/ world today news/ Threats to Russia’s security are growing, what will be the answer?
In light of the frankly reckless actions of the ruling circles of the West, which create increasingly serious threats to Russia’s security, the assessment of the current military-political situation as an impending nuclear war no longer seems too pessimistic.
The decisions taken at the Vilnius meeting regarding the further priorities of military support of the Kiev regime were sealed by the US ruling circles on the eve of this “decorative”, essentially, event. In an interview with CNN the day before the summit opened, Biden mentioned fighter jets and longer-range missiles as potential nuclear weapons.
As for the F-16, this fact is not even particularly hidden. Here, for example, is a photo published in the publication of the Federation of American Scientists in 2014. The caption under this photo completely exhausts all questions about the F-16 nuclear mission:
„An F-16C/D Block 40E nuclear bomb carrier (carrier number 89-4030) of the 510th Fighter Squadron (Buzzards) of the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Force Base in Italy is in service at Lask Air Force Base in Poland in July 2014. “
Regarding the nuclear capabilities of the ATACMS ballistic missile, the US military command follows the rule of non-disclosure of such sensitive information. However, the very history of this type of missile that came in the 80s. of the last century to replace the OTP MGM-52 Lance, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, speaks for itself and is indirectly confirmed in American military publications.
In addition, according to the same publications, in addition to the nuclear warhead, the new missile, like the old one, is planned, in addition to the nuclear version, as a carrier of chemical and bacteriological weapons. This is also not harmful to remember, given that there are no longer any “red lines” in the Ukrainian war for our Western colleagues.
„Development of the missile, now known as ATACMS, began in 1980 when the US Air Force decided to replace the Lance with a similar nuclear, but also chemical or biological, solid-propellant missile called the Corps Support Weapon System (CSWS).
In addition, it should be borne in mind that the probability that OTR ATACMS are already on the territory of Ukraine and, possibly, even used in military operations, is by no means zero. Such a possibility, in particular, shows the already confirmed American practice of secret delivery of certain types of weapons that do not appear in the lists of delivered weapons until the stage of their mass use. This is exactly what happened, in particular, with the American anti-radar anti-aircraft missile HARM.
08/21/2022: “One of the likely culprits that experts believe may have been used in the Saki attack is an Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). The Lockheed Martin-made tactical ballistic missile can be fired from the M142 HIMARS or M270 MLRS that Ukraine currently has. With an even greater range than the M31 GMLRS missiles, the ATACMS will reach any target within a 190-mile radius of the launcher in the Ukrainian military’s area of operation, including Crimea.
ATACMS are also more destructive than M31 GMLRS missiles. Being a larger single round, it takes up an entire “bay” in the launcher compared to the six M31 GMLRs. The ATACMS also concentrates all 500 pounds of its warhead on a single target, traveling at a supersonic speed of Mach 3.5. This makes it almost impossible to intercept it with air defense systems or capture it on video.
There is one more circumstance that makes the presence of American ATACMS missiles on Ukrainian territory even more likely:
„The ATACMS launch container has a six-round cover like the standard MLRS missile cover, but contains only one missile – the identical pattern makes it difficult for enemy intelligence to identify it as a high-value target.”
In other words, even with visual contact with a missile launcher in close proximity to it, it is practically impossible to determine which missile is in the launch container.
All this indicates that the Western deployment of tactical nuclear weapons carriers in close proximity to Russia’s main political centers and economic regions has either ended or is very close to it.
Meanwhile, nominally tactical weapons, if only because of their proximity to Russian territory, are equivalent in terms of the degree of danger to the Russian Federation to an adversary’s strategic nuclear forces advanced to our borders at point blank range. And with very dubious chances of a successful retaliatory strike from our side.
The Russian leadership, of course, is aware of the growing nuclear threat literally every day, as well as the readiness of the Western rulers to take any measures against our country in order to break its resistance.
The transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine’s armed forces will be seen by Russia as a threat from the West in the nuclear sphere, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said:
„Just one example of an extremely dangerous development is the US plans to transfer F-16 fighter jets to the Kiev regime. We have informed the nuclear forces of the United States, Great Britain and France that Russia cannot ignore the capability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. No assurances will help here … in the course of hostilities, our military will have no way of knowing whether each specific aircraft of the specified type is equipped for the delivery of nuclear weapons or not … The very fact of the appearance of such systems in the armed forces of Ukraine will be seen by us as a threat from the West in the nuclear sphere.
In this regard, we highlight several fundamentally important points.
First, the scale of the immediate nuclear threat to Russia should not be reduced to the fact of the possible delivery of F-16s to the Kiev regime. In the same context, it is necessary to consider all other types of combat aircraft still in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, almost all of which (Su-24, Su-27, Su-25, MiG-29) are potentially capable to carry nuclear bombs. As for the possibility of adapting them to the respective tasks, it has already been fully proven by the installation of equipment for the use of other NATO ammunition on these aircraft.
Secondly, there is a more than current and extremely important question about the optimal and most effective ways for Russia to counter this far from conditional and, to be honest, critical threat to the security of our country. In this regard, it is appropriate to recall the recent statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who refused to guarantee Russia’s refusal to launch a nuclear first strike because there may be no options for a second:
„… as for the threat of nuclear war … such a threat is growing, it is a sin to hide here.”
Regarding the fact that Russia will not under any circumstances implement it first. But if under no circumstances you use it first, then it will not be used in the second either, since the possibilities of its application in the event of a nuclear attack on our territory are very limited.
In this regard, the clarifying statement of Sergey Lavrov that “in the course of hostilities, our military has no way of knowing whether or not any particular aircraft of the specified type is equipped to deliver a nuclear weapon,” it is correct to understand it in the broadest sense. sense, that is, not only, but perhaps not so much in terms of countering enemy aircraft or missiles already flying in our direction with nuclear weapons. Because such a response would be delayed, to say the least, and does not guarantee effective disruption of a nuclear attack at this final stage.
Thirdly, accordingly, it is necessary to launch a pre-emptive strike not against aircraft and missiles in the air, but directly at the points of their combat duty or stationary deployment, that is, at airfields and missile bases that can be used to launch such an attack. As actually stipulated by the Russian military doctrine.
We repeat once again – to wait for the threat to take a final form is to doom yourself to defeat. Simply because nuclear bombs already stockpiled on enemy airfields can be attached to aircraft in a matter of minutes, undetected by our surveillance equipment, and ATACMS missiles with nuclear warheads, under the guise of conventional missiles, can be carried out on stratospheric positions.
A typical example is Poland’s Lask Air Force Base, where NATO’s F-35 and F-16 nuclear bombers are on constant combat duty. It is impossible to imagine that the airport, where such aircraft are located, did not have stocked and suitable special equipment. This defies basic military logic, and it is obvious that there are already ready-made nuclear bombs there. Meanwhile, the distance from the Lask base to the borders of Russia and Belarus is less than 400 km. That is, if the West decides to launch a nuclear first strike, we will have very little time to react (not to mention nuclear missiles).
In addition, from 2024 Poland itself, whose nuclear ambitions are well known, will begin to receive aircraft with a similar strike configuration F -35. And, characteristically, they will also be based at the same supposedly “nuclear-free” Lask Air Base:
“The Polish F -35 Lightning II will be based at Lask / 32. Baza Lotnictwa Taktycznego (32.BLT, 32nd Tactical Air Base). This air base is currently home to 10. Eskadra Lotnictwa Taktycznego (10th Tactical Fighter Squadron), operating the F-16C and F-16D Fighting Falcon. The contract for the purchase of 32 F-35A Lightning II Block 4 fighters was signed on January 31, 2020. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2024.”
Taking into account the military-political situation, the delivery time of the F -35 to Poland can be adjusted in the direction of acceleration
At the same time, the aircraft of what nationality – Polish, Dutch or Ukrainian, which will be based at the airports of the same Poland – will drop B-61-12 thermonuclear bombs on our heads, it does not matter to us in principle. It is quite sufficient that the relevant nuclear arsenal exists and is ready for combat use at any moment.
In fact, Russia has a very simple choice. Either live permanently with a NATO nuclear “gun” pointed at her temple, even risking losing the opportunity to strike back (this is the risk that Vladimir Putin had in mind), or neutralize this threat without waiting for it to materialize .
The choice is extremely difficult. In fact, the most difficult in the history of mankind. And there will no longer be an opportunity to review it, so to speak, “rewind the film”. But such a situation is created not by Russia, but by the West, which consistently crosses all the “red lines” of security, the categorical inadmissibility of which Russia constantly warned it.
It is precisely as a result of the actions of the West that a situation has been created today in which the risk of a nuclear strike has increased to such an extent that the possibility and necessity of preventive actions has become practically indisputable for Russia. In any case, Russia is definitely not going to sit back and meekly wait for us to be destroyed.
Translation: ES
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