An adversary could mistake them for a nuclear-armed missile.
Here s What You Need to Remember: An adversary observing a missile launch from an American SSGN might mistake it for a nuclear first strike. “These missiles shouldn’t be launched from anything resembling an SSBN,” Robert Farley, a University of Kentucky political scientist, noted on his blog.
Virginia-class attack submarines will be the first vessels in the fleet to carry a new hypersonic missile the service is developing.
Arming the Block V
Virginias with a hypersonic missile could help the Navy to fill the gap that the four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines will leave in the service’s overall firepower when the aging boats begin leaving service in the mid-2020s.
The Su-57 program remains under-funded and under-developed.
Here s What You Need to Remember: In light of the difficulties the Su-57 program faces, the purported second Syria deployment likely achieved as much as the 2018 deployment did. Nothing much.
The Russian air force deployed Su-57 stealth fighters to Syria a second time since first deploying them to the war-torn country in February 2018.
But that doesn’t mean the twin-engine Su-57 is any closer to being ready for mass production, to say nothing of its readiness for full-scale warfare against a high-tech foe.
The Russian military’s chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov announced the deployment in mid-December 2019, according to TASS.