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“We don’t see these things. Hypersonic weapons- Kinzhal is a modification of a intermediate range BM questionable if it fits in this category, many view it as a propaganda weapon rather than a useful addition. Tsirkon is more interesting… and not in service (and I’d take rumored entry date of 2020 with a large grain of salt). In truth, we don’t know who is closer to fielding either a hypersonic airbreathing cruise missile or a boost-glide weapon, for all of the research ongoing and investment it could be the Chinese.”
https://qr.ae/TWIhdz I believe I have addressed most of their hypersonic capabilities. But to me and everyone else it would absolutely make no sense that they have developed a missile with similar roles to the sparrow missiles(knowingly it would not work) while claiming to destroy air defense platforms. The Kinzhal information as you said before was leaked while the US believes its similar to sparrow missile. But Russias description of maneuvering at every stage compared to the sparrow missile only maneuvering at the re-entry phase is still too different to say they have similar roles. What I am saying is there would be no purpose for the Russians to boast about the kinzhal missile if it was that similar to the sparrow missiles.
“Heavy class UAV- prototype, there is no doubt Russia is behind the other major powers in developing and fielding UAV.”
I agree with you on this, but my opinion along with many on this forum might change since it is said that this Spring flight tests will be done with their heavy drone Okhontik. The next thing I hope they would do is test the radar and have the drone fire missiles. I think the Russians are only behind the US(although that might change depending on this project’s outcome) for example I do not see any similar project those other major powers you are talking about being made.
“again this is an area where Russia is clearly behind the other major powers, perhaps not in technology, but in industrial capacity. Russian shipbuilding industry had to be rebuilt from nothing, if the last 10 years has shown anything, throwing money at the problem did not speed up production or efficiency.”
We had sailors die and be buried at sea because of the radiation poisoning they have received on Project Azorian trying to recover a submarine along with some torpedoes. In the Quora answer there are other attack submarines like the Yasen-M. There has been a lot of debate about the noise levels between the Yasen-M and newer Virginia class subs arguing which one is more stealthier(do not want to bring it up for the sake of this aviation thread). Russians claim their SONAR is far superior(no knows that for sure) But I do know that if Zircon and this submarine become operational it can basically destroy groups of ships and since its torpedo outranges other torpedoes range and comes with a self autonomous 2.5km dual passive and active homing warhead the accuracy is even better that if this submarines stealth was equivalent to other in terms of stealth and has its sonar range capability meet its torpedo range than this sub will always get 1st shot 1st kill. It also has a neat Vist-2 decoy that can imitate noise and radiation levels of other submarines.
However I agree the US is superior in naval radars on ships because as far as I know there is no Naval version of a s-400 or S-500 on a ship yet.
“Russia’s share of world trade is minuscule, and shrinking”
They stopped parts of Ukraine becoming a part of NATO, Screwed with us on Syria and Venezuela, and now are beginning more trade and military projects with Turkey and just like the Chinese they are planning most of their businesses in Africa.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-economy-gdp/russias-gdp-growt…
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