Dagger hypersonic missile launch
The era of hypersonic weapons development is a nightmare for European security and a new round in the “threat spiral”. This was stated by the authors of the German newspaper Die Welt.
Journalist Gerhard Hegman recalled a training launch of intercontinental missiles in the Sea of Okhotsk from a Russian submarine. Then alarms went off at the US missile base in Germany. In the opinion of the author of the material, this suggests that the American side does not exclude a missile strike on Europe.
The publication believes that with the advent of hypersonic weapons, the old missile defense system and warning circuits become useless, and the response time is also reduced.
Experts at the Berlin think tank for foreign policy say that the new type of weapon could upset the balance between the nuclear powers and hinder the disarmament negotiations. “There is no control over him,” they said.
In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the US was building a missile defense system to upset the strategic balance and stability in the world. This is the so-called anti-missile umbrella, he explained. However, Russian hypersonic weapons allow maintaining strategic balance and stability in the world, the head of state assured.
In December 2019, the first regiment, armed with strategic missile systems with a hypersonic gliding cruise combat unit Avangard, took up combat duty.
