All the races of India and Russia to hypersonic weapons

It is difficult to deny that a global rearmament is underway both in the hypersonic missile sector and in the nuclear warhead ballistic missile sector, as shown by two recent episodes: the first relating to India and the second relating to Russia.

WHAT INDIA DOES

Let's start from India. On October 27, India tested the Agni-5 ballistic missile, which departed from the island of Abdul Kalam.

From a technological point of view, this missile is capable of striking at a distance of 5,000 km and can carry nuclear warheads. It is superfluous to observe how this text is fully and fully coherent in the project of a strategy called a credible minimum deterrence, and how this test is certainly a political signal towards China, and in particular in relation to the numerous tensions that are registered in the last time in relation to the so-called Line of Effective Control (LAC), ie the de facto border between India and China.

WHAT RUSSIA DOES

As for Russia, the statements by the Chief of Staff of the Command of the Submarine Forces of the Pacific Fleet, namely Arkady Navarsky, are of extreme interest because they underline that Russia – like China – attaches great importance to missiles. intercontinental ballistics.

Specifically, the chief of staff stressed that the R-30 Bulava missiles are unassailable. This type of intercontinental missile was certified by the nuclear-powered submarine cruiser Vladimir Monomakh on 12 December 2020. The missile is capable of reaching a range of 9300 km.