Russian Military destroys Terrorist Bases in Syria

On March 5, 2024 Russian aerospace forces carried out strikes in Syria near the area of the settlement of Bsanqul in Idlib province and destroyed two bases of terrorists involved in the shelling of positions of the Syrian government forces.

One Syrian soldier was killed due to shelling by terrorists in the province of Latakia, but more than 20 terrorists have been eliminated.

Meanwhile, US-led coalition fighters breached de-confliction protocols and violated the Syrian airspace four times in Al-Tanf by a pair of F-16 jets and a pair of А-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft.

In an interview with Russian media, the Russian president assured that Russia’s nuclear triad is more modern than that of any other country, and reiterated that Moscow would never use such fearsome arms unless its statehood is threatened.

Russia’s nuclear-capable Avangard hyper-sonic glide vehicles have rendered massive US investments into the creation of a missile defense system useless, Vladimir Putin has announced.

The experience of the developing the Avangard demonstrates the course Russia should continue to stick to in the field of strategic armaments. First unveiled by Putin in a speech to Russian lawmakers in 2018 and introduced into service in late 2019.

The Avangard (lit. “Vanguard”) is a maneuverable, blazing fast, nuclear-capable hyper-sonic glide vehicle designed to penetrate all existing and future missile defense systems.

The glide vehicles have a reported independent range of more than 6,000 km, and an explosive power of between 0.8 and two megatons.

They’re also available in conventional mode, using the immense kinetic force generated by the high speed at which they hit their targets to destroy an array of strategic objectives.

Along with maneuverability and speed, the characteristics of their flight, and specifically the weapons’ ability to withstand temperatures of up to 2,000 degrees Celsius are another factor making defense against the Avangard essentially impossible.

The Avangard is practically covered with plasma [during flight, ed.] and the plasma absorbs electromagnetic rays, thus making the hyper sonic vehicle invisible to radar.

As a result of high kinetic energy, the Avangard can destroy targets without the use of nuclear weapons. This is a unique tool, and to date no other country in the world has created anything like it.

With their carrier rockets having a flight range between 15,200 and 18,000 km, the Avangard can strike any point on Earth.

Up to two dozen Avangards can be packed into a single Sarmat missile, with the rocket also capable of carrying other MIRV’s, as well as dummy warheads designed to fool and disperse enemy missile defenses.

The Avangard is one of half-a-dozen new strategic-class weapons in Russia’s arsenal.

With these armaments designed to ensure that even if an adversary were to manage to catch Russia off-guard in a nuclear or conventional first strike, the guaranteed response would nevertheless be severe enough to force enemy planners to think twice before launching such aggression.

Russia resumed work on its unique anti-missile defense projects in the early 2000’s, after the USA unilaterally walked out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and began to deploy a missile offense and defense shield in Europe.

America’s withdrawal from the ABM Treaty in 2002 forced Russia to start developing hyper-sonic weapons, Putin recalled in his conversation with Efremov.

We had to create these weapons in response to the deployment of the US strategic missile defense system, which would have been able to neutralize and render obsolete our entire nuclear potential.

For the first time in modern Russia’s history, the country possesses the most modern types of weapons, which are far superior in terms of their force, power, speed and, very importantly, in terms of accuracy compared to all which existed before them and exist today.

Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024.