{"id":221269,"date":"2020-11-27T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=221269"},"modified":"2020-11-29T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T08:16:20","slug":"russia-successfully-tests-new-missile-capable-of-destroying-western-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=221269","title":{"rendered":"Russia successfully tests new missile capable of destroying Western satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Russia also successfully tested the hypersonic Zircon missile<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; Plus second weapon &#8216;to be used on US cities in event of nuclear war&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The first is a long-range extraterrestrial interceptor missile called 14Ts033 Nudol<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>US officials fear it could be used to destroy Western satellites in low earth orbit\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The second test saw Russia launch a March 8 Zircon missile, a Putin favourite<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is said to be President&#8217;s weapon of choice to attack America in a nuclear war\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Will Stewart \u2013 Mail Online Nov 26, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Russia <\/strong>has successfully tested a new missile capable of destroying Western satellites, followed by another weapon &#8216;to be used on US cities in the event of a nuclear war&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The US warned that the first missile tested will be capable of destroying Western satellites in low earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Russia today claimed a successful test launch of its new-age 6,000 mph hypersonic Zircon missile.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating weapon has been identified by Moscow&#8217;s state-controlled TV as Russian President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/vladimir_putin\/index.html\"><strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s weapon of choice to wipe out American cities in the event of nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>He has called the Mach 8 Zircon &#8211; or Tsirkon &#8211; &#8216;truly unparalleled \u2026 in the world&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_221270\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/anti-satellite-missile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/anti-satellite-missile.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/anti-satellite-missile-480x267.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 634px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-221270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia has said it successfully tested a new missile that the US has warned could destroy Western low-earth orbit satellites. Pictured: A photo shared by Russia&#8217;s Ministry of Defence of the test launch<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Of the first test, new video has been released of the potential satellite destroyer by the Russian Defence Ministry showing the first missile which &#8216;is designed to protect against air and space attacks&#8217;, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was conducted at the Sary-Shagan testing range in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The new missile \u2026 has reliably confirmed its characteristics in a series of tests,&#8217; claimed Andrey Dyomin, commander of the 1st air and missile defence army of Russian aerospace forces<\/p>\n<p>However, no detail was given about the missile&#8217;s precise performance in the test, or the target, and the weapon remains shrouded in considerable secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of the United States Space Command John Raymond said in April that such Russian extraterrestrial interceptor missiles pose a challenge to U.S. interests in near space.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond claimed that this Russian system is capable of destroying satellites in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The threats to US space systems and [their] allies are real, serious and increasing,&#8217; he warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8991183\/Russia-successfully-tests-new-missile-capable-destroying-Western-satellites.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition Russia also conducted a successful test of its Zircon hypersonic missile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":214708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-221269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/221269","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=221269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221272,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221269\/revisions\/221272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}