A-235/PL-19 Nudol ABM-ASAT

Russians were mocked for using nuclear warheads for interceptors in the past, but they have no idea that the new short range versions are kinetic and the medium and long range are only nuclear.

Americans really are retards. How is an ASAT weapon any sort of "weaponization of space". By that "logic" the US ABM is also
a "weaponization of space".

Typical American double talk. This retarded accusation is meant for consumption by NATzOphile morons. This foolish drivel shouldn't be allowed to go unanswered, Russia needs to respond (and this needs to be echoed worldwide by RT and other Russian media assets) by pointing out that the US has possessed assets that have the same function for years. Another important point to make is that anti-satellite systems like Nudol are NOT "SPACE BASED" weapons so America needs a strong slap in the face for this Brazen Lie

Long arm "Nudoli"

Russian missile defense system with the introduction of a new complex will acquire unprecedented opportunities

On April 26, an event took place that made it extremely difficult for the Washington hawks to implement their aggressive plans against Russia: the successful launch of the A-235 Nudol missile, a combat element of a promising domestic anti-missile and anti-space systems.

Russia expands the combat capabilities of missile defense

" The flight speed of the A-235 Nudol anti-missile was at least three kilometers per second, which is more than four times the speed of a bullet fired from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. "

The press service of the Russian defense department reported that as a result of the test launch of a new Russian anti-missile missile, the task was completed in full: the target, located at a distance of about three thousand kilometers, was hit. According to Major General Sergei Grabchuk, commander of one of the formations of the Military Space Forces, the rocket not only hit the conditional target with a high degree of accuracy, but fully confirmed the characteristics laid down by the developer.

The flight speed of the A-235 Nudol missile was at least three kilometers per second, which is more than four times the speed of a bullet fired from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. According to Grabchuk, the adoption of the A-235 can not only radically improve the existing characteristics of the Russian missile defense, but also expand the range of its combat capabilities.

The information announced by the press service of the Ministry of Defense and disseminated by the official media can be positioned as a kind of announcement of the imminent introduction of the system tested at the Kazakhstani test site into the structure of the national missile defense, where it should become an effective replacement for the A-135 system that is currently protecting the Russian capital " Amur".
What the West will say

Most foreign military analysts, considering the results of the Nudoli range tests, are of the opinion that the testing period for a promising Russian missile defense system will soon end, whose main task will be, first of all, to reliably protect Moscow and the Central Industrial Region of the Russian Federation from intercontinental ballistic missiles of a potential enemy.

Most representatives of the Western expert community position the A-235 project as a top secret and deadly development. Their fears are at least justified. The main danger of "Nudoli", in their opinion, lies in the possibility of its dual, that is, anti-missile and anti-space applications. And some foreign experts directly call the destruction of American space satellites the key goal of this program. And this is despite the fact that an impartial analysis of the combat potential of the promising Russian A-235 system as a probable factor threatening the designs of the United States forces us to recognize the prevalence of its anti-missile version over the anti-satellite one.

The 2014 Crimean referendum on the return of the peninsula to Russia and the subsequent sharp deterioration in relations with Washington and Brussels forced the political and military leadership of the Russian Federation to take decisive measures to create an effective "nuclear umbrella" over strategically important regions of the country.

The US administration, expecting somewhat different dividends from the Kiev Maidan, did not immediately accept the seriousness of Russian intentions and slept not only the reunification of Crimea, but also the beginning of the “Russian spring”. However, Washington realized the colossal image losses inflicted on it and unleashed an information, diplomatic and sanctions war against the Russian Federation. The ghost of the third world (war) has risen over the world again.

No matter how strange it may sound, the first dove of peace that made the overseas hawks think about the inevitability of a retaliatory strike was a photo in the calendar of 2015, in which the Almaz-Antey Military Space Defense Concern JSC presented an anti-missile launcher unknown to the American special services. A well-organized leak has perfectly fulfilled its mission - it has instilled in the hot heads of the apologists for a global nuclear strike the idea of ​​the reality of a response from Russia. In addition, the high international authority of Almaz-Antey did not allow Western analysts to ignore the signal. The Pentagon decided not to rush things and wait for the results of the first tests.

In November 2015, The Washington Times published an article by national security expert Bill Hertz, which described the successful completion of the first test of the A-235. It is noteworthy that this launch was not a starting one. The first Nudoli test that fulfilled its task took place back in August 2014. The next few years were spent on fine-tuning a promising interceptor missile, which, in light of its unique ability to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles, even in space, looks quite justified and logical.

Obviously, the news of the successful result of the field tests acquired the status of a sensation, and for Pentagon analysts it also became a source of headaches. The absence in the Western information field of loud discussions of the news announced by the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry testifies not only to Washington's unwillingness to draw the attention of the world community to this topic, but also to the Americans' unconditional understanding of the seriousness of the changed situation. Analysts of the American special services cannot fail to understand that the introduction of the A-235 "Nudol" system in combination with the supercomputer "Elbrus-3M" providing ultra-fast control and the multifunctional circular-view radar station "Don-2N" will provide the Russian Federation with a multi-level missile defense system, overcome which ICBMs available to NATO are not possible.The new promising complex will be able to effectively intercept enemy air attack weapons in high, middle and lower space.

What distinguishes "Nudol"

According to Viktor Murakhovsky, a member of the Expert Council of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, the key characteristics that fundamentally distinguish the A-235 from the currently functioning missile defense systems are a high degree of mobility and the possibility of non-nuclear destruction of warheads of intercontinental ballistic missiles of a potential enemy. Taking into account the level of mutual velocities, the indicator of which at the moment of interception can reach 10 kilometers per second, the presence of an explosive in the warhead is no longer a necessity.

Obviously, domestic developers have demonstrated to their opponents the ability to create an anti-missile for the implementation of confident transatmospheric interception, that is, at altitudes exceeding one hundred kilometers.

It is noteworthy that the process of removing any restrictions for the upcoming deployment of an anti-missile defense system, the key element of which will be the A-235 Nudol launchers, was launched by Russia's main potential adversary. It was the actions of the United States, which consisted of a unilateral withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and dated at the beginning of the 2000s, ensured its denunciation. Therefore, the Russian Federation is not only legally free in the choice of territorial areas for the deployment of the national anti-missile and anti-space defense system, but also is not obliged to agree with anyone on the number of its constituent elements. The prospect of the widest possible application of the Nudol system is becoming more than obvious, in no way limited to the protection of the capital region.

The concept of a rapid global strike, adopted by the United States, including by means of hypersonic air attack weapons, predetermines appropriate steps on the part of the political and military leadership of the Russian Federation. They involve the organization of cover with A-235 systems for the areas of deployment of formations and units of the Strategic Missile Forces, the bases of strategic missile submarine cruisers, industrially important territories and facilities (hydroelectric power plants, nuclear power plants).

According to experts in the field of missile defense of the analytical portal South Front, the combination of such promising weapons as the S-500 Prometheus long-range and medium-range anti-aircraft missile system and the A-235 Nudol system can provide the Russian Federation with an integrated defense of the air and outer space. level that should be positioned as a "nuclear umbrella". The very one, the possession of which minimizes the hopes for success of Washington's apologists for the concept of a quick global strike. The publication believes that in no more than five years, the President of the Russian Federation will have a strategic nuclear potential, allowing the Washington administration to issue binding ultimatums.

Nevertheless, the main source of excitement for overseas analysts remains the anti-satellite capabilities of the Russian promising system. According to ex-Pentagon official Mark Schneider, the Russian interceptor missile is capable of destroying the entire "confrontation potential" of the United States, based on satellites. And besides, Nudol is vivid proof that there is a huge asymmetry in relation to space weapons.

The Minister of Defense of Marius Blaschak, who is permanently grieving about the former greatness of Poland, went even further, and traditionally accused the Russian president of trying to restore the empire. Translated from the Polish political into the publicly available Russian, the insult is that thanks to the achievements of the domestic military-industrial complex in general and the A-235 Nudol in particular, "Sherkhan is no longer able to protect his ever-whining Tabaki."

Cosmic fears of the "hegemonic power"

Understanding of these hysterical characteristics of the potential of the promising Russian project A-235 lies in the plane of the Pentagon's conviction that the Russian Federation is striving to limit the “extraterrestrial” capabilities of the “lord of the globe and its cosmic environs” as much as possible, depriving him of the ability to wage small victorious wars even with third world countries. Because the success, for example, of the hostilities against Iraq in 2003, in the opinion of most overseas analysts, was only possible thanks to the GPS navigation system and spy satellites.

There is a hypothesis about the desire of the Americans to use small and ultra-small satellites of the Cubesat and Nanosat format as full-fledged substitutes for a space military group in the event of its destruction by Russian anti-missile missiles. Thus, reasonable doubts about the civilian specialization of commercial satellites launched by NASA are transformed into confidence about their at least dual purpose. And the key task of such a distributed architecture of the space group is, according to the Pentagon, the creation of a means of salvation from absolute "information blindness and deafness."

However, the version of the US military department is not shared by analysts of the conservative American edition of the National Interest, which specializes in international politics. They believe that as a result of the destruction of even one space satellite in orbit by an anti-missile system, a situation will arise, the description of which, in their interpretation, looks like this: “A cloud of dangerous debris is formed around the planet, other satellites of any nation for decades or even centuries. "

Such conclusions are indirectly confirmed by the consequences of tests of space weapons, in the organization of which some states, primarily the United States, show recklessness bordering on dementia. As an example, to put it mildly, the short-sighted behavior of the Pentagon, which is always dissatisfied with the Russian actions, can be cited the fact of the destruction of its own spy satellite in 2008. The wreckage of this spacecraft is still flying around the planet, creating a real danger to all space groups in space.

They did not displease the Pentagon, which is well aware, according to the statements of Lieutenant General David D. Thompson about these plans, the actions of India, which in March 2019 shot down its LEO satellite with a modified ballistic missile and made its contribution to turning the orbit into a garbage dump ...

Obviously, such loyalty instantly evaporates as soon as it comes to cosmic tests conducted by Russians who are always guilty of all mortal sins.

A-235 or THAAD

It would be surprising if expert reflections on the unprecedented success of the Russians, who finally mastered the analogue of the American THAAD system, did not appear in the media space of the collective West. It is obvious that the arrogant conviction of a certain cohort of Western specialists that all promising models of modern weapons are only more or less successful copies of the achievements of America and its allies cannot be influenced by any form of objective reality.

Nevertheless, the comparison of the A-235 "Nudol" with the American mobile ground-based anti-missile complex THAAD cannot be avoided. An analysis of the known test results of the American missile defense system shows its inability to effectively intercept ICBMs. It is geared towards protection against medium and short-range missiles. And the fact that only four of the planned eight batteries are currently deployed suggests that the Pentagon is aware of its actual combat capabilities.

And now about the basic version of the Russian anti-missile and anti-space defense system A-235 "Nudol". Naturally, there are no exact data on the characteristics of a development project with such a name in open sources, and the available information is limited to reports of positive results of the tests carried out. However, the information available in open sources suggests that the A-235 is based on three key principles:

1. Non-nuclear interception, significantly expanding the scope of practical application of the anti-missile.

2. High level of mobility.

3. Ensuring effective interception in near space, that is, in the altitude range of 500-750 kilometers.

It is obvious that the political and military leadership of the Russian Federation considers the combination of the A-235 Nudol and S-500 Prometheus systems as the very “nuclear umbrella” of multi-stage missile defense that forms the basis of Russia's global anti-nuclear defense system.
Vitaly Orlov

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