Failures with Sarmat missile can induce Putin to non -standard decisions - foreign experts

The Sarmatian defensive program is undergoing a clear fiasco, but the Kremlin can decide not to roll, but to refine the project, experts say. Vladimir Putin has invested considerable propaganda value in this program. After the explosion of the Russian rocket Sarmat, it would seem that the West countries will begin to rethink the Kremlin's nuclear capabilities.

But experts of the authoritative Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) instead make assumptions that can even be confused, notes Defense Express. As it is noted, the author of the publication "Problems of the Russian IBR" Sarmat ", a researcher on defense and military analysis Timothy Wright, lists the options that could explode during the attempt of the Russians to conduct a test start of" Sarmat ", and each of these options sounds quite rather interesting.

For example, there is an assumption that the Russians could decide at the last moment to cancel the Sarmat test start, after which the process of draining liquid fuel from the rocket could begin, and it was at some point that there was an explosion. The expert also does not exclude that the "cold start" of the rocket happened successfully, but at the first starting degree the engines did not work, so the rocket simply fell, causing large -scale destruction.

The expert came to the conclusion that a defense program with Sarmat is a clear fiasco, so the most rational solution would be simply stop the process, but the Kremlin, on the contrary, can make the opposite decision, trying to "bring to the path" this project, since the scales are prestigious personally Vladimir. Putin. Russia will be difficult to maintain a parity of the warhead with the United States, which is an important goal for Moscow.

However, it will be able to use other options, such as extracting warheads that were hidden to comply with the restriction of the Agreement on the Reduction and Restriction of Strategic offensive weapons SO-1. At the end of the IISS expert concludes that even the failures of this program will in no way influence Russia's general capabilities on "nuclear restraint", although they can make some imbalance in the structure of the Russian "nuclear triad".

Recall that Russia changes nuclear doctrine and will be able to use nuclear weapons against non -nuclear countries. This was stated on September 25 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The American Institute of War Study noted that Russia is unlikely to apply nuclear weapons, added that Vladimir Putin was trying to cause a new wave of panic in Western leaders. Ukrainian politicians also propose not to take seriously such threats.