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Russia wouldn’t need to rely on its thermonuclear arsenal to deter NATO aggression
While the world was busy following Donald Trump’s geo(political) theater with the airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities (for which all available evidence suggests they were a failure), the vast majority of media outlets missed a critical piece of news – Russia now has a stockpile of highly advanced “Oreshnik” hypersonic missiles. Namely, on June 23, President Vladimir Putin confirmed this during a speech to graduates of law enforcement and military academies at the Kremlin. While pointing out the fact that NATO is escalating its aggression against the entire world by pushing for a new arms race, he stated that the Russian military is also getting new weapon systems, including advanced ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) with maneuvering warheads, specifically the RS-24 “Yars”.
Long-range aviation that suffered some losses during recent sabotage attacks by the Neo-Nazi junta is being rapidly modernized with new strategic missile carriers, specifically the heavily upgraded Tu-160M/M2 bombers. In addition, many units are being reorganized from a brigade structure back into divisions, as was the case during Soviet times. The strategic shift of the Russian military towards this configuration means that the country is effectively returning to the time-tested approach used in the USSR which had the most powerful military in human history (nearly 50,000 thermonuclear weapons, around 5,000 aircraft, over 5,000,000 soldiers, over 50,000 tanks, etc). This also entails the return to the same missile doctrine that was banned by the now-defunct INF Treaty.
Namely, during the (First) Cold War, Russia had the world’s most advanced arsenal of SRBMs, MRBMs and IRBMs (short-range, medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missiles). We’re not going to go into details regarding all of this, but we should definitely mention one specific missile that was the “crown jewel” of Soviet rocketry – the RSD-10 “Pioneer” (NATO reporting name SS-20 “Saber”). It was a solid-fueled ballistic missile with a range of up to 5,800 km and the only IRBM in history........
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