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Title: Putin Trolls Trump, Offers to Sell Technology Which Has Made Most of US Military Obsolete
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URL Source: https://russia-insider.com/en/milit ... t-us-military-obsolete/ri27577
Published: Sep 6, 2019
Author: Moon of Alabama
Post Date: 2019-09-06 09:16:40 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 1674
Comments: 32

This is some high class trolling by Russia's President Vladimir Putin:

Putin said he offered U.S. President Donald Trump in a recent phone call the chance to buy one of the hypersonic nuclear weapons Moscow is developing. He said Trump spurned the offer and replied that Washington was making its own.

Hypersonic weapons fly faster than Mach 5 or five times the speed of sound. Their high speed leaves little warning time for the target. There are currently no practical defenses against them.

While the U.S. spent an enormous amount on developing large aircraft carriers, 'stealth' airplanes and useless missile defenses, Russia spent much less to developed weapons that can defeat all three. Carriers are today, at least for Russia, India and China, not threats but large and juicy targets. Kh-47M2 Kinzhal Mach 12 capable missile carried by a MIG-31

Trump is wrong in claiming that the U.S. makes its own hypersonic weapons. While the U.S. has some in development none will be ready before 2022 and likely only much later. Hypersonic weapons are a Soviet/Russian invention. The ones Russia now puts into service are already the third generation. U.S. development of such missiles is at least two generations behind Russia's.

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That Russian radar can 'see' stealth aircraft has been known since 1999 when a Yugoslav army unit shot down a U.S. F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft. Russian air and missile defense proved in Syria that it can defeat mass attacks by drones as well as by cruise missiles. U.S.-made air and missile defense in Saudi Arabia fails to take down even the primitive missiles Houthi forces fire against it.

The new weapons Russia announced in March 2018 make strategic missile defense useless.

The U.S. military and its weapons are regularly hyped in 'western' media. But it has long been clear to (non-U.S.) experts that U.S. military technology is not superior to that of other countries. In several important fields Russian, Chinese and even Indian weapons have much better capabilities. The reason is simple. U.S. weapons are not developed or built with a real strategic need in mind. They don't get developed for achieving the most effect in an existential war against a capable enemy but to create profit.

The last is probably the only thing Trump knows about them.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

The problem for the US is that you can't be a world's policemen or empire by creating missiles because you can't point strategic missiles at other countries and tell them what to do. That requires actual military presence in the form of bases and naval fleets, which probably do more to bribe these other countries through money spent on these bases and fleets than do the threat of military action.

Russia has far less money to spend and has been on the defensive since the fall of the USSR. So for them, imposing their will on the world has not been a realistic goal since the USSR fell. Instead, they've gone frugal, out of necessity, and that means focusing on tech that is largely defensive, and that means anti-aircraft systems like the S-400 & S-500 series, nuclear powered strategic nukes, nuclear bomb submarine drones with a 3000 mile range and 200 MPH torpedoes.

The next hot war with Russia will show that US Naval task forces are obsolete, as much as or moreso than Pearl harbor proved battleships obsolete. The US is still figuring that out as the military industrial complex willingly turns a blind eye to this reality as they rake in enormous earnings and congressmen go along for the votes seeing jobs for their constituents.

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#7. To: Pinguinite (#1)

Russia has far less money to spend

But they seem to be building a better product than the military junk our contractors have been saddling us with.

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