The largest defense program in the history of modern Russia was the Borey-Bulava nuclear weapons program, which “turned out to be a weight on the neck of the Armed Forces in a very difficult period of their history,” military expert Maxim Klimov writes in the “Military-Industrial Courier”.
The author claims that there are very serious questions and doubts about the real effectiveness of the Bulava and Boreyevs, including due to the complete failure of the [Navy] in terms of their anti-submarine and anti-mine support. “Today, the Navy has 11 SSBNs [nuclear submarine with ballistic missiles], but only four (four!) Specialized anti-mine apparatus on four minesweepers-seekers, none of them in the North and the Pacific, where NSNF [naval strategic nuclear forces ] ”, The expert writes.
The Russian promising underwater unmanned aerial vehicle “Poseidon” (also known as “Status-6”), the author calls publicity, assuring that the defeat of this “torpedo” would have coped with the US anti-submarine defense of the 1980s.
“The question arises: do we really have money in the Ministry of Defense nowhere to spend? We probably already have a hundred or two [fighters] Su-57 in combat? Or, perhaps, relatively new AWACS [early warning and control] aircraft, of which we have not five, but fifty? ” – the expert asks with rhetorical questions.
In May, military observer Viktor Baranets said that Poseidon has a very powerful nuclear warhead, is capable of being in water at a depth of more than one kilometer and develops a speed of 90 to 100 knots. According to him, the drone is an intercontinental weapon capable of “easily circling the globe and pushing against the enemy shore to inflict the greatest damage on the enemy”, and “approaching the enemy shore unnoticed, the unmanned aerial vehicle burrows into the silt where no one can detect it, and waiting for the combat team. “
In March, Klimov claimed that the Russian nuclear submarine (nuclear submarine) “Alexander Nevsky” of project 955 (code “Borey”) is inferior in its quietness to similar American submarines, and talk about the opposite is a lie.
In February, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences for Information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov said that the modern Russian ballistic missile R-30 Bulava-30 “cannot be considered a particularly breakthrough” development, since in terms of firing range and circular probable deflection, the missile is comparable to the American UGM-133A Trident II D5, which was put into service in 1990, but is 2.5 times inferior to it in throw weight.
