage on the entire country, regardless of the damage inflicted on the aggressor? I don’t see US flags flying over our little village nor this island, or over St. Petersburg, nor over Olmsk or Kamchatka.
I do see Russian flags flying in Syria, and Russian interests in Afrika, Cuba and Venezuela. I see Europe groaning under the sanctions put on Russia counting untold lost business, most of which will never return no matter how kissy they get when the sanctions are finally gone. I see an ongoing coup d’etat in US, a farce of a ‘brexit’ with UK, Italy always asking for a break from the counter sanctions with the promise of ‘maybe we can do something in the future to have them drop the sanctions against you (it is to laugh)’, Sweden in terminal melt down, Brussels going nuts trying to hold the union together, Austria quietly getting around the sanctions, Serbia in love with Russia, Norway losing one quarter of her ‘modern’ ships in a grounding accident, Brits with two 4 billion pound carriers that won’t have aircraft for another three years, Turkey buying S400’s, China training with Russian Armed Forces almost daily and also purchasing S400’s. I don’t see Russian Armed Forces going out for gender bending ‘equality’ and in the process destroying itself like nato. I don’t see Russia begging for the sanctions to be dropped. I don’t see Russian citizens homeless in make shift ‘villages’ in the streets nor do I see the ‘opiod crisis’ as in US and Europe.
Are their homeless in Russia? Of course. Are there drugs in Russia? Of course, but get caught with one joint and you could get five years. A few grams of coke and it’s ten. Dealing in illegal substances, 20. And trust me, Russian prisons are not in any way, shape or form for rehab.
Are there problems here? Oh heck yes, big problems, but all in all there are none of the societal problems with which ‘the west’ is over run with and getting worse by the day.
Looks to me like someone is doing something right in Moskau.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One, a novel of Spetznaz
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Sevastopol, The Third Defense 2013-2014
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Aus, I still remember the day when I was walking along sidewalk in front of UN building and looking at the rows of cardboard box “homes” on the other side of the street. when suddenly the guy who was with me said: “How do you like our Moon Light Residences?”
I think most people are making the same mistake over and over regarding the USG as being irrational, mad etc, that is, on an human level, when it is quite clearly as a result of evil, i.e. on a spiritual level. The same applies as to what is going on in ukraine, and other, non-conflict areas, politically.
the americans were simply caught off guard with these recent advancement in russian missile technology. they were too presumptous that russia doesn’t have the resources to accomplish their goals and by the time reality bites in, it was too late. now they are licking their own wounds after being left behind in the hypersonic missile race!
and if i were putin, i would estimate a 5 year plan would suffice to prepare for a first strike attack on america now that russia is in the upperhand. it is a reality that america will never leave its eternal plan of destroying russia. offence suddenly is the best defense. and i wouldn’t be surprised if after sealing russian skies with the best air defense system in the world, russia will finally decimate the aggressor with a ruthless and relentless first strike until it capitulates and submit to an unconditional surrender. putin should better hurry before the americans have a fully operational hypersonic weapon. attack when the enemy is still weak.
In effect, the Russians have deployed a “prompt global strike” capability, years after it was announced as a goal, but never achieved, by the US. The speeds it travels at mean the Avangard can strike anywhere on the planet within an hour, which is the precise definition of the unachieved dream of “PGS”.
And the most interesting part of the above newsreel was the video from 2004 when VVP announced that Russia is developing precisely this capability as a response to the ABM-treaty pullout of the US. So, tell me more about how Russia has trusted the West for, oh, so many years… :D:D:D
PS. What was news in the footage was that the missile carrier vehicle deployed 3 (THREE!) separate Avangards, each of which can maneuver and travel at Mach20 to each of its targets :)
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Return of carrier-killer bomber: Upgraded Tu-22 makes maiden flight in Russia
https://www.rt.com/news/447597-russia-tu22-maiden-flight/
“The Tu-22M3M long-range bomber is designed to engage sea and ground targets at ranges of up to 2,200km (1,367 miles).
The older versions of the bomber still remain viable as a long-range cruise missile carrier. It is capable of delivering deadly weapons against ships and ground targets without entering the range of enemy air defenses.
Russian media reported the Backfire may also carry up to four hypersonic Kh-47 Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles.”
Thus just one bomber can take out a carrier task force, through neutralizing the carrier and its more important escorts.
“The first M3M aircraft rolled out at the Kazan Aviation Plant in August this year. The Russian military plans to upgrade half of its 60-strong Tu-22 fleet and extend its service life to at least several decades.”
I don’t like this article, though I am not suggesting, it is not mostly true. It just feeds the Military Industrial Complex in the The USA and The UK – and the psychopaths in control of it – and the same in Russia to impoverish us all…instead of doing something useful…..
Like building a decent road from the airport to the port in for example Bulgaria…
I mean even The Greeks have done that in the remotest islands in Greece. Unfortunately they have since been impoverished by the American controlled EU Dictatorship….which most of us British have voted to escape.
I have never had a problem with Russia,, never been there, though know several people have, including a friend of mine – a few years ago..She is an Irish Girl in her 60’s, who my wife and I have travelled with before…
She had already booked her ticket to Moscow, but also wanted to go to Mongolia, and stay with a family in China, via the Trans-Siberian Express ..and asked my wife and I to help her plan it…It was rather complex…but she did and loved it – a single old Irish Lady alone. What courage and charm. We knew she would have no problem with borders.
That was even before Lemmy of Motorhead (who I have also met) went to play another gig in Moscow before he, not surprisingly dropped dead. No one blamed the Russians – except maybe the vodka and coke.
“Motorhead – Live @ Moscow 2014 (FULL) HD”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M31aHVci_bQ
Lemmy was born in Wales, UK, and was a really nice friendly guy.
Tony
Really, 2018 will be remembered as a year of marvellous success for Russia, and with the introduction of Avangard it’s only a matter of time when the West’s neoliberal rot — no longer able to rely on unchallenged coercion — starts suffocating its own system of violence and terror. Russia (and China) was supposed to be utterly destroyed, plundered, and bled white so as to provide another lease of life to the West, but Russia would not have it. Putin and Russia stir up more trouble to Western imperialism in half an hour’s time than what the entite Western Left has accomplished in two centuries.
May, Macron, Merkel, El Trumpo and their Eastern European acolytes are most convincing representatives of a decaying, decomposing social order.
China had just successfully tested the S-400 bought from Russia.
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/china-successfully-tests-russias-s-400-missile-air-defence-system-3328661.html
once at cruising speed, can it’s trajectory be influenced? I mean are Glonass or GPS signals are able to be received by the missile through the plasma shield created by the hot gazes around it.
At what final velocity is it reentering the atmosphere and will it survive to lets say 5 km above ground. after all it is designed to destroy a target on the ground or maybe even under ground.
Surviving a reentry from space is now a technology, Russia and the USA master since half a century. but the final descend of a space capsule or a shuttle of late takes place at very low subsonic speed.
Russian Aerospace Forces to Get S-350 Vityaz Air Defence Weapon in 2019
https://sputniknews.com/military/201812301071102406-russia-aerospace-forces-weapons/
“Russia’s Aerospace Forces will get their first medium-range surface-to-air missile system S-350 Vityaz next year, the Defence Ministry said.
The troops will also be equipped with around a dozen of Pantsir-S air defence missile-gun systems and S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) long-range air defence weapons, the ministry added.
Russian troops stationed in the Khabarovsk, Leningrad, Kaliningrad, and Crimea regions as well as in the Arctic were supplied with Pantsir-S and S-400 weapons earlier this year.”
More details about this weapon:
S-350E Vityaz 50R6 surface-to-air defense missile system
https://www.armyrecognition.com/russia_russian_missile_system_vehicle_uk/s-350e_s-350_vityaz_50r6_air_defense_missile_data_pictures.html
I have no comment whatsoever about these 2 links but read and watch them one should.
https://youtu.be/nZAgRLBEAjs
http://www.chemtrailplanet.com/DEW.html
US Navy hoping for hypersonic missiles ‘by 2025’ as Putin WATCHES Russia’s Avangard glider fly
https://www.rt.com/news/447800-russia-avangard-us-hypersonic/
“Worried at Russia and China’s technological edge, the US aims to have a hypersonic weapon by 2025, the US Navy said in a report. A fortnight later, Vladimir Putin was watching the test launch of Russia’s newest hypersonic missile.
Merely a week before the Avangard test, US Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson released a plan dubbed “A design for maintaining maritime superiority. Version 2.0.” One of the Pentagon’s top priorities for the coming years turned out to be none other than to “develop and field an offensive hypersonic weapon by 2025.”
The Pentagon boldly accused Russia and China of seeking to “accumulate power at America’s expense” by deploying “all elements of their national power to achieve their global ambitions.”
Admitting to having “no existing countermeasures” against such weapons, the US has long been nurturing plans to boost its own hypersonic strike and deterrence capabilities. In April the Air Force awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to develop a hypersonic weapon prototype, while, this month, DARPA announced it is seeking“new designs” and materials to make sure prospective hypersonic vehicles do not burn up in the atmosphere.
Another US project, dubbed ‘Glide Breaker,’ to develop an interceptor capable of neutralizing incoming hypersonic gliders, has also reportedly been in the works at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
By 2025, eh? Try a defective prototype fraudulently tested to pass a partial suite of the requirements around 2030 at 50-100% over budget. And I’m being generous here. :-D
Beside the Avanguard hypersonic glider missile, there are other headaches in the Russian asymmetric new weapon deployment pipeline. These have essentially negated the value of the largest and most expensive symbol of power projection in the US Navy toolbox, the CBG. The news i read today that up to 32 Poseidon underwater unmanned vehicles could be deployed on and by submarines of Russian Navy does not bode well for “partners” of the RF. These Poseidon can be nuclear or conventionally armed. They travel deeper, faster and more silently than boomers yet pack a whooping 2 megaton warhead and/or conventional payload. A single one of these can take out coastal Naval bases with a radioactive Tsunami and or it can sink a CBG. The effect of it detonating deep below a CBG, would be devastating to any vessel in the neighborhood. Vessels float in water due to the Archimedes principle, if the water was instantly vaporized underneath the vessel there would be no flotation effect and everything floating above sinks in a watery grave. There is no known counter to that.