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Russia to deploy new hypersonic missile systems
RIA Novosti ^ | 16:46 | 27/ 09/ 2005

Posted on 09/27/2005 9:21:27 PM PDT by eks41

MOSCOW, September 27 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia would deploy new hypersonic missile systems that would be virtually invulnerable to enemy defenses.

"We are developing and will deploy new strategic high-precision systems that have no rivals across the globe. These hypersonic systems will be capable of changing the course and altitude. They will be practically invulnerable, including to air defense systems," the president said speaking on live television and radio.

Commenting on the president's statement, an air defense expert, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Putin must have meant state-of-the-art air defense systems, or "weapons of the future" that specialists and researchers had been working on for a long time.

The expert added that the new system would combine the functions of air defense, missile defense and space defense.

The expert said the Russian army already had sea- and land-based missile complexes such as Bulava and Topol-M.

Putin also said that Russia would continue providing its army with mobile missile systems, state-of-the-art tanks, new and modernized air defense systems.

He added that last year Russia overcame an important psychological barrier when "allocations for army re-equipment topped the $5-billion profits from arms exports," while only a few years ago, Russia did not buy anything for the army.

"A great deal has been done in the past few years to restore the defense industry's financial health," Putin said, adding this included debt settlements and jobs.

He also said that expansion to foreign markets was a way to support Russia's defense sector financially. "If our specialists make it to foreign markets and uphold our interests there, it will be a very good job," the president said.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Technical
KEYWORDS: arms; bulava; dictatorship; missiles; putin; rasputin2; russia; topol
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I agree.

Wolf
61 posted on 09/28/2005 6:44:42 AM PDT by RunningWolf (U.S. Army Veteran.....75-78)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Russian women are smart and beautiful. Just thought I'd let you know :-)

I agree.


62 posted on 09/28/2005 6:49:24 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (Hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative loaded with vitriol about everything liberal.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Russian women are smart and beautiful. Just thought I'd let you know :-)

You're at least half-right ;-)

63 posted on 09/28/2005 6:52:05 AM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

Perhaps a photo of Maria Sharapova would have been more appropriate. She's beautiful and SHE WINS unlike Kornikova.


64 posted on 09/28/2005 7:01:56 AM PDT by garyhope
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To: eks41

- - - and they are pointed at whom?


65 posted on 09/28/2005 7:04:59 AM PDT by RoadTest (Not "global warming" but global building is increasing hurricane suffering. - WSJ)
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To: hgro
The Russians couldn't even defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Taliban was defeated by the Russian (and Iranian) clients from Northern Alliance with American help. So it was a joint US/Russia/Iran venture :)

Soviet Union (with Russia being the largest part of it) was bogged down for several years in Afghanistan because the insurgents were getting help from USA. (Same way as Viet Cong was getting help from Soviets and China).

Usually guerrillas need help from outside, unless they have very strong support in large local population.

66 posted on 09/28/2005 7:08:21 AM PDT by A. Pole (George Orwell: "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.")
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To: eks41

" Actually the biggest arms seller is... the USA. Russia is the second."

Thanks for the correction. Basic point stands, though.


67 posted on 09/28/2005 7:16:02 AM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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To: Red6

The latest russian tank is the T-90. The Indians have bought it.

One of my frat bros told me that they defeated Russian tanks with 25mm rounds in DS1.


68 posted on 09/28/2005 7:22:30 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: eks41

Youe English is better than our Russian.


69 posted on 09/28/2005 7:23:18 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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70 posted on 09/28/2005 7:29:24 AM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: eks41
Good Morning! Well, it's morning where I'm at.

And your shuttle, is um, stranded in some third world country?

71 posted on 09/28/2005 7:39:03 AM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (Looking out my window, I see the surf is up. Hmm. Free Republic vs. Tasty Surf.. Tough decision..)
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To: clee1
Their Navy is rusting/sinking at their moorings; they don't have the technical/economic abilities to tap their enormous oil reserves, etc. etc.
We are supposed to believe that they can field an advanced (and expensive) missile system? Don't make me gag.


typical case of penis envy. they want to have bigger and better weapons than the US so they'll defund everything else and concentrate solely on r&d of weapons.
72 posted on 09/28/2005 7:39:17 AM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: RunningWolf

Actually they did determine what punched through. It was in the Army Times. After most hits there is an investigation of what it was that was shot at us. It can actually be determined quite accurately through the tell tail signs.

Iraq used Russian doctrine, was trained largely by Russian advisors, the T72M1 tanks they had were the same year of production as the M1A1s they were facing. Weapons like the RPG22 and RPG7VR are on the battlefield there. As I stated, the NEED to minimize the impact of Iraq is necessary for most who hold onto your position. OK, lets look at Serbia, Buuuuuut wait, that don’t count either, right? OK, lets look at Israel with M60 tanks, TOW, and some other systems against their neighbors. Sure, this is no good example either. OK, lets look at the RUSSIANS themselves as they go into Chechnya in TWO separate wars. T80 tanks destroyed by burning mattresses thrown from buildings onto their rear deck, tanks blowing their turret by RPGs attached to broom handles.

Yes, the T72 and all it’s clones are “JUNK”. External mounted fuel tank on the right hull top, outside of armor. Internal open storage of ammunition in a carrousel………….. are DESIGN FLAWS inherent to this tank. The armor is poor at best. The thermals suck, the stab. is no good, when the tank burns the crew has to abandon the vehicle near immediately, the laser range finder half the time is pointing wrong and is not bore sighted with the gun, the 125mm is limited in penetrator length because of the autoloader design which has been known to fail. The tank has a side exhaust and spews soot, VERY visible with thermals. You can make a “terd” look good on paper. The T72 is just that. Junk which looks cool and if you try real hard you can make it look good on paper. You can drive it on some track and jump it a little, that’ll impress people. But in combat this tank is not something you want to be in.

M113. First Aluminum armored APC in the world. This allows for lighter weight by 20% of steel, less spall if penetrated and since Aluminum (5083) is stiffer you have less frame/structural members required to support the vehicle (Less bars and framing running through cabin-large open space). The M113 WILL stop 762x51, M80 ball. I personally know this since one of our 113s was accidentally lit up at about 50 meters with a M240. It will take 152mm air burst. In terms of protection the M113 offers MORE than a BTR50, 60 or 70; more than a BMP1 or 2. It’s an amphibian, highly capable in bad terrain (better than M1 even because of it’s low ground pressure). Where do you come up with this notion that the M113 is considered “junk”? This is a design from the FIFTIES, and it’s STILL a good taxi cab on the battle field.

MIG17? Ever since Korea our air superiority has NEVER been in question other than in some Vladimir’s “Magic Mig” homepage. And even in Korea we ended up gaining superiority. In Vietnam we had an OVER 10:1 kill ratio in our advantage. The F15 is 102:0. The F4 is still in service in Korea, Germany, Israel, Japan………. The MIG 21 didn’t even have real radar on board, and that was it’s worst rival! The MIG 21 was their main fighter until the mid-late 80s! That’s the Russians themselves I’m speaking of. You know, they can talk all the T80, T90, Blackeagle they want. Reality is that the numbers of tanks and type IS DECLARED and mutually INSPECTED by DTRA on our side. They know what we have and we know what they have. And it ain’t a bunch of T90s! Which by the way is STILL just a T72 on steroids.

While a 13 year old kid in Somalia with an AK is dangerous, it does not make him “well equipped”. You give any enemy respect. Every thing you may fight you take serious and don’t approach with a “I don’t care” attitude. However, the Warsaw Pact and even Russia today is largely “Junk” when it comes to their military equipment. Who can’t remember all the wonders of Soviet arms we were told years ago? Well, they themselves ruffled their feathers. They tried to show themselves as bigger than they were. With limited knowledge of some of these systems we grossly overestimated some of its capabilities; in fact the Soviet Unions capabilities as a whole were far over rater. In 1989 after the wall fell it became apparent what the “truth” was. Officers were peddling off Soviet military equipment to make a buck and reports of TB outbreaks in the Russian Army quickly became common knowledge. We saw them fail miserably in Chechnya and then try it again a few years later where they managed to win but at the cost of another 5000 soldiers against a ragtag enemy which of course was a lot bigger and more fierce than what we have in Iraq (sarcasm which is a “bad” example for the meddle of Russian style gear). Their track record in Afghanistan was one of miserable failure as well. Half their ships are rusting away, that is if they’re not cleaning them up for a sale to China or someone else.

Fact: The T55 was still being built in the DDR when the wall fell in 1989! That is the reality out there. The T72 didn’t get it’s first thermals until the mid 80s. We were using thermals on the M60A3 already, and these thermals were clearer than what they put in their tank TEN years later! Just look at their personal equipment. The Pro-mask, workmanship of radios that bleed into frequencies, dud rate of their ATGMs………….. Their stuff is simply not that exceptional even when the “idea” is really good..

Sometimes a simple answer is the best answer. Sometimes more expensive does not equate to better. However, in the Russian’s case it’s their limited technological capabilities, their manufacturing base and what they can afford to have built and fielded. Their stuff simply is “cheap”. It’s shoddily built (poor welds for example which you can see on their tanks), primitive in many aspects (i.e. electronics) and is designed for mass production at low costs. Look at the bayonet they have with a blade that’s stamped sheet metal. It’s all cheap! Cheap boots, cheap rifle, cheap tank. I suggest you look at a MIG 29 up close once. Look at the rivets sticking out from the skin. CHEEAAP. Look at the inside of the big Antanov transporter. The wood floors in this plane are no value adding extra! Special alloy flooring, nitrogen fire suppression for the fuel system, engines like on a C17… all are not to be found. Look at the cockpit of a NEW SU27! Steam gauges everywhere! Did you know they had vacuum tubes on some fighters into the late 80s! VACUUM TUBES! Their stuff is made to cost little, easy to mass produce and it’s manufactured so that they can build it using their industrial capacity. Hint: Russia is no major chip manufacturer, they are no major car manufacturer, they don’t have the IT sector cornered.

All things considered the Russians do amazing things with mechanical means because they lack the digitization. Some of the “ideas” they have are novel and revolutionary! They had the FIRST IFV the FIRST autoloader and so on. But even when new, these systems were limited by how they were built, the technology that went into them. Don’t confuse a good “concept” with a good “product” that is made to low tolerances, using special alloys etc. Like it or not- cheap “Junk”. Russian hardened aircraft shelter = mound of sand, poor concrete over top, dig out sand. No, it does not hold up with the shelters you saw all over Germany, Great Britain and elsewhere in Europe.

There are TWO reasons why people buy Russian equipment:

1. No one else will sell them that.

2. It’s cheap.

3. It’s also easy for these nations to maintain/sustain this equipment. Diesel engine T72 vs. turbine on M1. Digital fire control vs.

The AK is a perfect example of Russian military hardware. Cheap, stamped out of cheap metal it crudely gets the job done. Is it NOT on par with its Western counterparts. And why does every little banana republic have them? They can build them easily without needing to cast aluminum or the Russians / China will sell them, and did I mention they are CHEAP? Their body armor- cheap. Their web gear- cheap. If you doubt what I say, maybe you should physically look at it once instead of looking at it on the web or in a book. Take a look at their tank track, the road wheels etc on a tank. It’s all made to be “cheap”. Get the picture?

Red6


73 posted on 09/28/2005 1:00:53 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Red6
Hey Red6 thanks for the input. You have a whole lot of material there. I have not compare the hardware like you. I am not wedded to any wholesale defense of either. Thanks for your writing, its good.

How cheap it is, how junk it is.. here is where we are speaking the same talk

--While a 13 year old kid in Somalia with an AK is dangerous, it does not make him “well equipped”. You give any enemy respect.--Sometimes a simple answer is the best answer. Sometimes more expensive does not equate to better--

Now about the M113, when I served in the mid 70's (and was only the oath away from serivng 1970), none of the guys liked the M113, yes it would stop 7.62, but 50 would pass thru one wall.. then bounce around inside, the compartment was a nice people holder for the land mine to punch thru, so everyone rode on top.

You have to much there for me! Well all for now,

Wolf
74 posted on 09/28/2005 1:38:14 PM PDT by RunningWolf (U.S. Army Veteran.....75-78)
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To: DFX fan; ProudVet77
Hey thanks DFX, bring more info, intriguing stuff.

About your question I cant say, but a joint Russia India colalbortion cannot be ruled out. Also this kind of technology is not bleeding edge any more.

Maybe Red6 and Proudvet77 can have something to say.

Wolf
76 posted on 09/28/2005 3:10:44 PM PDT by RunningWolf (U.S. Army Veteran.....75-78)
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To: Rebelbase

http://www.buran.ru/htm/molniya.htm


77 posted on 09/28/2005 6:46:26 PM PDT by klpt
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To: Rebelbase
I'm still doubtful that Buran "was better" than the shuttle
Don't forget that Buran was created in the end of 80s against shuttles creates in 70s. So newer technologies were used.
And why buran is (sorry, WAS) more progressive: 1) Unlike the US Shuttle, the Energia basic core and strap-on system could also be used as an independent rocket in its own right due to modular design; 2) a larger payload of 30 tons into orbit compared to the 25-ton maximum of the US Shuttle; 3) a pair of jet engines to the aft end of their orbiter so that the final stage of landing could be performed under power. By contrast, the US orbiter is unpowered and must glide to its landing; 4) Compared to the American orbiter, maximum crew size was increased from seven to ten; 5) Buran could fly both manned and unmanned. Its only flight was under completely automatic control.
78 posted on 09/28/2005 9:13:04 PM PDT by eks41
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To: RunningWolf

No nothing about this system, so I can't say much. Sorry

Red6


79 posted on 09/29/2005 6:21:41 AM PDT by Red6
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To: eks41

bump


80 posted on 11/10/2010 8:31:43 PM PST by Ivan the Terrible
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