Russia test fires NEW ICBM. Will make enemies 'think twice', says Putin

[WarGamer]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/20/new-russian-missile-will-make-enemies-think-twice-says-putin

Russia successfully tested the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with President Vladimir Putin boasting the nuclear-capable projectile will make Moscow’s enemies “think twice”.

Putin was shown on television being told by the military the missile had been launched from Plesetsk in Russia’s northwest and hit targets in the Kamchatka peninsula in the far east on Wednesday.

The Sarmat is a new heavy ICBM that Russia is expected to deploy with 10 or more warheads on each missile, according to the United States Congressional Research Service.

[Calculating]

1. Lovely

Russia brings such good and useful things to the world.

[Grokenstein]

2. So Pootler aspires to turn Russia into North Korea II.

That's an interesting goal.

[WarGamer]

3. Or North Korea aspires to be Russia, lol...

[paleotn]

4. Keep thinking, Putin....

We have them too. And you can't find many of them.



Oh! I think this one may have Putin's name stenciled on one of its warheads. Ooops.

[WarGamer]

6. Rah Rah rah... who's got the nukes??!!??

I think there are more than enough to turn the lights out on the planet and make human problems irrelevant.

No war.

[paleotn]

7. Bingo. That's why Putin's threats are hollow....

A new delivery vehicle? So what. There's more than enough nukes around as is to put the surviving humans back to hunter and gatherer status.

[dutch777]

5. Hypersonic missiles are a game changer, anything else is just more of the same. Yawn!

Clearly Putin does not realize how his threats tend to bring the opposite of the reaction he desires. And they say Biden has dementia but seem to ignore Putin has just plain, but consistent, bad judgement.

[haele]

8. Really? You test fired one. How many do you have?

Also, was this a "game changer" missile? Not just an upgrade of one of your old Soviet designs?

How many of these do you have in production? They don't just march themselves off a factory line likethe brooms in the Sorcerer's Apprentice....

North Korea does this all the time. Build one, blow it up.

Haele

[Itchinjim]

9. As far as I'm concerned anyone who threatens to use nukes, even if they're bluffing,

has signed their own death warrant.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Pretty much every day now.

[WarGamer]

15. It's just breaking news related to the Ukraine conflict...

[Amishman]

11. Does it really matter? Our missile defense systems can't intercept more than a handful of old ones

What systems we have are intended for intercepting a few missiles as most, not an arsenal the size of Russia's or China's.

Does this really make any difference? The old slower missiles would kill me just as dead.

[ananda]

12. Can't we shoot those down?

???

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

16. A few of them, probably

Last I read we have 44 interceptors deployed. It takes 3 interceptors per missile to guarantee a 90% kill probability. So we could stop maybe 14. Problem with that is, if Russia were to launch, there would be hundreds of incoming missiles.

Long story short, our ballistic missile defense is useless against a full strategic launch from a near peer enemy. It was mainly designed for rogue launches from North Korea or Iran.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

13. Wait till he sees our space laser platforms shoot them down...shhhh, space force, baby, oh yeah

[egduj]

14. Think twice?

It's all we've been thinking about...