The most heavily defended city in the world is not Washington, DC. It’s Moscow.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Despite the new missiles, the future for Moscow’s ABM system is unclear. Much of the existing system is old and will eventually need replacing. That will be expensive, and Russia’s defense spending has begun falling again.
The most heavily defended city in the world is not Washington, DC. It’s Moscow. While the District of Columbia has legions of Secret Service and Homeland Security police defending it, the Russian capital is the only one in the world that we know of defended with nuclear-tipped missiles. It’s all the result of an exception built into a forty-four-year-old arms control treaty.
On December 15, Russia carried out the anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test from
Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Oblast. The Russian government issued an advisory for civilian traffic to stay out of the areas highlighted in red below. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
Probably Nudol from Plesetsk will be launched on December 16, reserve date December 20.
On December 14, the launch of Angara-A5 from Plesetsk.
Is it possible that Angara-A5 , in addition to the satellite, should launch a real target for the Nudol ? pic.twitter.com/3jfILvoVTX Evgeniy Maksimov (@PararamTadam) December 12, 2020