It’s (un)surprisingly unable to perform any long range cruise misisle strike and will remain so.

care to elaborate?

I think he means that Storm Shadow is almost qualified and it would surely be fairly easy to take-off from Cyprus, fire it and RTB, which is about the extent of the strike mission conducted here.

12:50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1x5YRI6BO8

IMO it’s a normal R-27ET. Roughly 10s burn time, easily capable of reaching medium altitudes from a surface launch. Unlikely they’d remove the explosives, the R-27’s hit rate is not good enough to use it as a KE interceptor. At 0:22, you can also see a cloud where the initial explosion occurred.

Rubezh has been cancelled now anyway, see missiles news section.

The Kinzhal can only be a ballistic missile to attain that range. The Kh-32 has a range of only 1,000km flying at high altitude and that is huge relative to Kinzhal.

let see China can repeat what Russia did with 40,000 sorties in Middleast and that was mostly done with technology and equipment manufactured in 1970-80s. now the modern equipment is entering Russia. it will have big impact. I don’t think China has test fired that many long range cruise missiles.
neither China or US can afford arms race. both are polluting environment so much that all the money will go to expensive health care. US need external human resources and components due dysfunctional education that is creating trade deficits/inflation. China need to steal or import high end stuff.. I don’t see how they can compete with Russia. Russia nuclear arsenal is modern than both. it has titanium valley and factories located in low cost regions.

You are right that China copies a lot, I said they were the only ones who could afford it. Right now the US GDP is outgrowing debt, and only a small increase in defence spending of 0.5% GDP would amount to $100bn, which is spent on SDI, would go a long way.