It seems that The 90’s mismanagement in Russia started to show now just when the USA will start to deploy its NMD around Russia. Nevertheless Russia can ride the “bad years” (2005-2020) with ingenuity. I.e. (just an example), START treaty doesn’t limit the number of “decoy TEL”, so Trucks of retired Topol can be “patrolling” in their former deployment areas. Furthermore, these patrolling areas can be enlarged and/or changed after 2009. In the end a “mobile shell game” with many fake Topol plus real Topol plus real Topol-m can be generated without much cost. This will create a headache to those who think a pre-emptive-strike on Russia is feasible. Meantime the nuclear arsenal can be replenished with mobile multiple warhead ICBM, Borey class will start to arrive, and so on.
A “launch on warning” posture can be another option. This is a bit more dangerous but advisable in order to “refrigerate” some hot neocon heads in the west.

Con someone summarize the hypersonic research projects, in USA, Russia, UE, India, …?
Info about potential military applications (MARV warheads, cruise missiles, etc) are also welcomed. :diablo:

Thanks in advance 😀

RSM55, let me translate your layout to concrete systems:
1. SLBM: Let assume 5 Borey with 16 Bulava each vessel and, in turn, 6 warhead per missile. That means:
5 x 16 x 6 = 480 warheads

Note: If the first Borey have just 12 SLBM, the number of warheads is reduced to 456.

2. ICBM: Let assume a 50/50 mix of single warhead Topol-m plus ten-warheads RS-24.

If 90 missiles of each class are deployed, this means:
90 x 10 (RS-24) + 90 (Topol-M) = 990

3. ALCM:
18 Tu-160 x 12 Kh-101 = 216
36 Tu-95 x 16 Kh-101 = 576
Total : 792

Grand Total : 2262

So, a total strategic force involving 5 Borey plus 180 ICBM plus 54 strategic bombers is more than enough to guarantee the deterrence.
Optimizations a posteriori are also possible.

So, hypothetically RS-24 will be something like a Scalpel with a guidance package borrowed from the Topol-m? :confused:

Impressive, anyway

Have they something named “Martin Pescador”? This is something like an AS IR-guided rocket.

I think, such a missile will be far bigger than the current BrahMos. Most likely it will fall in the category of the Granit (around 8 tn). The quantity if fuel loaded in it must be massive even if use an extremely efficient scramjet propulsion system. Maybe the Russians will offer some technologies from the GELA experimental vehicle.

Don-2P is a tracking and battle management radar. Its primary function is to provide target data to the A-135 missiles, not early-warning (even if it is the everyday-use function). Its performance (along with others EW Russian stations) was demonstrated during joint tests with the US Space command and Stratcom (high-resolution target discrimination and acquisition – measured on space-deployed microspherical targets of different sizes) where the Russian system was able to detect and track smaller-sized targets than the US one (that was in part due to the fact that the Russian algorithms were proven better suited for that – it’s not surprising since the Soviet math academia was still at its very best back then).

Volga and consorts are basically just EW, but with certain non-negligible target discrimination capability (they’re used for space surveillance as well). The performance of Voronezh-DM is classified, but it doesn’t seem that it has target acquisition and guidance functions. It is however designed to provide high-resolution tracking data. Rumour has it that they’re currenctly curing some problems on it – it exceeded design specs on sensitivity and is subject to too much clutter noise (“white screen syndrome”). They’re adapting the hard- and software on it presently.

So, the only radar that can guide interceptors is the Don-2NP. Volga and Daryal cannot. Furthermore, in principle, Voronezh-DM might be able to command some missiles too (after the resolution of these initial bugs, off-course). May be this is the “new and national” ABM architecture that Baluyevsky mentioned a months ago. To network the Don-2NP with the, now entering in service Voronezh-DM for battle management plus the retirement of older located in former-URSS countries, radars.

It may be an option to save the INF. To build BM and CM with a high accuracy and conventional a silo-buster warhead. Some Russians says Iskander range can be extended from 400 km to 500+ km (I wonder if this doesn’t degrade accuracy). This with a “long range” supersonic land-deployed BrahMos (that’s the thing that Indians are testing now). Both systems deployed in Kaliningrad in low numbers will permit to save the face of some Russian hardliners without threatening the real (aka.”old”) Europe.

Let’s wait and see.