Russia could have more new cruise missiles than previously thought – the media – of new weapons

Available to Russian Armed Forces , there may be at least 64 9M729 cruise missiles (designated by NATO – SSC-8) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and flying more than 500 km

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DW reports to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS).

According to the publication. , the missiles are not only in the training battalion at the Kapustin Yar landfill in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation and in Kamyshl in the Sverdlovsk region, as well as in Mozdok (North Ossetia-Alania) ) and Shuya. The United States first informed NATO allies of the probable presence of missiles at Shuya in the second half of 2018.

It is alleged that each battalion has at least four launchers.

In launching the missile 9M729, NATO believes that the FR violated the treaty on missiles with medium and small range (MDL). This missile has a range of over 500 km. The Russian side in turn asserts that the 9M729 is so inundated with gasoline that it will not allow to cross a 500-kilometer border.

As reported by UNIAN, on December 4, 2018, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States had asked Russia for a 60-day ultimatum DRSMD performance recovery . According to him, among the various violations that Russia has been committing for many years – the development and testing of the new "Novator 9M729" RF missile system dating back to the mid-2000s, which makes it possible to launch cruise missiles at excessive distances prohibited by the treaty.

The United States came to the conclusion that Russia had substantially violated this treaty and decided to suspend its DRSMD commitments as a means of protection in response to the actions of the Russian Federation. to allow nuclear sweat Russia has surpassed the potential of the civilized world and announced that on February 2, the United States had begun to withdraw from the DRSMD for six months.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia's reaction to the withdrawal of the US from the DRSMD would be repeated and that Moscow would also cease to participate in the treaty.

UNIAN reference. The Treaty on the Suppression of Intermediate-Range Missiles between the USSR and the United States was signed on December 8, 1987. The purpose of the document is to promote the defense of the United States and its allies in Europe and the Far East. It prohibits the United States and Russia from stockpiling, manufacturing and using ground-based cruise missiles within 300 to 3,400 miles