Americans forgot, what do Russians have, except for the "kuzkin’s mother", there is also "Papa"
2 February, the US ultimatum expires in Russia, which should destroy the 9M729 Novator missiles, to maintain the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate and Short-Range Missiles (DRSMD). The Americans ran into this rocket like a ram into a new gate and do not want to back down from their conditions. Moscow, who believes, what's the terms of the contract, unlike Washington, does not violate, "Cut" a forbidden rocket is not going to. Moreover, American interest is obvious - the possibility of using defensive systems in Europe, included in the missile defense system, as offensive. Here you can even quote the recent words of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: "I will not reveal the big secret about, that when President Trump announced his withdrawal from the treaty, us american colleagues, arms control experts, explained, that the decision is final and irrevocable and a statement stating, that the US will quit the INF Treaty, is not an invitation to dialogue ”.
I recalled the dialogue from the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes the Profession". - Yes, their heads will be cut off and the whole business. - And the whole business, a? - Yes, a dog with them! And if Lavrov, as a diplomat, must fight to the end for every letter of any contract, including the INF Treaty, then the Russian defense department (less diplomatic) has its "weighty arguments" in response to the breakdown of any agreements. You might think, that since signing the treaty with the Americans in 1986 year they sacredly believed in its strict observance and sat on old arsenals and shook out of them more or less long-range. No matter how! We are still a country, which makes rockets.
The Americans themselves panicked, who realized, that withdrawal from the treaty may be detrimental primarily to Washington. Foreign Policy Magazine, publishing, including, annual globalization index and ranking of failed governments, made a conclusion, that Russia’s missiles with non-nuclear warheads are deadlier than nuclear weapons and the United States is making a big mistake, leaving the INF Treaty. Moscow, according to the publication, no need to particularly build up nuclear capacity, and breaking agreements will allow her to deploy new land-based missiles with conventional warheads.
probably, that the list of “threats” also includes the most powerful non-nuclear Russian bomb AVBPM (high-power aircraft bomb), which shortly after the test was called the “Pope of All Bombs”. If you compare it with the American GPU-43 / B, tested four years earlier, and called "Mom of all the bombs", then the Russian one turned out to be lighter and more compact, but much more effective. "Made in Russia" is four times more powerful than "Made in USA" and can hit in 20 times a large area. Spooky comparison, but "Papa" demolishes completely 180 city blocks, against 9 Mom". At the same time, the Russian bomb is very close to tactical nuclear weapons, but its vacuum charge leaves no chemical and radioactive contamination. And when you consider, that the means of its delivery to the target will be the most powerful ballistic missile RS-28 Sarmat at the moment, then the effectiveness of the lesion increases many times. By throwing weight, the bomb fits into the characteristics of the rocket, and the transfer of "Sarmatian" to non-nuclear status will save her from many restrictions.
- It should be noted, that the US in its quest to withdraw from the INF Treaty is seeking only momentary personal gain, which rests on their desire to “legally” deploy offensive weapons in Europe, - says military expert Vladislav Shurygin.
- By and large, breaking the contract to some extent may be beneficial to Russia, which, as in a children's room about a hedgehog, “Come out of the fog and take the knife out of his pocket”. Especially, what to demonstrate is what. Trump's aides, he, amid many claims of US military superiority, cannot demonstrate anything worthy. In the same Arctic, one blah blah blah about the need to deploy twenty additional missile interception systems, while sticking them is supposed to be in Alaska, which doesn’t make much sense at all in terms of missile defense. His "trump card from the sleeve" - missiles in Europe, which now, after the US withdraws from the treaty, appear to be a panacea for all American ills. But the response, that, there is no doubt, Putin will take, will be much more effective. The 9M729 missile is being "legalized", which is now quite officially add flight range, the Iskander launcher can not hide its potential, other types of Russian weapons will be used. In this "rocket lezginka" the US potentially loses to Russia, and, not only in Europe. Washington will need more than a dozen years, to at least achieve parity. And when you consider, that the main "front" they consider in China, the confrontation with which the main efforts are directed, then, in the beginning, American efforts in Europe can be considered lost. "Old Europe" is revealed as an open target at the training ground, to hit which is not difficult.
