The United States may refuse to field its older Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) due to the development of Russia’s Avangard missile system, which has changed the landscape of strategic nuclear attack. The publication reports that Military Watch Magazine (MWM).
“Serious difficulties in developing a new missile have increased the likelihood that the United States will have to completely abandon the deployment of land-based intercontinental-range ballistic missiles and retire its Minuteman III arsenal without replacement,” writes the author of the material.
The publication notes that after the introduction of hypersonic missile systems into service, Russian nuclear forces gained a significant advantage, and Strategic Missile Forces regiments received a greater number of Yars missiles. In the United States, hypersonic technologies are still in development.
The USA had previously announced anxiety Obsolescence of its nuclear arsenal in the face of the Russian Federation and China developing new hypersonic missiles.
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