(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Will the upgrades that are coming to our strategic nuclear arsenal be ready in time? Right now, hopelessly outdated Minuteman missiles that first went into service in the 1970s form the backbone of our strategic nuclear arsenal. The silos where they stand ready to be launched still use rotary phones and 8 inch floppy disks in many cases. Once they are launched, the brand new S-500 anti-missile systems that the Russians have deployed will be able to intercept them. Meanwhile, the Russians have introduced a brand new intercontinental ballistic missile known as the Sarmat. A single Sarmat carries enough firepower to destroy an area the size of Texas, and our anti-missile systems are not able to deal with this new threat. The balance of power has fundamentally shifted, and so we desperately need to update our capabilities.
Unfortunately, this process will not even begin until 2025.
So we better hope that we do not get into a shooting war with Russia during the next couple of years.
The U.S. has been developing a brand new ICBM known as “the Sentinel”, and it is desperately needed…
The control stations for America’s nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles have a sort of 1980s retro look, with computing panels in sea foam green, bad lighting and chunky control switches, including a critical one that says “launch.”
Those underground capsules are about to be demolished and the missile silos they control will be completely overhauled. A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It’s the largest cultural shift in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission in 60 years.
These upgrades cannot happen fast enough, because right now the infrastructure of our strategic nuclear arsenal is constantly breaking down and falling apart…
The silos lose power. Their 60-year old massive mechanical parts break down often. Air Force crews guard them using helicopters that can be traced back to the Vietnam War. Commanders hope the modernization of the Sentinel, and of the trucks, gear and living quarters, will help attract and retain young technology-minded service members who are now asked each day to find ways to keep a very old system running.
This is something that I have been warning about for years, but most people didn’t want to listen.
Now our military is in a race against time, because the clock is ticking.
Overall, 750 billion dollars will be spent to overhaul our strategic nuclear forces, and it is being projected the silo work for the Sentinel could begin “as soon as 2025”…
The Sentinel work is one leg of a larger, nuclear weapons enterprise-wide $750 billion overhaul that is replacing almost every component of U.S. nuclear defenses, including new stealth bombers, submarines and ICBMs in the country’s largest nuclear weapons program since the Manhattan Project.
For the Sentinel, silo work could be underway by lead contractor Northrop Grumman as soon as 2025.
I am glad that they are moving forward.
But if work will not even begin until 2025, when will it finally be completed?
Until the Sentinel is ready, the Russians will continue to possess a major strategic advantage over us, and they know it.
If the war in Ukraine spirals out of control, we could easily find ourselves facing a nightmare scenario.
The Russians have been steadily gaining ground in Ukraine in recent weeks, and over the past few days they have started to gobble up significant chunks of territory.
The Ukrainians are running out of warm bodies to throw into the fight, and that is a major problem.
They are also running out of ammunition and equipment, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just made a trip to D.C. to beg for more money…
Zelensky is in D.C. to ask Congress to pass $61 billion more for Ukraine, on top of the $113 billion they approved early this year. However, it looks increasingly likely that any more funding for Ukraine will have to wait until next year.
The Biden administration requested the funding as part of a $106 billion package, which includes only $13 billion for securing the border, but Republicans say it does not go far enough, and are calling for a number of reforms to reduce the number of asylum seekers and illegal border crossers, which recently hit 12,000 per day.
Johnson said at a Wall Street Journal event on Monday that Democrats and the White House must agree to some or all of the border-security measures outlined in H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.
Even with all of the money that we have given him already, his forces are still losing.
And even if we give him what he is asking for now, Russians forces will continue to advance.
Zelensky is holding a losing hand, and as the Russians advance he is going to become very desperate. And very desperate people do very desperate things.
Eventually, I expect that events in Ukraine will force the U.S. and Russia into a showdown.
When that day arrives, will the U.S. be ready?
Earlier today, I came across an article about a calendar that is being sold in Russia that shows “a Russian soldier outside the US Capitol building in Washington DC with a drone and helicopter overhead”…
A Russian veterans organisation is selling a 2024 calendar featuring a muscle-bound Vladimir Putin.
The calendar continues a series of propaganda images including one showing a Russian soldier outside the US Capitol building in Washington DC with a drone and helicopter overhead.
Many Russians believe that a war with the United States is inevitable.
And as I have repeatedly warned my readers, the Russians have been feverishly preparing for such a conflict for a long time. Thankfully, the U.S. is finally starting to get prepared as well.
But if work is not even going to begin until 2025, will the much needed upgrades to our strategic nuclear arsenal be completed in time?
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You know where the problem lies in this? (meaning a thought of having a positive outcome by this new initiative) Just two words from your text. COMMANDERS HOPE
Yes, that’s the whole and only problem. It means that commanders have nothing better left to do than hope. Sure, in themselves they’re probably very capable of getting this solved, but since they have to rely on and wait for government (whatever layer it might be), this is most likely becoming a very expensive disaster.
So, how to cure? Let the old collapse first, then start building, and don’t give away your responsibility.
I find the focus on only the land based missiles is very shortsighted. True, they are now inadequate, but they are also the least effective deterrent because of they are more likely to be taken out first. In the larger scheme of things, we are still so far ahead of not just Russia but other nuke armed enemies that it is not a fair fight. Do not take that statement to mean we are a clear winner if things go as planned, but neither are they as nuke war is total devastation if fought as it is expected. Local or “theater” war may not stay that way, things have a way of intensifying and escalating when rational thought is abandoned for the emotional win at any cost war mentality.
We have already lost the war without a single shot being fired. Biden did his best to destroy us economically. We are trillions in debt, that we cannot afford to repay. Inflation has destroyed our standard of living. 7 million illegal aliens in 3 years. We throw our veterans out in the streets, and put illegal aliens up in 4 star hotels.
China spend billions on our colleges and universities to fund the teaching of Marxism, socialism, communism, and anarchy. Our elections are compromised to where the latest polls show more than 20% of the mail in ballots in the 2020 election were fraudulent. The DC gulag is full of political prisoners. The leading candidate for the 2024 Presidential Election is being persecuted in a number of Kangaroo Courts by the current corrupt administration.
Our President and his family have been selling “Pay to Play” to our nation’s enemies! The Joint Chiefs of the military are more concerned with DEI and abortion than military readiness. Now, they want more money for obsolete war toys.
We lost!
No winner in an all-out nuke war, anyone that believes differently is delusional.