In the US, we are pleased to unsuccessful tests of our new weapons. But do not doubt, that in five years it will be ready
United States rejoicing: According to their intelligence with 2017 , Russia has experienced five times the latest cruise missile "Petrel" (SSC-X-9 Skyfall NATO classification) with small-sized heavy-duty nuclear power plant and all attempts failed. This was with undisguised pleasure announced the largest US cable and satellite television channel CNBC business news.
So what: Americans, unluckily which clearly and create a formidable new product with a virtually unlimited range of flight, can sleep peacefully? If so, the, likely, very short. What follows from the further explanation CNBC. Because after the malicious reports of engineering failures of Moscow in a statement referring to all of the same shtatovskih intelligence says, that Russia is making every effort to expedite the work on the project, to the new missiles were "ready for war" to 2025 of the year.
Very short for those, who do not know: for the first time openly about the ongoing work in our country to create a "Petrel" President Vladimir Putin told 1 Martha 2018 , in his address to the Federal Assembly. Statement by the Head of State was accompanied by the sensational videoclip missile launch. According to Putin, new weapon has an unpredictable flight path, It is making it invulnerable for all existing, and for advanced missile systems and air defense.
As it appears, West it was a shock. Because exactly our potential opponents in this direction by the time not worked. What made sworn "friends" of Russia in every way immediately start to criticize the project for almost the inevitable pollution of the environment, even in the test phase. Not to mention the apocalyptic results of combat use of the new weapon.
These suspicions are only strengthened 8 August this year, when a military training ground near the village Nenoksa (Arkhangelsk region) there was a kind of explosion, which killed five of our scientists test-and three people were injured. In nearby Severodvinsk was recorded short (from 11:50 to 12:20 by Moscow time) jump to background radiation 2 mSv / h at conventional level 0,11 Sv. this message appeared on the website of city administration, but it was soon removed. A day, According to some reports, arrow dosimeters briefly, but swung significantly in Arkhangelsk, where, as it appears, got the radioactive cloud.
According to the statement of the Ministry of Defense, at the site exploded a liquid jet, which used radioisotope power source. But in the West, then wail: Nenoksa under test is "Petrel". This surge of public interest in our military secrets and spawned, of course, current leakage from the US military intelligence, for which TV channel CNBC has been selected.
According to these data, test "Petrel" went once this year. Another four - November 2017 to February 2018 of the year.
Earlier in the United States appeared data, from which it follows, that for all the work on the program of the August test launch was under Nenoksa, least, fourteenth. Previous carried out on an uninhabited archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, which ever since the Soviet Union tested nuclear weapons. Namely - in the land area of the peninsula Pankov, from the territory of the so-called "command center automation" D "zone, located near the settlement Pankovo.
The longest flight of a rocket prototype, by CNBC reports, It continued over two minutes, for which the "Petrel" overcome 35,4 km (looks like, on this day, and as a single relatively successful launch of a cruise missile was shot, that in March of 2018 saw fit to show the world Putin). The shortest test, US intelligence officers say, It ended in failure in all four seconds after the start.
whether it gives rise to Washington a little to take a breath? Of course not. Because for sure, Russia has made a major technological breakthrough in the design of a surprisingly compact nuclear reactor. And left far behind in this case any of the Western countries. After all, if you fully trust Putin's statement last year, the reactor was able to shove into the housing, in size similar to the body's strategic aviation Kh-101 cruise missile. The length of the last 7,5 m, and diameter - just 0,7 m.
true, this surely must conclude, that no biological defense at the reactor there. And in the case of the collapse of the "Petrel" it will be an inevitable problem for the countryside, which fall. by the way, It is for this reason that at the time the Americans, since the 50s of the last century tried to create its own missile under the designation SLAM (Supersonic Low Altitude Missile, low-altitude supersonic missile) nuclear power plant, the project Pluto, They turned their work. Although by the time they managed to create two prototypes of the new engine (Tory-IIA и Tory-IIC), which even made the inclusion of reactors. Air is therein heated up to temperatures of the order of colossal 1700 degrees Celsius, that allows you to create a very powerful traction on almost indefinitely.
According to data released overseas, the length of the SLAM missile was to be 26,8 m, diameter - three meters, and weight - 28 tonnes. Range of flight, at least, — 182 thousands of kilometers. Pentagon believed, that in case of a threat of serious war, a flock of such missiles after launch will be a long patrol in a deserted area in anticipation of "Attack Team!». And only then will rush to the preset objects.
But, At first, reactor in such weapons cooled air flowing therethrough, which become radioactive, even on its own heavily polluting. Secondly, crashing on terrain areas, over which flew the rocket to, I would stand a, as if directly overhead at the population boomed powerful locomotive. Besides, the entire flight route SLAM were inevitable fallout. Therefore, 1964 Pluto, the project has been closed.
whether Russia was able to, Getting to the creation of the "Petrel", overcome these problems? Not sure. And that, What happened under the Nenoksa month and a half ago, apparently, It can be regarded as an indirect confirmation of these fears. That fact, that previous test launches were conducted over almost uninhabited Novaya Zemlya - in the same row.
But it can be assumed, that the new weapons could become a kind of complement to the famous Soviet still "Perimeter" system, dubbed in the West "dead hand". It is a complex automatic control guaranteed massive nuclear retaliation (Index ASU RVSN - 15E601, in Western Europe and the United States it is known as the English. Dead Hand, literally "Dead Man's Hand"), which will be applied only after, all of our military and political decision-making centers in a few minutes to destroy the enemy in accordance with the Pentagon developed the concept of limited nuclear war.
clear, so that if the unthinkable happens, then all of us (even those, who will survive) It will be deeply "violet" and unimaginable roar from heaven, and the contamination which would then where else. But "Petrel" enemy really think once again make: Is it worth putting your finger on the "red" key?
maybe, All these arguments - an occasion for serious discussions. But here is what undoubtedly: Americans here are from us far behind, Trump and even boasted, that they have long been something posovershenney. If "Donald agent" is meant a dusty shelf Pluto project, today for the Russian nuclear power is stone age. Not least because, that jostle the reactor in a three-meter diameter SLAM missiles much easier, four more than the modest size of the "Petrel". Yes, and composite materials, long capable of withstanding the enormous jet temperature, in the 50s it was not simple.
In conclusion - that, whether the United States to enjoy, what, least, Fourteen trials modern Russian missiles until completed only a partial success? These stories - a common occurrence in the making of the latest missile weapons in any country. You did not forget, in any agony born, for example, Our solid-intercontinental ballistic missile "Bulava" P-30 to be placed on nuclear submarine strategic project 955 "Northwind"? FROM 23 on September 2004 24 August 2019 was produced 32 launch control. Only 22 It is found to be successful, and two - partially successful. But to date, nuclear-powered ships "Dmitry Dolgoruky", "Vladimir Monomakh" and "Alexander Nevsky" their "mace crushed not one peg at the Kura test site in Kamchatka. Works, Although born in the throes of the missile.
Do not doubt: "Petrel", too, will learn to fly and get to the right place. After working on it Ekaterinburg Experimental Design Bureau "Innovator". That same, that not so long ago, on its own initiative has developed has become world famous Russian family of high-precision cruise missiles, long-range "Caliber". Yes, "Caliber" fly on conventional engines. But reactors for "Petrel" has long been ready and proven in. "Innovator" is left to combine with one another. And the "dead hand" of Russia will be unusually long and inevitable. To actually one not to be dead.
