Not a secret, that the Pentagon’s military budget exceeds 738 billion dollars on 2020 year, but these are not complete numbers, in fact, various military and reconnaissance goals will be spent more $750 billion. it is more 40% all world military spending, and this is almost equal to the total spending of the next eight countries combined.
It was about the annual budget., which is spent not only on the purchase of military equipment, keeping troops alert throughout the world, new developments and salary payments. Today we are more interested in the amounts allocated to the new arms race, those funds, which will be directed to projects designed to provide a decent response to the so-called Russian threat.
Now a situation is very paradoxical for many military experts., when a weaker economically and technologically state, standing recently on the verge of collapse, became a locomotive of military engineering and came to the forefront in a number of areas of military-technical progress. And for some, practically considered lost directions if not ahead, in any case, it’s not so far behind, although we will be honest – quantitatively inferior to a potential adversary in almost all directions.
The main drawback of the modern Russian military system is the lack of a powerful navy, which is not only the first frontier of the country's defense, and the pillar and long arm of the state’s geopolitics. The fleet is able to defend economic, and therefore the national interests of the country anywhere in the world. but, one cannot but admit the fact, that despite the big problems, he stopped degrading, its current construction is an important component if shifted to the field of strategic nuclear forces. With the fleet, we will begin consideration of the topic of US spending on confrontation with Russia.
Strategic nuclear forces
In the distant 1996 year, when the empire ruled the world sovereignly, In the impoverished and plundered Russia the first strategic boat of the new generation was laid down and received the code “Borey”. Launching took place already in 2008 year, and adoption into service despite many shortcomings took place in 2013 year. At first glance, this has little to do with the current review., but it is not. The Boreas are currently the only fourth-generation strategic submarines on the planet. Their serial construction forced the US command to reconsider their views on the underwater component and 2014 to launch its long-delayed SSBN nuclear propellant design program(X) .
Total to be built 12 PLARB SSBN(X) «Colombia», which are intended to replace 14 third-generation Ohio class obsolete nuclear missile carriers. The total cost of the SSBN project(X) new generation is valued at 110 billion, including some 10 billion dollars in R&D. The cost of one boat is currently estimated at 7,2 billion, which totals $86,4 billion., but let's not forget the cost of the upgraded Trident II D5LE missiles, which also need to be developed and built. The lead boat is planned to be commissioned in 2031 year.
surprisingly, but among the opponents of the SSBN project(X) includes many experts and admirals, quite reasonably considering, that this project will weaken the surface component of the U.S. Navy due to budgetary constraints. It is believed, that boats could be built easier, or even not build them at all, focusing on other areas. Now the protective strategy and tasks of NIOC on the topic of repulsing a nuclear strike by Russian “Poseidon”, therefore, there are no exact numbers, but it will definitely be tens of billions invested either in a new type of counteraction system or in additional submarines and ships to protect the coast.
Long Range Attack Bomber LRS-B (Long Range Strike-Bomber) was in the plans for a long time, does not apply to the topic of retaliatory military spending, but the numbers are interesting to us in general, therefore voiced. The total cost of the LRS-B program will be 92 billion. dollars, of which the purchase will have 61 billion. dollars, and R&D - 31 billion.
Ground-based missile silos will cost taxpayers 20 to 70 billion. dollars excluding the basing method. Total for the modernization and updating of nuclear forces to 2040 years now it is planned to spend about one trillion dollars.
American experts also propose developing in the USA an analogue of the Soviet / Russian system for automatic control of a massive retaliatory nuclear strike “Perimeter” (Dead Hand — “dead hand”).
Hypersound
Demonstrated by Russian President V. Putin in an appeal to the Federal Assembly 1 Martha 2018 years latest hypersonic systems “Dagger” and “avant-garde” made a stronger impression on the overseas military, than other systems mainly because, that these technologies are more understandable due to slow-moving research in the US and China of similar systems. the, what the finished product was demonstrated “Dagger”, and after some time it was announced the adoption of this system put into a state of shock the opponents of Russia for some time.
hypersonic Zircon rocket
Americans can be anyone, but certainly not fools. They intensified work in various areas of hypersonic technology., development of which has been carried out since the beginning of the 2000s as part of a quick global strike with R&D costs in the range 200 million dollars. Now we are talking about billions given to the management of promising research projects. (DARPA) and not only them, money is spread over many projects and departments:
GBU – Fast Global Punch
Highlighted in the press projects:
Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW – aviation missile system, analogue of the Russian "Dagger") and
Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW – more innovative option),
Tactical Boost Glide (TBG – tactical glider accelerator, also an analogue of the Russian "Dagger"),
Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HIV-2 – analogue of the Russian avant-garde planning winged block),
Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW - mobile complex of long-range Avangard type),
Common Hypersonic Glide Body ( C-HGB – analogue of the Russian avant-garde planning winged block, which can be put on different media)
Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC – jet engine hypersonic weapons)
ABOUT – missile defense
The other day, the amounts became known, which will go on to develop protective systems against hypersonic weapons. And if it is very difficult to understand the systems related to GBU due to the many projects changing names and intertwining, then everything is simple and at the same time it has a grand scale.
Estimated appearance of an American air-based hypersonic missile
Three US corporations Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon got a 4,4 million dollars to develop (only paper scribble) them on a competitive basis submitted projects – “of concepts” hypersonic weapons (Hypersonic Defense Weapon Systems Concept – HDWSC) with deadlines 2 May 2020 of the year. If before the means were smeared for a long time and did not have clearly formulated tasks, now everything has changed.
Lockheed martin got 4,442 million dollars to develop a system concept, именуемой Valkyrie Interceptor Terminal Hypersonic Defense.
Boeing 4,357 million dollars system called Hypervelocity Interceptor (HYVINT) Concept for Hypersonic Weapons. And this despite the recent failure of the Redesigned Kill Vehicle ballistic missile interceptor (RKV).
Raytheon Missile Systems (division of Raytheon) 4,445 million dollars for a system referred to as SM3-HAWK (probably based on the standard SM-3 anti-missile family).
anti-missile family Standard SM-3
Most likely, the distribution into three corporations is connected with the division by the method of basing of anti-missile carriers, namely: air based, sea and land. Probably tight deadlines were triggered by intelligence about the successful completion of tests of the Russian hypersonic missile “zircon”, knock which is currently not possible.
It is worth noting, that the article is not talking about the American counterparts of our missiles: “zircon” - anti-ship hypersonic and "Petrel" - an intercontinental cruise missile of global range with a nuclear power plant.
Recall another interesting missile system, over which work was carried out in Russia for a long time. This is the air defense / missile defense system S-500 "Prometheus", which is just designed to destroy hypersonic targets. About other areas of technological confrontation, including “Alabuge” will be written separately.
At one time, the USSR overcame in an arms race, now, if you look at things objectively, it’s exactly the same situation approached in the USA. The only difference, that the US has a printing press, hence agony can last decades. More 110 million people live on unemployment benefits (35%), the number of homeless people is unknown, but a lot of them, 2,2 million are in prison, widespread and partially legalized drug addiction, various unhealthy currents of various kinds are split into society. US economists demand investment in infrastructure, which fell into decline and return industrial production to the country, but all the free money and even debt goes to the army.
America has a very difficult choice – remain a global empire or tackle your internal problems, losing leadership for a while. Imposed by Russia (think so in the USA) in response to the US withdrawing from the ABM treaty in 2002 g. arms race could well bring Pax Americana to collapse. Is it profitable for us? If you think economically – no, if you look through the prism of history, in which the US is clearly not a good country – Yes, their collapse will be a boon to many nations. But it will lead to a mass of wars between their allies, as the deterrent in the face of america disappears, old unresolved disputes and grievances come out, as it was during the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
In the meantime, we will observe US convulsive attempts to regain at least parity in armaments, which was lost due to a suddenly resurrected country, which 20 years ago were written off to the dump of world history, but something went wrong…
