Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces are ready to react to any nuclear strike even if it is lightning fast, SMF Central Command chief said. A retaliatory strike would take place in all circumstances, “without hesitation,” he added.
“If there’s a challenge to repel a lightning-fast nuclear in any given conditions – it will be done in fixed time, that’s dead true,” the Strategic Missile Forces Central Command’s chief, Major-General Andrey Burbin, told Russian News Service on Saturday.
Russia’s strategic missile forces are positioned geographically in such a way that no global strike can knock them out completely, Burbin said.
In case an order is given to carry out a nuclear strike, Russian nuclear weapons operators will fulfill it, he added.
“There would be no hesitation, the task would be executed,” he said.
The unavoidability of a retaliatory nuclear strike from Russia is also guaranteed by the fully automatic and constantly modernized ‘Perimeter’ system, also known as “Dead hand.”
The system collects data from various sources, such as radioactivity and seismic sensors scattered throughout Russia, by scanning radio frequencies and communication activities.
If pooled data indicates that Russia has suffered a nuclear strike, the system launches special missiles that travel through national airspace, sending launch signals to all surviving strategic nuclear missile complexes. In this case a retaliatory missile strike is launched without human input.
Burbin also told RSN that rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces is ongoing as planned and by 2020 up to 98 percent of Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces will be armed with brand new weapons.Trying the heat up a notch. This should drive the neocons and wars hawks like John McCain ballistic.
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Russia ready to repel any nuke strike, retaliate – missile forces command chief
sending launch signals to all surviving strategic nuclear missile complexes. In this case a retaliatory missile strike is launched without human input.
ReplyDeleteIf true, that's pretty scary.
We live in a crazy world. :(
mutually assured destruction.
ReplyDeleteWhat this is saying in effect is that under any circumstance the Northern Hemisphere will be uninhabitable for centuries.
That's what MAD entails. William Polk describes how the People around Kennedy at the time of the Cuban missile crisis fully realized this.
Very scary. That's the point of nuclear deterrence. There is no winner, only nuclear winter.
Interesting that the Russians are sending this signal loud and clear in case any of the leaders of the West are unclear about it.
They are saying up front that these are the stakes and keeping NATO out of our backyard is in out vital interest. Don't go poking in the bear's liar.
Given that the inmates are in charge of the asylums in Washington, I'd suggest they boost the signal.
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