Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his forces would be ready to deploy the hypersonic Avangard missile...”
Boy I wish we had some of those hypersonic Avangard missiles...
Not interested.
The war is here.
New START is in the best interests of the US.
Abrogation of the INF Treaty was also in our best interests, as we need a convincing, overt nuke capability in the Western Pacific.
Putin is silly. Russia is broke. They don’t have any technology they didn’t steal from us. LOL. What a maroon. An evil maroon, but a maroon nonetheless, AND attention whore. Putin is dangerous but China is by far and away our most dangerous enemy.
Never mind the thing that blew up and killed scientists not long ago...
BFD.
Ballistic missiles travel at 16,000mph = 20 times the speed of sound.
Newsweek, you just showed how abysmally ignorant your writer and editors are with this one statement.
Quick, sink all of our AC carriers because they will never survive anyway. /sarc
Something to contemplate!!
If they are SHOWING US... they don’t have it.
Beware if Putin stands next to you at the urinal and asks you if you want to see his missile.
How does the supersonic Russia missiles protect the Russian Commonwealth from retaliation from SLBMs?
The lame-ass MSM is buying this crap of an "unstoppable missile". We have them too. They're called Minuteman III. As for maneuverable re-entry vehicles, McDonnell Douglas developed and implemented them into our missiles in the 1970s. What was that about "technical innovation"? Vladdy thinks that vodka improved to taste marginally better than the gasoline in his Zhiguli's tank is technical innovation.
Too fast to intercept? I doubt that. What was it, a couple of years ago the US shot down that satellite to prevent Hydrazine from reaching the ground? Well, that was the story, right? It also demonstrated that we could hit something travelling at orbital speeds. This system is sub-orbital, starting at a lower velocity. Yes it can maneuver - to some extent. Every maneuver scrubs off speed and energy. Ultimately it dives towards a target, not significantly different from other "standard" ICBMs. Terminal intercept systems shouldn't see it as being much different from anything else.
But that's just technical fun. Big picture, even if it works as designed (a big if with new tech) and even if it cannot be intercepted - BFD most of Russia's existing ICBMs cannot be intercepted. Oh sure, we can probably knock down the first 30 or 40. Russia has nearly 300 ICBMs. So at best we get what, maybe 10%...
The US missile defense system isn't designed to counter a massive doomsday strike. It is supposed to stop terrorists and nation-states such as Iran and North Korea. Iran and NK are far more likely to use their weapons than Russia or China. We don't see eye to eye with either Russia or China, but they are at least nominally sane and rational by our standards. They "get" mutually assured destruction. However, Iran and their cultists...not so much. They just might go for it, even knowing they'll become a glass-topped self-lighting parking lot, figuring their reward is waiting in paradise. Ditto NK, so power-mad that if they see it all coming apart, they'll probably launch on us, Japan, and SK just out of frustration and petty BS. I don't trust the leadership of either of those countries.