Russian leader Vladimir Putin revealed the existence of new ‘hypersonic’ and ‘laser’ weapons which he claims only his country will possess and which may grant Russia a strategic advantage in any future military conflict. As The Daily Mail reports:
Vladimir Putin has asserted that Russia will continue to expand its weapons development as he boasts his country has hypersonic and laser weapons that no other nation has.
The Russian president made the comments during a meeting with top officials and prosecutors on Wednesday.
However Putin went on to say that the country’s weapons expansion is not intended as a ‘threat’ to other nations.
‘Our army and our fleet have proven their high capabilities, and we plan to continue expanding our defense potential, putting hypersonic and laser systems on alert along with other modern arms systems, which other countries do not possess so far,’ Putin said as quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency.
It’s unclear how accurate Putin’s statements are, still they serve as a warning to the US military.
Well I hope Mr. Putin holds on to them, because I know once you’re in bed with China, they pretty much own the furniture.
As much as there is to worry of Russia, worse is the threat of China! The cold war will be nothing compared to the threats and designs, already announced by China, as intended war with preparations and funding by this country.
Looks like ol’ Vlad finally caught up to where the US was 50 years ago.
Top secret weapons are not a simple news article. They exist and are already a 4Gen systems unified with current drones and satellite systems. Does anyone think the new shuttle is space research? We are tapping into their spy sats and relaying material right back to the good ole USA.
Barack Hussein Obama’s stated goal to “fundamentally change America” was especially marked by his efforts to effectively emasculate our military forces. He forced early retirement of good generals and admirals, severely cut funding for adequate maintenance of our military’s spare parts and training, and chose the fool’s errand of attempting to BLUFF his way past contentious situations. He cut the numbers of troops kept on active duty, and he decimated the number of blue-water ready Navy ships – particularly aircraft carriers. Obama WANTED America to deteriorate into third-world posture, and Hillary Clinton, if elected President, would have completed the destruction of this country !!!
These comments are absolutely ridiculous. Don’t be so gullible. TrueDaily (that appears to be a post office box in Virginia) appears to be adhering to the RT strategy of exaggerating Russian military capabilities. You can find hundreds of similar examples of this scare-mongering on YouTube. The Russian social media strategy is to make Americans fearful. Fearful of each other. Fearful of various external threats. If you live in fear, you blame your government. All the military decisions that are being made and were made over the last 30 years cannot be pinned on on administration. A development programs take 30 years to come to fruition.
When I retired from MDAC 20 years ago, we were looking at hypersonic weapons. I guess when the deep state decided to allow Boeing to buy out MDAC, this was one of the areas that got cut. What we thought we could do, we didn’t do. It appears that the Chinese built and started to integrate the F-35 into their air force before we did. Is it because we kept promoting fighter pilots to run procurement systems instead of having a professional cadre that understood the development processes and procedures. I worry about our country with the Democrat Socialists in control. We had 8 years of worrying about PC items instead of recognizing that the role of the military is to kill people and break things. The role of the civilian community is to build things that let the military do its job without taking excessive casualties.
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Why doesn’t the United States already have hypersonic and laser weapons?? Because of 8 years of Obama and the communist demoncrats in the House and Senate!! The communist demoncrats WILL NEVER protect the United States!!
You are so right, they only care about themselves.
We had an airborne laser that blew a hole in a submarine-launched missile’s fuel tank from 800 miles away. Last I heard, it was at Dayton OH. I got this info directly from a member of the plane’s crew after SecDef killed the project.