Moscow Prepares Tests for Hypersonic Cruise Missiles
By: Roger McDermott
March 20, 2019 04:51 PM
Moscow is prioritizing the introduction and further development of high-precision weapons systems to boost its military capabilities. Most of these systems—both already actively deployed or still in development—had featured in Russian defense planning long before the United States announced this past February that it would suspend its participation in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. And yet, some Russian politicians are attempting to portray certain aspects of the drive to procure additional high-precision systems as a response to US policy. In reality, however, this process has long been underway, particularly when it comes to new hypersonic systems, which the political-military leadership is now emphasizing as a tool of coercion and strike capability against the US (see EDM, February 26).
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