Berlin, Germany (Weltexpress). Sooner or later, US politicians and their EU vassals will realise that, despite the gigantic US military apparatus, the United States has already lost its military superiority over Russia and is in the process of losing it to China as well.
In recent years, in all official US simulations of a non-nuclear war against Russia in Eastern Europe (see, for example, RAND), the Americans have suffered a crushing defeat within a very short time after the outbreak of hostilities. Even under the most favourable assumptions for their own side, e.g. in some simulations the Americans fought with fictitious state-of-the-art weapons, i.e. weapons that are still in the planning stage and whose capabilities will not be available to the US armed forces for many years, if at all.
This was the outcome of the war simulations and the assessment of the balance of power between the US and NATO on the one hand and Russia on the other, as seen by US experts at the end of 2020. But that means that the real paradigm shift, namely the results of the Russian military-technical revolution (MTR), which had been kept largely secret until then, had not yet been factored into the US war simulations. Rumours and isolated references in Russian publications about groundbreaking breakthroughs in the field of military technology were dismissed with the usual arrogance by the West as Russian wishful thinking.
It was only in the last three years, during Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, that the West got an idea of the groundbreaking and breathtaking technological breakthroughs achieved by Russian scientists and researchers, thanks to whose successes the armed forces of the Russian Federation have now introduced a whole range of new weapons into their combat formations. These weapons, which complement Russian tactics and strategy perfectly, have been successfully tested under real conditions many times in recent years. Further weapon systems are nearing completion, and we may only have seen the tip of the iceberg so far.
How could the military-technical balance between Russia, which was believed to be on its knees and arrogantly derided by Western politicians as a ‘gas station with missiles,’ and the United States, which was believed to be all-powerful, change so radically? The foundation for this was laid in the Soviet Union. At that time, there were twice as many mathematicians and scientists in the USSR as in the United States and NATO combined. Many of these scientists worked in basic research, including military research, where they pushed the boundaries of knowledge. However, much of their research could not be put into practice at the time because the necessary miniaturised tools were lacking. For example, it was not possible to install an extremely expensive supercomputer the size of a small car in a missile tip.
Nevertheless, the research results of Soviet scientists were not lost. However, they first ended up as blueprints in the drawers of strictly secured safes, where they were almost forgotten after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It was not until 2007 that people began to remember the blueprints again. This was triggered by the provocative and even hostile reaction of the collective West to President Putin’s speech at the so-called Munich ‘Security Conference’.
Putin had actually had the ‘audacity’ to criticise the ‘peace-loving’ NATO and its expansion to Russia’s borders, including the already discussed admission of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, as an unacceptable threat to Russian security interests, and declared that Russia would have to take appropriate countermeasures. The West laughed at Putin and portrayed him as someone who longs for the Soviet Union and wants to restart the Cold War.
The Russians have learned their lesson and started to reorganise and rebuild the remnants of the Red Army, taking into account the technological advances that have been made in the meantime, especially in microelectronics and chips. With their help, the performance of a supercomputer from the late 1980s, which had the volume of a small car, could now be reduced to a device the size of a shoebox, with the cost of these small technological marvels amounting to only a tiny fraction of what they had been in the past. Now there were inexpensive, small tools available to realise the technical blueprints that had been waiting in the armoured cabinets to be brought to life.
These Russian weapons consist, for example, of a whole range of hypersonic missiles using different technologies, some of which, such as the new intercontinental missile Avangard (Авангард), can reach speeds of 20,000 kilometres per hour. These new weapons are unique in the world. Even the USA has nothing like them and is generations behind in their development. There is no defence against these weapons, nor will there be any for the foreseeable future, because these weapons are not only incredibly fast. Many of these missiles also have another unique capability: they do not move rigidly along a predictable ballistic trajectory. Instead, they can change altitude or swerve sideways at lightning speed, presenting enemy missile defences with an impossible task.
In addition, Russia’s new missiles are extremely accurate and are also protected against electronic jamming. A salvo of Kinschal missiles fired from the Black Sea, for example, could sink an entire US aircraft carrier strike group with a dozen large ships in the eastern Mediterranean in a matter of minutes. This is also possible because the missiles communicate with each other in the final phase and coordinate their actions so that not all missiles hit the same ship, but as many targets as possible are destroyed.
The Kalibr (Калибр), another inexpensive Russian missile, can destroy both sea and deeply bunkered land targets. The Kalibr is a cruise missile with a range of 1,500 kilometres that can be fired from submarines and even small river vessels.
The Kalibr missile flies over enemy territory below radar altitude at subsonic speed, following the terrain and constantly changing course. Near its target, the missile accelerates to several times the speed of sound, enabling it to perform defensive high-speed manoeuvres at very high angles, unlike the usual linear trajectory of other cruise missiles. In other words, the missile cannot be intercepted by any technology currently available or foreseeable in the future.
