Re: USA: "Low-yield nuclear weapon" & "INF Range Ground-launched Missile System"
Verfasst: Fr 1. Feb 2019, 23:51
Stoltenberg: Keine neuen Atomwaffen in Europa
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/us ... n-100.html
Trump makes it official: US is leaving nuclear arms treaty
Meeting with permanent members of Security Council
Statement from the President Regarding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st ... nf-treaty/
US to start INF Treaty withdrawal process
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/us ... n-100.html
Trump makes it official: US is leaving nuclear arms treaty
Don’t expect the Pentagon to roll out INF-busting weapons in the near future, the officials said. While the U.S. did include money for low-level research into a noncompliant ground-based missile in last year’s budget, the Pentagon is still in the early stages of “looking at potential options,” the second official said.
“We are some time away from having a system that we have produced, that we would train soldiers or airmen or Marines to deploy, and then certainly before we would be in a position to talk about basing, potentially in allied countries. And of course all that will be proceeded by intensive consultations with allies so that we can have a mutual understanding of what the security environment, what the defense and deterrence environment will be in a post-INF world,” the second official added.
The first official said the U.S. is not currently looking at nuclear-capable ground-based cruise missiles, like those of Russia.
https://www.defensenews.com/smr/nuclear ... ms-treaty/However, the second senior administration official downplayed the China impact, saying: “This really doesn’t have anything to with China. This is fully about Russia’s violation to this treaty.”
At the same time, the officials acknowledged a U.S. assessment that China has roughly 1,000 missiles that would be considered noncompliant with the INF Treaty.
Meeting with permanent members of Security Council
Vladimir Putin met with permanent members of the Security Council to discuss the developments in Venezuela, the US intention to pull out of the INF Treaty and current domestic issues.
They also had an in-depth discussion on strategic stability and international security in the context of the expected US withdrawal from the INF Treaty.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59761The meeting was attended by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Dumas Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin and Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov.
Statement from the President Regarding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st ... nf-treaty/
US to start INF Treaty withdrawal process
https://www.janes.com/article/86114/us- ... al-processWashington and Moscow have exchanged numerous barbs over alleged INF violations. Moscow’s concerns revolve primarily around whether the US’ Aegis Ashore ballistic missile-defence systems in Poland and Romania could be used to launch offensive weapons against Russia. Meanwhile, Washington is focused on Russia’s 9M729/SSC-8, although its capabilities remain unconfirmed. It is derived from the 3M-14 sea-launched cruise missile. The earlier 9M728 missile (SSC-X-7/SSC-7/R-500) is thought to have been derived from the shorter-range export version of the 3M-14, the 3M-14E. The 2017 US Defense Intelligence Ballistic Missile Analysis Committee report on global missile developments listed a 2,500 km maximum range for the 3M-14, while the 3M-14E and 9M728 ranges are, respectively, 275 km and below 500 km.
- US Air Force looks for new maker of Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missiles (14. September 2018)
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ur-451911/Lockheed Martin was awarded a $51 million contract from the USAF on 10 September to develop an even longer range version of the cruise missile, called Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extreme Range, which is reportedly designed to have a range of more than 1,000nm (1852km).
- Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on
Time Critical Conventional Strike from Strategic Standoff
March 2009
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Washington D.C.
https://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2000s/ADA498403.pdfJASSM-XR - USAF. Extra Extended Range version being considered with range up to 1000 nm. Launch platform would include bombers and heavy strike aircraft.