Aircraft Carriers Are Now Floating Coffins

Gary North - November 20, 2017

Here are videos from Russia, courtesy of Wikileaks. Note the accuracy: tiny targets, long distances--over 150 miles away. This is a cruise missile.

They can be fired from a mid-sized ship, such as a cruiser or a submarine. They can be fired from a jet plane.

There is no defense.

Second, the Yu-71 ICBM. It is long range. It can carry at least 10 MIRVed nuclear warheads.

The basics:

Max Speed: from Mach 5, according to Scott Ritter, to Mach 9, according to a quasi official Russian source, to Mach 15, acccording to Sputnik, to Mach 20 (that’s 7 kilometer per second, or 25’200kh/h, or 15’000mph), according to Global Security. Whatever the true speed, it will be fantastic and far, far beyond the kind of speeds current or foreseeable US anti-missile systems could hope to engage

Hypermaneuverability: Russian sources describe the Yu-71 as a “hypermaneuverable warhead”. What that exactly means in turns of sustained Gs does not really matter as this is not about air-to-air combat, but about the ability to perform sudden course changes making it close to impossible for anti-missile systems to calculate an engagement solution.

Warhead: nuclear and conventional/kinetic.

That last line is very interesting. What it means is that considering the speeds attained by the Yu-71 HGV it is not necessary to equip it with a conventional (high explosive) or nuclear warhead. The kinetic energy generated by its high speed is sufficient to create an explosion similar to what a large conventional or small nuclear warhead could generate. . . .

an attack which can come from any direction
speed of attack and maneuver capabilities which make interception impossible
the capability for Russia to destroy a very high value US target in a very short time

But wait! There's more! More what? More missiles. Click here.

There are no defenses.

Bottom line: Don't escalate the confrontation. No more blustering rhetoric. Let bygones be bygones.