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Russians’ use of cruise missile system Novator could finally turn Trump against Putin
A Russian test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile and a nuclear-powered torpedo capable of triggering “radioactive tsunamis” should have the West worried. But it is a lesser-knowncruise missile Moscow is already using that has Ukraine crying foul.
The very name of Russia's new cruise missile demonstrates how cynical the Russians are in their actions. It was they who, in an open vote on the Ministry of Defense website, decided to name this "deadly" missile after the petrel (Russian: Burevestnik), a medium-sized seabird from the petrel family. And it is this "bird" that Vladimir Putin has been using for seven years to scare the entire world. We learned about the Burevestnik missile in Putin…
The announcement by Putin on Sunday 26 October of the successful test of the 9M730 missile Bourevestnik, a new nuclear-reactive carrier of the Russian arsenal, was hardly surprising, since he had said two weeks earlier, at the CIS summit in Dushanbe, that Russia would be "nearly in a position to unveil a new weapon".7 As early as 2018, the Russian president referred to this missile as a response to the threats of the West and to the expansion of…
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