unz | But there is more bad news for the AngloZionist Empire: in a recent interview by General Iurii Borisov,
Deputy Prime Minister for Defense and Space Industry named six weapons
systems which, in his opinion, have no counterpart in western arsenals.
These include two almost never (or very rarely) mentioned before:
- The “Sarmat” heavy MIRVed ICBM
- The Sukhoi Su-57 aka “PAKFA”, the 5th generation jet fighter being developed for air superiority and attack operations
- The revolutionary T-14 “Armata” main battle tank
- The long-range S-500 air defense system
- The mobile anti-satellite system “Nudol“
- The ground-based mobile jamming system for satellite communications “Triada-2S“
While
the first four systems listed have been known for a while, very little
is known about the Nudol ASAT or the Triada-2S jamming systems. A couple
of years ago, in 2015, The Washington Free Beacon wrote one article
about the Nudol system entitled “Russia Flight Tests Anti-Satellite Missile Moscow joins China in space warfare buildup”
but I did not find anything at all in English about the Triada-2S.
There are a few articles published about these two systems in Russian
however, and I will summarize them here beginning with the Nudol system.
The
Russian plan to counter the US military threat is becoming clearer and
clearer with each passing day. I would summarize as follows:
| US Capability | Russian Response |
|---|---|
| ABM system | maneuverable hypersonic ballistic and very long-range cruise missiles |
| US aircraft carriers and surface fleet | maneuverable hypersonic ballistic and very long-range cruise missiles |
| US airpower and cruise missiles | advanced and integrated air defenses + 5th generation multirole fighters |
| US attack submarines | advanced diesel-electric/AIP submarines in littoral and coastal waters |
| US command, control, communications, networks, and satellites | electronic warfare and anti-satellite systems |
| US/NATO deployments near Russia | Tank Armies with T-14s, doubling of the size of the Airborne Forces, Iskander missiles (see here) |
| US nuclear forces | Deployment of a next-generation SSBNs, road-mobile and rail-mobile ICBMs, PAK-DA (next generation bomber) and ABM systems |
By
targeting US space-based capabilities Russia is aiming at an exceedingly
important and currently extremely fragile segment of the US armed
forces and the impact of that cannot be overstated. It is already well
known that the US military has almost no practice operating in a highly
contested electronic warfare environment and that, in fact, US EW
capabilities have stagnated over the years. In the age of advanced
communication and network-centric warfare, the disruption or elimination
of any meaningful segment of the US space-based capabilities would have
a dramatic impact on US warfighting capabilities. Just like US tactical
air is practically completely dependent on AWACs support, all the
branches of the US military have grown accustomed to enjoying advanced
command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance,
and reconnaissance capabilities (C4ISR) and this is what the Russians
want to deny them (and you can bet that the Chinese are working along
the exact same lines).
This is not to say that Russia has achieved anywhere near full-spectrum dominance
over the United States but it does mean that the United States has
totally failed in its efforts to achieve anything near full-spectrum
dominance over Russia and, therefore, over the rest of the planet. It is
important to understand that while, for the US, it is crucial to
achieving superiority, for Russia it is enough to deny that superiority
to the US. Russia, therefore, has no need to achieve anything even
remotely resembling full-spectrum dominance over the US/NATO – all she
needs to achieve is to make it impossible for the Empire to make her
submit by force or threat of force.
