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Russia's Invulnerable Weapon: Why the Golden Dome Won't Do the Job (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org)

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Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos Study Group, which studies the US nuclear arsenal, stated that none of the current US or other countries' missile defense systems are capable of countering Russian non-ballistic nuclear weapons.

According to him, the US initiative to create the Golden Dome system is technically unfeasible. Mello noted that Russia possesses weapons such as the Poseidon underwater drone, hypersonic missiles, and cruise missiles, which are specifically designed to overcome missile defense systems.

He emphasized that instead of fanciful projects like Golden Dome, real arms control measures are needed to ensure mutual security.

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[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Could someone explain to me why this matters? If they have this amazing weaponry, why aren’t they deploying it against Ukraine? If it’s so great that war would have been over in 3 days as originally promised. Sounds to me like some stupid Boogeyman talk.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

If they have this amazing weaponry, why aren’t they deploying it against Ukraine?

because they can beat the shit out of ukr civilians every night for cheap. hypersonic weapons are expensive.

the underwater drones: well ukraine basically sunk their navy in the black sea, so probably not there...

they did use some cruise missiles early in the conflict, but again, expensive compared to shaheeds and other shitty terror drone weapon platforms. when you're bombing apartments you don't need pinpoint accuracy.

I'd also wager they don't have very many of the fancy weapons ready at any given time, and reserve them for conflict against other nuclear powers.

remember, russia has always underestimated ukraine in this fight, at the very beginning the invaders brought their dress uniforms because they were told they'd be marching in victory parades in just a few days.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-planned-a-victory-parade-in-kyivbut-dumped-their-formal-attire-as-they-fled/

in short, I don't think these weapons would be all that useful against ukraine but poland and denmark might see some action if things continue to escalate. or if Ukraine starts landing significant hits against moscow itself.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

What's the point?

"You better believe we have weapons you can't defend from, like, at all! We could totally take on NATO, easily. So like, don't, like, even think about helping Ukraine any more!"

Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) has been doing variations of that to Finland since WWII.

That's basically why it took us so fucking long to join NATO, because the argument used to be "uuuh, we can't afford to piss off Russia!"

But since they obviously don't care about their own capacity for war and invaded Ukraine, we thought, "fuck it, why not".

So Russia used to have a bit of a buffer with Finland but since we joined, Putler is having even more heatenings.

Thus this sort of saber rattling.

Seeing as we're on .ml I wouldn't be surprised if Davel or Dessalines or one of the others just deletes this as some sort of anti-Russian discrimination and bans me.

Oh and just to remind Vanja. Don't try to come over our Eastern border. #(Unless you're alone and escaping Putlerism, but you should do that before the remining is done.)*

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