The United States wants to expand its missile technology for the prevention of threats from North Korea, Iran, and China and Russia. The President Donald Trump announced on Thursday at the presentation of a strategy paper in the Pentagon.
adversaries and “rogue regimes” around the world to expand their missile arsenals continuously and focused on the development of long-range missiles that could reach targets in the United States, Trump said. The fact America had to respond.
in the strategy paper outlined investment systems stationed in space. The All-new Battle scene, underscore Trump.
Whether the government can implement the projects, in fact, depends on whether they can ensure the financing. Nevertheless, the mere announcement is likely to Stoke the fears of a new arms race.
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With the new investment to equip Trumps government according to their own words, in addition to ballistic missiles against cruise missiles, or hypersonic missiles. Explicitly Russia and China. The Russian government had tested in December, a new missile, according to the Kremlin’s 27 Times the speed of sound.
“The All new Skirmish venue”: U.S. President Donald Trump presents at the Pentagon in Arlington its missile plans. (17. January 2019) image: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
the new proposals from the Pentagon from the paper with the name “Missile Defense Review” (a Review of missile defense) Sensors in space to detect missile launches in other countries faster.
in Addition, the government proposes a study of a defence system in space, with the enemy missiles shot down. For the time being such weapons should not be developed but in fact, it is studies.
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The reigning U.S. Secretary of defense Patrick Shanahan feared the idea of the paper to the fact that it is Trump to a rapprochement with North Korea. Nevertheless, Pyongyangs missile continued to be a significant threat to the United States, as in the case of Iran, he said.
several Places in the paper Russia and China are also the reason that the United States would have to improve their defense system. It is not the first Time that Trumps government of the two countries in a paper. Observers fear a new arms race.
Test of the Aegis missile defense system the U.S. military to Intercept ballistic medium-range missiles on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. (10. December 2018) image: Mark Wright/Missile Defense Agency/AP/Keystone
This concern is exacerbated by the fact that the USA, Russia issued an Ultimatum to the 30-year-old INF Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear medium-range systems. Trumps government wants to from the 2. February no longer feel bound to the Treaty if Russia agrees to the destruction of new cruise missiles.
The last Time the U.S. government submitted a “Missile Defense Review”, was in 2010 Trumps democratic predecessor, Barack Obama. In the past few years, the US military had tested the current missile defense system multiple times. Out of ten Tests, five failed.
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Created: 17.01.2019, 21:10 Uhr
