Russian Nuclear Glider Sets Nervousness Among Military Powerhouses

Russian Nuclear Glider Sets Nervousness Among Military Powerhouses

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The lethal hypersonic nuclear glider that looks to revolutionize the whole defense aviation  industry can cover the distance from Moscow to London within 13 minutes and penetrate NATOs missile defense system.

After launching initial tests on Russia’s first futuristic glider last year as part of Russia’s 4202 Project, the aircraft, according to the British “Daily Star” is ready for intense use.

According to Sputnik.com, the glider can travel at a speed of 12,3560kmh and will reportedly be fit with RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles. Other Details about the glider’s specifications remain top secret.

Both the US and China are now hurrying to develop comparable hypersonic gliders equipped with nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles increasing the defense gap between the military superpowers and the rest of the world.

The report on the development of Russia’s hypersonic glider comes at a time when Moscow’s relations with the West approach a historic tipping point driven most recently by accusations that President Vladimir Putin is attempting to intervene in the US political election after Hillary Clinton’s campaign hurled a desperate allegation that the WikiLeaks file dump exposing her own bid, joined by the media and Democratic Party officials, to subvert the 2016 presidential election was all a plot of the Russians.

The splurge of Russophobia appears to have spilled over into defense relations with feverish assaults on Moscow’s strategy in Syria of stabilizing the Assad regime at least as long as necessary to root out IS and other jihadist organizations in addition to renewed struggle in Crimea after Ukrainian forces were thwarted in a terror plot.

Although the latest report by Britain’s Daily Star may be in line with this vein of exaggerating the threat of Russia, Moscow’s program of hypersonic military capabilities has been an open secret and similar reports about the incredible capabilities of the experimental Yu-74 have been detailed by defense analytics website Ostkraft.ru which determined that the aircraft’s outstanding maneuverability and high speeds would render NATO’s missile defense systems and the US THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) shield useless.