{"id":183277,"date":"2019-02-05T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183277"},"modified":"2019-02-09T05:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:07:46","slug":"russia-plans-new-missile-systems-to-counter-u-s-by-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183277","title":{"rendered":"Russia plans new missile systems to counter U.S. by 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Osborn \u2013 Reuters Feb 5, 2019<\/h1>\n

Russia will race to develop two new land-based missile launch systems before 2021 to respond to Washington\u2019s planned exit from a landmark nuclear arms control pact, it said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin said at the weekend that Russia had suspended the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which bans both nations from stationing short- and intermediate-range land-based missiles in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moscow and Washington accuse each other of violating the treaty and Putin said Russia had acted after the United States announced it was withdrawing from the pact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington had made clear it planned to start research, development and design work on new missile systems and Moscow would do the same, Putin said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Russian military should start work on creating land-based launch systems for an existing ship-launched cruise missile, the Kalibr, and for longer-range hypersonic missiles which travel at least five times the speed of sound, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) shakes hands with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, November 24, 2014. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday ordered work to begin on developing the new systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shoigu, a close Putin ally, said he wanted the work completed by the end of next year so the new systems were ready by 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Feb. 2, the United States suspended its obligations under the INF treaty,\u201d Shoigu told a meeting of defense chiefs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time they are actively working to create a land-based missile with a range of more than 500 km which is outside the treaty\u2019s limits. President Putin has given the defense ministry the task of taking symmetrical measures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Moscow denies flouting the 1987 pact. It says Washington is the one violating it and has accused the United States of inventing a false pretext to exit a treaty it wanted to leave anyway in order to develop new missiles. Washington denies that.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told a U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday that the United States would reconsider its withdrawal from the INF treaty \u201cshould Russia return to full and verifiable compliance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Russia\u2019s final opportunity to return to compliance,\u201d Wood said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In response to Washington\u2019s planned exit from a nuclear arms control agreement Moscow has announced that it will begin work on new missile launch systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183280,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183277\/revisions\/183280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}