{"id":351635,"date":"2018-03-10T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=351635"},"modified":"2018-03-10T22:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T21:32:34","slug":"putin-explains-russias-new-weapons-cant-stopped-abms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/putin-explains-russias-new-weapons-cant-stopped-abms\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Explains Why Russia\u2019s New Weapons Can\u2019t Be Stopped by ABMs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

In a \u201cRussia Insight\u201d TV interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin that was uploaded to youtube with English subtitles on March 10th<\/span><\/a>, NBC\u2019s Megyn Kelly asked him why America\u2019s ABMs wouldn\u2019t be able to knock out Russia\u2019s new missiles. He answered (16:40): \u201cWe have created a set of new strategic weapons that do not follow ballistic trajectories, and the anti-missile defence systems are powerless against them. This means that the U.S. taxpayers\u2019 money has been wasted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A ballistic missile \u2014 the types of missiles at which an ABM or anti-ballistic missile is directed \u2014 is not just any type of missile, but instead is a missile with a certain type of trajectory, which goes above the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and then comes down largely using the force of gravity instead of continuously under propulsion and strict control. Putin is saying that Russia\u2019s new missiles, which are designed so as not to be adhering to the flight-paths that ballistic<\/i> missiles do, can\u2019t be hit by anti-ballistic missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Putin referred to Russia\u2019s largest new missile as \u201cVoyevoda.\u201d The missile\u2019s manufacturer posts online about it, “33 launches in all were conducted, 97.4% of them successful.”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

She then asked him whether these weapons will be used only if Russia comes under a nuclear attack, or against any attack; he answered it would be either a nuclear attack \u201cor a conventional attack on the Russian Federation, given that it jeopardizes the state\u2019s existence.\u201d He implied that if an ally of Russia gets attacked, Russia will respond only with non<\/i>-nuclear forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, he volunteered to say, in response to a question about what the issues would be that Russia would want formal negotiations with the U.S., that, \u201ctoday, when we are acquiring weapons that can easily breach all anti-ballistic missile systems, we no longer consider the reduction of ballistic missiles and warheads to be important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She asked whether the new weapons he was referring to could be \u201cpart of the discussion,\u201c and he said they \u201cshould, of course, be included in the grand total.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This interview continued with non-nuclear matters, such as the accusations that he had interfered in America\u2019s 2016 Presidential contest, or tried to. His answers were very direct, but viewers who support the ongoing Russiagate investigations will probably not believe his answers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As regards the weapons-issues, there is posted online a brilliant technical description<\/span><\/a> of the types of engineering issues that the Russians have been developing for decades, in which they\u2019ve led the world and in which their lead has been widening, and which were behind what Putin was speaking about in his March 1st speech. Though that technical description was a reader-comment, instead of an article, it was article-length, and makes the issues clear; and the article that it was commenting upon was itself brilliant: and it links to an earlier brilliant article by Andrei Martyanov; so, all three of those together enable a pretty clear understanding of what\u2019s involved in Russia\u2019s biggest strategic-weapons breakthroughs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse In a \u201cRussia Insight\u201d TV interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin that was uploaded to youtube with English subtitles on March 10th, NBC\u2019s Megyn Kelly asked him why America\u2019s ABMs wouldn\u2019t be able to knock out Russia\u2019s new missiles. He answered (16:40): \u201cWe have created a set of new strategic weapons that do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":351636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[30,1036,543,524,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-351635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-putin","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}