On 21 October, the Russian General Staff successfully tested a 9M730 Burevestnik cruise missile. This weapon was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his speech to Parliament on March 1, 2018. Seven years later, it is finally operational.
We wrote at the time: "Russia has a nuclear-powered engine (i.e., a nuclear power plant) that has been miniaturized to the point where it can be equipped with a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Since cruise missiles have an unpredictable trajectory and this engine has an almost infinite range, they are invincible for the moment." [1]
☞ The commissioning of the 9M730 Burevestnik paves the way for the Status-6 Poseidon underwater drones. It reverses the balance of power since, from now on, Russia has a lead over its competitors. It is no longer militarily on an equal footing with the United States, but is ahead of them. During the war in Syria, Russia’s new conventional weapons proved superior to those of NATO. During the war in Ukraine, Russia was able to mass-produce them. At the time of writing, it has become the world’s leading conventional and nuclear power.
☞ The United States responded to the test by announcing new nuclear tests and withdrawing its troops from Europe’s Eastern Front.
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Military Weapons America Does Not Have But Russia Does The US spends $1.51 trillion on its military every year. That would include not just the DOD but the money spent by 6 other agencies that cover the rest of our military spending. For example, the Dept of Energy covers nuclear weapons. Russia is raising its annual military budget to $125 billion due to the ongoing war in the Ukraine. The US has a large corruption factor making its weapons more expensive and less effective. Dr Mark Skidmore found that $17 trillion had gone missing from the HUD and DOD budgets from 1998 to 2015. A funny story from Dr Skidmore. One day the US Treasury called up the Dept of the Army and said we are giving you a check for $800 billion to cover up the holes in your missing money. (This was only for the Army, not the entire Pentagon) Guess what happened? The generals lost the $800 billion!
So let's see what Russia has that we don't. 1) Oreshnik IRBM. It has 6 MIRVs which in turn have 6 submunitions each for a total of 36. Those submunitions hit the ground at Mach 10. It digs deep into the ground and releases heat at 7,232 degrees F (4,000 C.) It melts steel and concrete. Russia used one of these on an industrial area in the Ukraine. There was nothing left but dust. Homes 2 blocks away were so shaken that they looked like they had been hit by an 8.0 earthquake. 2) Avangard is a Mach 27 ICBM with a 2,000 kilogram warhead. Mach 27 is about 20,000 MPH. (32,000 KMH.) That's a lot of kinetic energy released on one target. 3) Mach 12 Kinzhal. It is released from a jet. It digs a hole 98 feet (30 meters) deep where its target used to be. One Kinzhal can sink an aircraft carrier. 4) Mach 9 Zircon cruise missile. The US and UK are still using subsonic cruise missiles at Mach 0.7. Russia gave the Zircon cruise missile to Iran. They are busy building and sharing them with their friends in Venezuela. 5) Krasnopol is a rocket artillery. It can hit a MOVING TARGET at 76 kilometers (47.22 miles.) The rocket artillery projectile is fired. Halfway to the goal an Orlan drone fixes a laser on the target and guides the incoming missile to its destination, destroying it. 6) Lancet 3 loitering drone. It has no human operator. It has thermal imaging. It uses AI to evaluate targets. Lancet 3 operates as part of a swarm, identifying targets and destroying them. They communicate with each other. The Russians usually prefer swarms of 5 Lancet drones. 7) Murmansk BN is a 35 meter high tower using Electronic Warfare to disrupt NATO communications, radar and guidance systems. When new NATO weapons were introduced into the Ukraine, they hit their targets over 50% of the time. After 3 months, Russian Electronic Warfare reduced that to less than 8%. 8) The S-500 .It has an operational range of up to 600 km for anti-ballistic missile roles and 500 km for air defense, with the capability to engage targets at altitudes as high as 180–200 km The US Patriot II is inferior to the old Soviet S-300 of 1978.
9) Glide bombs. Russia has been dropping at least 110 Glide bombs on the Ukrainians every day. These had been dropped 15 kilometers distant from the target with payloads of 500, 1,000 and 1,500 Kgs (1,100, 2,200 and 3,300 pound) bombs. They also improved the Glide bombs so they can be released up to 90 Kms distant. US JDAMs are sparse due to the extreme expense. Glide bombs are cheap.
10) SU-35s and Su 57s. Both come with the R-37 air-to-air missile. It has 2 versions. One has a longer range of 400 kilometers. The US DOD had thought that American jets do not need to be able to do dog fighting because they would rely on long range missiles. These are the same geniuses who thought air defense was not important because we had air supremacy! So F-16s have air-to-air missiles that can take down an SU-35 at 50 miles. But the SU-35 is firing missiles at 400 Kilometers range (268 miles) distant
Russia is now building 2 million drones a year which combined with their superior air defenses and air supremacy plus the Oreshnik makes a conventional land war against Russia unthinkable.
Continuing the war in the Ukraine will only enrich US arms makers at the expense of killing every last male in the country.