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Sputnik: Boeing X-37 Spacecraft Could Carry Up to 6 Nuclear Warheads, Russian Defence Tech Company Says
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US X-37 spacecraft could technically carry up to six warheads and, with the US planning to deploy eight of these by 2025, it looks like a serious challenge, the director-general of Russian defence technology company Almaz-Antey, Yan Novikov, said Saturday.
"The official story is that these platforms were developed for scientific purposes and, well, surveillance. But we understand that having these capacities and possibilities, the smaller spacecraft can carry up to three nuclear warheads, the large one up to six," Novikov said at the New Knowledge educational event.
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Update: US X-37B Aircraft Could Carry Nuclear Warheads, Says Russia (Interesting Engineering)
WNU Editor: This is why the X-37B is not a nuclear space bomber .... Don't Believe Russia: The X-37B Spaceplane Isn't a Secret Space Bomber (Popular Mechanics).
2 comments:
Russia doesn't believe the X-37B is a bomber, but telling it officially make it justified to make one.
If this is or can be a bomber, this would actually make sense. If the US is to survive let alone remain relevant it will need to rely heavily on a viable nuclear deterrent in the coming years.
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