U.S. Northern Command: Russian Cruise Missile Threat Is Growing

Russia's KH-101 long-range cruise missile / National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Washington Free Beacon: Northcom: Russian Cruise Missile Threat to U.S. Grows

U.S. defenses ‘over-matched’ for missile threats.

Russia is developing a long-range cruise missile that poses a new threat to the United States, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command warned this week.

“Russia is progressing toward its goal of deploying long-range, conventionally-armed cruise missiles with ever increasing stand-off launch distances on its heavy bombers, submarines, and surface combatants, augmenting the Kremlin’s toolkit of flexible deterrent options short of the nuclear threshold,” Adm. William Gortney, Northcom chief who heads the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Thursday.

WNU Editor: I am not surprised that the commander of the U.S. Northern Command is issuing this warning .... long range cruise missiles will make U.S. missile defense ineffective .... but what the U.S. is genuinely fearful of is the Russian development of hypersonic missiles. On the other side .... it should be noted that the Russians are also afraid of U.S. missile development .... Russia is deathly afraid of America's newest missiles (Robert Beckhusen, The Week/War Is Boring).