An annual US budget is needed to defend against the “Sarmats” and the “Vanguards”
The measures announced by President Putin at a meeting with the military in Sochi to strengthen its air defense and navy mean that In essence, Russia has solved the problem of reliably covering its territory from attacks by aircraft and missiles of any kind from any direction. But the entire US missile defense system is powerless against modern Russian hypersonic weapons. This is the opinion of an Israeli political scientist, the former head of the Nativ special service, Yakov Kedmi.
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On November 1, President Putin held the first of his scheduled meetings this week with generals and defense industry officials. It was dedicated to the development of the Air Force and Navy. In particular, the President spoke about the early commissioning of the Air Force S-500 long-range anti-aircraft missile systems.
Many years of work to create a new defense system against all types of missiles, their equipment, its commissioning has been completed, Yakov Kedmi said on the YouTube channel “Soloviev-LIVE”.
According to him, this defense system “against all types of threats coming from the sky” is “the basis of the whole balance of power” in Russia and the USA.
Commenting on Putin's measures on the development of the air force and navy, Kedmi concluded that Russia had succeeded in neutralizing the most powerful naval component of the US strategic forces in the world. The coastal defense system and ship formations in the near-sea zone, armed with Kalibr and Zircon missiles, drive “American platforms at sea, both surface and submarine, more than a thousand kilometers off the coast of Russia.”
According to the expert, Putin has set himself the task of developing naval formations “in distant sea and ocean spaces.” And this is an offensive component that “can pose a threat to US strategic bases and the United States itself.” “Russia is entering a new phase in the development of its fleet,” Kedmi concluded.
Weapons, the expert believes, is forcing the United States to completely change the concept of missile defense. Today, the US missile defense system is built mainly to protect against ballistic missiles, which fly towards the United States along a trajectory through the North Pole.
“The Americans will have to deploy a circular defense system, that is, cover the United States from all sides,” Kedmi said. “This is a colossal U.S. defense spending that could exceed today's entire U.S. budget.”
As you know, the U.S. budget is about $ 10 trillion. The US military budget for 2021 is $ 720 billion.
According to the expert, huge financial resources are needed for the development of this system, for the missile defense equipment, and for their commissioning. Today, the United States has none of that. “They do not have a defense system for strategic missiles, which Russia has supersonic charges,” Kedmi said. “Sarmat” is a missile that will completely break the entire United States missile defense system, “the expert noted.
It is able to transport warheads across the South Pole, that is, to attack US territory. from the south, from Mexico, where the United States has no missile defenses.
He explained that the Americans “built a missile defense system primarily on naval platforms – on destroyers with the Aegis missile defense system.
The algorithm of operation of these American missile defense systems is as follows: to detect the launch of a missile and aim the anti-missile at a target that flies in a ballistic, ie constant orbit. To do this, the anti-missile is directed to the point of the trajectory, where the target should be at a certain time – hundreds and thousands of kilometers from the place where the target is at the time of firing the anti-missile. But Avangard is able to change its trajectory, which breaks the US missile defense algorithm. The interceptor missile will not hit him.
“The whole huge expensive missile defense system built on dozens of Idzhi destroyers is not effective against Sarmat,” Kedmi concludes. – … There are virtually no weapons against the Vanguard. Once “Sarmat” with “Avangards” is up and running, this is an important step. Although today it has a huge advantage in this area (Russia).