Russian Strategic Weapon Modernization Plans

[shin_getter]

Given recent events, there is a take where Russian spending on navy and strategic forces is a major mistake. The allocated army is insufficient for Ukraine scale occupation even with normal performance, and actual performance is poor and already failed at achieving many war aims.

Unlike the ongoing land war, there is no clear use case for naval and advanced strategic forces.

 

[starviking]

Given recent events, there is a take where Russian spending on navy and strategic forces is a major mistake. The allocated army is insufficient for Ukraine scale occupation even with normal performance, and actual performance is poor and already failed at achieving many war aims.

Unlike the ongoing land war, there is no clear use case for naval and advanced strategic forces.

And with the land side of the Ukrainian invasion showing awfully poor maintenance, and bearing in mind the famous maintenance deficits of the navy (tugs accompanying most deployments), one has to wonder how the strategic forces would actually perform if called upon to carry out their singular mission?

 

[paralay]

Was the tug used for towing?

 

[kaiserd]

And that’s before considerations like the funds potentially freed up by an alternative choice of a more modest update of strategic forces instead being used to invest in wider economic development of an economy far too reliant on oil & gas exports and with most of its other sectors stagnating at best. But such an approach would require a very different perspective to have the leavers of power in Russia.

 

[aonestudio]

Russia: Hypersonic missiles used to destroy weapons depot in western Ukraine

MOSCOW: Russia used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west, the defense ministry said. “The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground...

www.arabnews.com

Ukraine Update: Zelenskiy Says Some Opposition Parties Suspended

Ukraine expects to get its next batch of U.S. weaponry, including Javelins and Stingers, in the coming days. Evacuations continued on Saturday even as heavy fighting continued, particularly in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, and Russian forces blocked several trucks carrying...

www.bloomberg.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505121990952296452

View: https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/1505121990952296452

 

[litzj]

I had updated trajectory analysis for Iskander-M or Kh-47M Kinzhal

https://jaesan-aero.blogspot.com/2022/03/few-ballistic-missile-analysis-w_19.html

 

[Flyaway]

New video about Sarmat:

 

[Desertfox]

Might be new but all the information is both old and quite inaccurate.

 

[Flyaway]

Might be new but all the information is both old and quite inaccurate.

In what way is it inaccurate as the guy doing it is a professional historian to the best of my knowledge. You cannot just say something is inaccurate, without stating how it is inaccurate?

 

[bobbymike]

Another Kinzhal strike?

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10160401478444497&id=25695254496

View: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10160401478444497&id=25695254496&m_entstream_source=feed_mobile

 

[Desertfox]

Might be new but all the information is both old and quite inaccurate.

In what way is it inaccurate as the guy doing it is a professional historian to the best of my knowledge. You cannot just say something is inaccurate, without stating how it is inaccurate?

Unfortunately due to what I do know, I can't go into details. But I can say that every single one of his points can be traced back to Russian news sources over the past 10 years, which we all know are of very dubious quality. He doesn't do any new analysis, just merely repeats stuff previously talked about.

 

[Josh_TN]

Very detailed article about the current state of Russian nuclear forces:

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2022-02/nuclear-notebook-how-many-nuclear-weapons-does-russia-have-in-2022/?__cf_chl_tk=eL6xJvFGliFapnBecZNIReLD31bwy0UWEAdh92NI92k-1645660057-0-gaNycGzNB70

 

[Flyaway]

Successful RS-28 test launch.

I found an article with a launch video from Twitter but there was no indication if it was from this launch so have not included it.

Russia claims successful launch of 'Satan II' nuclear missile that can strike from 11,000 miles

In a dark warning to the West Vladimir Putin said the successful test of one of the most powerful weapons in history, which could kill millions in England or France, would provide "food for thought" for Russia's enemies in Ukraine

inews.co.uk

 

[QuadroFX]

RS-28 "Sarmat": First flight test

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOENOg_XT6w

 

[bobbymike]

Report to Congress on Russian Nuclear Weapons - USNI News

The following is the March 21, 2022, Congressional Research Service report, Russia’s Nuclear Weapons: Doctrine, Forces, and Modernization. From the report Russia’s nuclear forces consist of both long-range, strategic systems—including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)...

news.usni.org

 

[Flyaway]

Russia is reportedly planning to deploy a unit armed with its new intercontinental ballistic missile, known as Satan 2, later this year.

The unit will be based in Uzhur, around 1,800 miles east of Moscow, according to the state-run Tass news agency, which cited the head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin.

It will be operational no later than autumn 2022, Tass reported.

Russia preparing to deploy military unit armed with new Satan 2 nuclear missiles

The missile is the latest addition to Russia's nuclear arsenal

inews.co.uk

 

[bobbymike]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1518067534461022208

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/DnKornev/status/1518067534461022208

 

[Forest Green]

Were nuclear warheads on the Moskva's cruise missiles?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlKjJ4a89_A

 

[bobbymike]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1518204374849400833

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/RussiaNuclear/status/1518204374849400833

 

[publiusr]

Unlike SS-9/SS-18, this was made from the start to be modular. Not just warheads. Good.

To see a missile of that size tossed out of a silo impresses me.

Now, I want to see all-solid, Athena III/SRB-based solids in huge silos similar to that…with that kind of flexibility. Florida only. In case of another Ouamuamua, NEO impact threat. A transient event passes by you can launch a probe at a moment’s notice. An asteroid? Swap the probe out for a nuke.

 

[bobbymike]

Unlike SS-9/SS-18, this was made from the start to be modular. Not just warheads. Good.

To see a missile of that size tossed out of a silo impresses me.

Now, I want to see all-solid, Athena III/SRB-based solids in huge silos similar to that…with that kind of flexibility. Florida only. In case of another Ouamuamua, NEO impact threat. A transient event passes by you can launch a probe at a moment’s notice. An asteroid? Swap the probe out for a nuke.

ATK (Northrop Grumman) looked at an all solid Antares that was estimated at 25k to LEO. Would have made a fine ICBM IMHO.

 

[publiusr]

That needs to be looked at again…multipurpose. If there is any part of the triad under threat (Buffs and Boomers in the clear) it’s the Ballistics…as Missileers were always treated like red-headed stepchildren. But R-7 pads had artillerymen up until recently…or is that still the case? An ABMA that never died.

 

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1518204374849400833

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/RussiaNuclear/status/1518204374849400833

I read somewhere that it was 5 Avangard or 15 normal warheads.

 

[Josh_TN]

I would have thought the Avangard gliders would be much less volume efficient than even that, but then again its shape and dimensions were never published to the best of my knowledge.

 

[Forest Green]

I would have thought the Avangard gliders would be much less volume efficient than even that, but then again its shape and dimensions were never published to the best of my knowledge.

I'm actually questioning my memory now, was it 5 or 3? It's possible the Avangard has a smaller warhead too though.

 

[QuadroFX]

RS-28 first launch in artificial 4K 60FPS

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9O1Nqqz3ZM