Russia can destroy the United States with the methods it already has, writes Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, in the Military-Industrial Courier.
“This could be the creation of a grouping of forces capable of destroying the United States by initiating destructive geophysical processes on its territory by delivering ammunition with a caliber of several tens of megatons of TNT equivalent to critical areas on the American continent,” the author assures.
Poseidon nuclear powered torpedo and Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile are called potential carriers of such ammunition. “You won't need a lot of such super-powerful ammunition, you need about several dozen,” Sivkov writes.
In his opinion, the testing and deployment of such weapons could become an asymmetric response by Russia to the US withdrawal from the Strategic Arms Treaty (START-3).
In July, Sivkov said that the United States had forces capable of delivering a paralyzing blow to Russia. According to the expert, for this, the Americans “can rely mainly on sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs) and airborne missiles (ALCMs), strategic, tactical and carrier-based aviation.”
In November 2019, Sivkov said that a strike on the shipyard in Newport News (Virginia), which is the only one in the United States capable of building and repairing nuclear aircraft carriers, could cause irreparable damage to the entire American aircraft carrier fleet.
