The US military successfully tested a hypersonic missile prototype on May 4, the Lockheed Martin version of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) that can travel faster than March 5 (five times the speed of sound). It reached altitudes greater than 65,000 feet and flew for more than 300 nautical miles.

This was the second successful flight in the HAWC program of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The US successfully tested the first one in mid-March but kept it quiet for two weeks to avoid escalating tensions with Russia as President Joe Biden was about to travel to Europe, according to CNN.

Nazgul:
There's nothing special about Russia. The west is just afraid of their nukes.

Without those nukes, there's nothing special about the Russia military. Hitler and his tiny Germany invaded them in WW2 when they were still solvet union and about 10 times the size of Germany; and almost succeeded if not for the Russian winter and logistics problems.

NATO can take on Russia in an invasion warfare but if Russia decides to deploy their nukes on American and British cities, the tide of the battle would change, cos no one is ready to gamble millions of lives of her citizens over a war that could have been avoided.

This is what America and her allies are afraid of.

nuke is still something

And without nuke the usa is nothing as well

Land warfare would be based.on tanks and missiles
Russians have 20k tanks

Modern and serviceable numbering 13k+

Oga say what you know, Afghanistan is a failed State with the country been in control of three different faction US stepped in to curb terror groups as we all know Afghanistan is the hq of terror groups and no govt faction is doing anything to curb them inshort most of the terror groups had State affiliation and state sponsored and are all targeting US and US citizens, US didn't invade Afghanistan in full blown war like Russia did to Ukraine with unified government...so stop bending the narrative to suit ur ignorant ideology and at the same time deceiving the gullible ones

SlavaUkraini:


Stop dodging my question...

Poland has opened his borders for Weapons to flow into Ukraine.

Putin should fire a single bullet into Poland or a NATO member country and see whether Article 5 would not be activated for the defeat of his weak army that cannot defeat small Ukraine.

NATO invaded Afghanistan because America was attacked by a useless terrorist.

The Taliban refused to give up that useless terrorist and was sympathetic to his campaign.

The reason America and NATO Allies pulled out of Afghanistan was because they (The Taliban) have vowed never to harbor again any terrorist that poses a treat to the US or their allies.

---

NOTE : I don't support every campaign of NATO or the US.

I never supported the Invasion of Iraq or Libya because the argument and evidence the West presented were baseless.

War Crimes were committed in those nations and the West should be held accountable for them.

Norwichsailor:

Go and stop them nau. I am a Clown

Alright.

pegix:
nuke is still something

And without nuke the usa is nothing as well

Land warfare would be based.on tanks and missiles
Russians have 20k tanks

Modern and serviceable numbering 13k+

Without Nukes, USA is still world power, I will if you say without Nukes Russia is useless. They have used almost all their asernal in Ukraine, yet they keep sending more tanks. Now they have lost about 30% of their military might in Ukraine.

Masterito:
Which one have they lost?

Stop escaping the question list one war USA has won alone and I give you two Russia has won

alcuin:


What about North Korea? How far with stopping them from making nukes?

Some of you guysI just open mouth and talk nonsense.

Only US had the nuclear bomb in 1945. They should not have allowed the Russians to develop one.

Once the Russians had gotten it, US could not stop any other country.

That's the mistake they made.

Spirit04:
lol the fact that you think F35 is a better aircraft than F22 just exposed your ignorance. Lol you simply have zero idea what you are talking about.

My friend F35 has got capabilities that F22 don't. F35 has type A, B, and C versions due to different purposes it could serve in the war theater. F22 is bad ass but it is not at par with F35 because they weren't built for the same purpose. You are the ignorant one here my friend. I just schooled you a little.

ademola721gmai:

He pain am�

Tonnierichy:

Well said but I was only reacting to a fraction of your write up. You asked why Russia couldn't attack Poland if they were so powerful. Now you are here telling me why USA are not attempting to attack. Dem for attack na. Make we see who truly get the power.

Why would America attack Russia that never attacked them ?

Think about it. You don't attack someone that never attacked you or your brothers.

The Current American leader is not as Aggressive as Putin's Russia.

But the day a NATO member State is attacked, they would have no option but to respond to the Aggressor.

Article 5 would be activated for the Swift destruction of the weak Russian military...

Biden and Putin had series of video conference calls before the Invasion and Putin was notified that NATO have no appetite to engage Russia or Russian interests.

But that it is wrong to want to change the borders of a Sovereign Nation through War.

Putin had other ideas because he wanted to be seen as a strong leader that is still relevant to his nation.....

Hence the Invasion that has led to serious War Crimes.

His madness should end at Ukraine, the day he enters a NATO member country...

then na better market na him Putin buy so.

SenatePresdo:


If there is any country that shouldn't have had Nukes, then it should be the U.S.

Because of all the countries that have Nukes, only U.S.A has used it on another country.

Which I know that if other countries didn't struggle to get Nukes, the U.S wouldn't have stopped using it on them.

Therefore, I think these countries needs to have Nukes to deter USA from using their Nukes any further.

Your mind is being controlled by US media, I can understand why you supports them unconditionally even when it's glaring that they are brutally offensive.

US is yet to invade any of its neighbours.

Nevertheless, the US could have stopped other countries from having nukes especially Russia. They had the power to at the time.

Yeyeoldman:


The problem with the average Nigerian is the evident lack of the ability to think critically. In your World, you are convinced that Russia just decided out of the blues to attack Ukraine. In fact this is how most people see it.

Propaganda and fake news serves to brainwash and direct public opinion. The truth is always there for you. Do a little digging and you will find it or you can just to be mentally lazy and believe whatever mainstream media is feeding you.

The Pope who is the highest authority as per Christianity have told the West on multiple occasions that they provoked Russia into this war. That is why they hate the Pope right now but unfortunately they can't do nothing to him. Diplomats and expert on international relations have all condemned the US for practically starting this war.

Crimea was not the beginning. This war has been on for a very long time. It's a shame something as avoidable as this has been allowed to perpetuate for this long. Every right thinking person knows that Ukraine is a no-go area for NATO due to its proximity to Russia. In case you didn't know this, Russia and the rest of Europe have always been at loggerheads for as long as we can remember.

When your Neighbor decides to give your archenemy a safe haven, you have every right to declare war on that unfriendly Neighbor. It's called being proactive. Something you'd not know a thing about since you are from a country where the government always wait for the damage to be done before they React.

You sound like educated fellow but are economical with truth.
Pls be honest in answering the above questions....

1...was it America that provoke Russia to invade Finland?
2....was it America that provoke Russia to invade Chechnya, Georgia, etc?
3...was it America that asked Russia to abandoned Budapest accord which led foundation for Enemity between Russia and Ukraine?

In February many world leaders visited Russia ranging French President to German Chancellor etc, both told Putin to stop the plan invasion that Ukraine will never join NATO..

Putin even denied that he will not invade Ukraine of which it was only Britain and the US that were never convinced that Putin will not invade.

Many of you failed to understand the situation cos of your hate for the west especially the US.
Russia want to steal Ukraine land and people and that's exactly what he's doing.


But in the end it's same Russia that wlll lose.

Ukraine is not an inch closer to becoming a member of EU.

Finland answer Sweden will join NATO before September.

Who lose?

error4040:


BULLSH1T!

Who are you to decide that ?

American puppet.

Just shut up!

Sanctions upon sanctions yet the Russian economy is still standing strong and even raking in more money from the same people sanctioning them where is the sense in that? I thought by now the Russian economy should have collapsed under the weight of the sanctions but the Russian Rouble has risen to an all-time high. It is the sanctioners that are actually bearing the full brunt of the war with rising food prices and an increase in the price of petroleum products. Yet the same people are sending more arms and funds for the foolish Ukrainians to continue in a war they cannot win. Make peace with the Russians you will always have them as your neighbours. It's an easier route to follow than all these mindless bloodlettings that is taking the world nowhere.

Spirit04:
lol overengineered simply adding irrelevant things that serve no real combat purpose and ending up becoming bulky, costing too much to maintain and not having any real edge over its competitors which is the same issues their vehicles have

Those feautures you call unnecessary are what give these machines the edge they enjoy over their western counterparts. Every piece of overemgineered touch on US made arsenals are built for a purpose and not for some inpractical fancy.
Look, when soviet cum Russian fighter jest were still been flown by linkage controls and all analogue mechanism the US Airforce already had fighter jets that operate the fly-by-wire system.

Now in your myopic view, you would term the fly-by-wire system an overgineered feature by the US weapon manufactures, abi? You don't know jack about military war planes. The US weapon manufacturers have a penchant for pioneering cutting edge innovations and inventions. Take it or leave it.

Opolopoopolonio:


US is yet to invade any of its neighbours.

Nevertheless, the US could have stopped other countries from having nukes especially Russia. They had the power to at the time.

The mistake was made after the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent signing of Budapest accord that saw Ukraine handing it's nukes to Russia.

Oshiogwemoh:

How old was Scott Ritter when russian biult it first nuke?

I said people like Scott Ritter not Scott Ritter himself

Oga Lockhead Martin and co are state control a company that can't sell a military equipment, they produce and US government sales it even it is just 9mm bullet or do anything without govt sectioning it , a facility with US secret service agents on guard 24/7, with all their operations strictly classified is that a private facility? Oga US govt just fronting them as private for downplaying purposes��

Spirit04:
lmao. Which state owned military gadget? Northrop Gruman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon are government? They're all private companies which get contracts to make military hardwares to sell to the government

WriterNig:



U.S Army & Marine Intelligence Officer, Scott Ritter;


Scott Ritter is an external Contributor to Energy Intelligence. He is a former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer whose service over a 20-plus-year career included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control agreements, serving on the staff of US Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War and later as a Chief Weapons Inspector with the UN in Iraq from 1991-98.

When they were still Soviet Union, Germany almost took them apart, if not weather and Germany concentrating armies on too many fronts. Weapons the West are sending to Ukraine is what is keeping Russia busy for months now, the same Ukraine Putin claim would fall swiftly

Toktee:
The mistake was made after the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent signing of Budapest accord that saw Ukraine handing it's nukes to Russia.

Even if Ukraine did not hand its nukes over to Russia, they would still not be able to engage Russia in a nuclear warfare.

Toktee:
You elements kept saying Russia is not using her full military might, and that this is not a full blown war etc...
What else can be call full blown war?
Russia is using cluster bombs..
Russia is using cruise missile with strategic bombers, phosphorus mutations etc.

Russia have so far have used everything it has in the arsenal.

The only thing they have not used is nerve/saline gas, atomic and nuclear bombs.


Be there be thinking Russia is super power and can take on NATO.

Chechens, Syrians and Hezbollah both are fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

funny set of people, NATO have admitted it many times that they can't take on russia, someone from Nigeria knows NATO strength and abilities more than NATO themselves, whatever that makes you happy

SlavaUkraini:


Why would America attack Russia that never attacked them ?

Think about it. You don't attack someone that never attacked you or your brothers.

The Current American leader is not as Aggressive as Putin's Russia.

But the day a NATO member State is attacked, they would have no option but to respond to the Aggressor.

Article 5 would be activated for the Swift destruction of the weak Russian military...

Biden and Putin had series of video conference calls before the Invasion and Putin was notified that NATO have no appetite to engage Russia or Russian interests.

But that it is wrong to want to change the borders of a Sovereign Nation through War.

Putin had other ideas because he wanted to be seen as a strong leader that is still relevant to his nation.....

Hence the Invasion that has led to serious War Crimes.

His madness should end at Ukraine, the day he enters a NATO member country...

then na better market na him Putin buy so.

Am done trying to educate Putin's elements and robots online.

Don't even waste your time bro.

Great0ne1:

Really !! You are definitely living in a different reality. Soviet Union tested there first nuclear weapon on August 1949. At the height of cold War with the west. Infact, they did it before any other European country, including britain. Scott ritter was born in 1961. How on earth could he have played a role in Soviet union development of nuclear weapon ?

For your information, if the west had attacked Soviet union during the cold War, they will be met by a disgraceful defeat, just like many others before them. Infact, united states actually explored the possibility of engaging the Soviet union, during cold. They went as far letting nazi millitary war criminals, to work for them, because of there experience fighting the Soviet in the Eastern front. Unfortunately, the stakes were too high, and there was no way they could have defeated Soviet union. So they continued to jaw jaw, rather than engage there powerful adversary.The second World War made Soviet union/Russia a milkiatry power it is today. Out of ruins of war, a major super power emerged.

I said people like Scott Ritter not Scott Ritter himself allowed Russia to develop their first nuke. A great mistake!

Tobi890:
funny set of people, NATO have admitted it many times that they can't take on russia, someone from Nigeria knows NATO strength and abilities more than NATO themselves, whatever that makes you happy

Can you be kind enough to drop the link to the said admission?

UrPapa:

Lol Mr war analyst typing behind your android
You think the world politics evolve around ur mumu view

Shattap!

Opolopoopolonio:


Even if Ukraine did not hand its nukes over to Russia, they would still not be able to engage Russia in a nuclear warfare.

Yet they will be careful cos they are dealing with a nuclear armed state.

WhatchDoGG:
Oga say what you know, Afghanistan is a failed State with the country been in control of three different faction US stepped in to curb terror groups as we all know Afghanistan is the hq of terror groups and no govt faction is doing anything to curb them inshort most of the terror groups had State affiliation and state sponsored and are all targeting US and US citizens, US didn't invade Afghanistan in full blown war like Russia did to Ukraine with unified government.. . so stop bending the narrative to suit ur ignorant ideology and at the same time deceiving the gullible ones

Abeg go sit down for corner....

You claim not to be ignorant but yet you are saying America did not engage in a full blown war in Afghanistan.

What were they doing there for 20 years ?

Probably they were frying Dodo for you to eat.

It was called the War in Afghanistan or the Afghan War. Don't twist it to suit your own Idealogy.

If you say that the American operation in Afghanistan was a special operations to curb terrorism then...

You also believe Putin's Special Military Operation Nonsense .. that he claimed is aimed at denazifying Ukraine.

War is War.... There are no two ways about it.

Slava Ukraini ..... Glory to the Heroes.

Toktee:
Can you be kind enough to drop the link to the said admission?

https://www.nairaland.com/7202799/nato-calls-russia-most-significant

Toktee:
Yet they will be careful cos they are dealing with a nuclear armed state.

Yes. But it won't be any different from what we have now. Ukrainians would not want to do anything that will destroy their land and people in a catastrophic way.

It will be similar to how they lost/gave up the Chernobyl nuclear plant for safety reasons.

DaddyFreeze2020:


What you're saying is rubbish.
If Trump were President, its impossible for Russia to have attacked Ukraine.
In world politics and military engagements, mind games are always used against an enemy.
Putin used mind games against Biden knowing he's a weakling.
Could he have said that with Trump as President?
Do you even think any country can use Nuclear weapons against another?
Nuclear weapons exists as a means of deterrence not for warfare.
For your info, U.S.A has the largest cache of advanced weapons in the World.

thank God u said advanced weapon and not nuclear weapon, usa has no defence against ICBM,


The 9 most powerful nuclear weapon explosions
By Owen Jarus published March 11, 2022

They are all more powerful than the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII

Ivy Mike was the first "true" hydrogen bomb tested by the United States. This 10.4 megaton explosion obliterated Elugelab, the island it was detonated on in the Eniwetok Atoll.
Ivy Mike was the first "true" hydrogen bomb tested by the United States. (Image credit: CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Jump to:
Tsar Bomba
Test 219
Test 147
Test 173
Castle Bravo
Castle Yankee
Test 123
Castle Romeo
Ivy Mike
The United States and Russia now have thousands of nuclear weapons each, with China, France, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel also having nukes. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked fears that such nuclear weapons could end up being used.

Here, Live Science takes a look at the most powerful nuclear weapons ever detonated — specifically explosions that exceeded 10 megatons. In comparison, estimates for the Hiroshima bomb are around 15 kilotons. Documents from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Russian Federation's Ministry of Defense revealed plenty of high-energy blasts. Even so, there are a number of nuclear weapon detonations whose yields are uncertain, so only those detonations whose yields are known with confidence are included here. All of these behemoth blasts are many times more powerful than those that were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

TSAR BOMBA



On Oct. 30, 1961, the Soviet Union dropped the most powerful nuclear weapon ever exploded on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, north of the arctic circle. Yielding an explosion of 50 megatons the "Tsar Bomba," as it is sometimes called, was about 3,300 times more powerful than the 15 kilotons nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima. The hydrogen bomb, designated as the Soviet RDS-220, was also dubbed "Big Ivan" and "Vanya," though "Tsar Bomba" (translated to King of Bombs) is its most popular moniker.

Ironically, the bomb could have been much more powerful. It was designed to have an explosive yield of up to 100 megatons, but it was detonated at 50 megatons, wrote Alex Wellerstein, director of the Science and Technology Studies program at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in an article published in 2021 on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website. The fireball from the explosion was nearly 6 miles (9.7 km) in diameter, which is "large enough to include the entire urban core of Washington or San Francisco, or all of midtown and downtown Manhattan," wrote Wellerstein.

TEST 219

On Dec. 24, 1962, the Soviet Union dropped a rather unpleasant Christmas present over the test site on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago — which holds the second largest glacier complex in the Arctic, according to a paper published in 2021 in the journal Nature(opens in new tab). At 24.2 megatons, this nuclear bomb was less than half as powerful as the "Tsar Bomba" bomb but was still the second most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. It also about 1,600 times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Because it was the second most powerful nuclear weapon, it didn't get a catchy nickname like the "Tsar Bomba" did; it is simply referred to as "test 219." Test 219 would be one of the last nuclear bombs dropped from the air by the Soviet Union, as a test ban treaty in 1963 banned aboveground testing and future tests were conducted underground.

TEST 147
On Aug. 5, 1962, the Soviet Union dropped a 21.1 megaton over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago (which is part of the Russian Arctic). The third most powerful nuclear detonation in history, it is simply known as "test 147," again not acquiring a nickname like the "Tsar Bomba" did.

This bomb clocks in as being about 1,400 times as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima. Despite its immense power this nuclear detonation is not as well known as others on this list.

According to the site Nukemap(opens in new tab), a nuclear weapon like this that was airburst over Central Park, in New York City, would produce a fireball that would cover all of the park and produce an intense wave of thermal radiation that would cover all of the city and reach as far away as Stamford, New York. Nukemap was created by Alex Wellerstein.

TEST 173

On Sept. 25, 1962, the Soviet Union dropped a 19.1 megaton nuke over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The fourth most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated it is about 1,270 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Known simply as "test 173" this bomb never got a nickname.

An interesting note — a few weeks after this bomb was dropped the Cuban Missile Crisis began — a crisis that brought the Soviet Union and United States to the brink of nuclear war. During the crisis the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles to Cuba. President Kennedy considered attacking the sites and ultimately ordered a naval blockade to prevent more nuclear weapons from reaching Cuba. The Soviet Union eventually agreed to take down the missiles in exchange for the United States removing their nuclear missiles from Turkey.

CASTLE BRAVO


On March 1, 1954 the United States detonated a 15 megaton nuclear weapon on the Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, in a test codenamed "Castle Bravo." It was detonated on the surface rather than being dropped by air and is the fifth most powerful nuclear weapon detonation in history.

The yield was about two and half times greater than expected and resulted in nuclear fallout spreading for about 7,000 square miles (18,130 square kilometers) across the Pacific, leaving residents of the Marshall Islands, U.S. military personnel and the crew of a Japanese fishing trawler exposed to a high level of radiation, according to an article published in 2017 by the Atomic Heritage Foundation. Some residents had to be evacuated, and the people of the Marshall Islands suffered an elevated rate of cancer.

The Castle Bravo test, and the harm done to the residents, triggered global protests against the testing of nuclear bombs. In future decades, the U.S. government paid compensation to island residents; retired U.S. military personnel launched a case against the government in 1984, alleging that the American government had downplayed the radiation danger.

CASTLE YANKEE

On May 5, 1954, another nuclear weapon was detonated on a barge beside the Bikini Atoll. The "Castle Yankee" test resulted in a yield of 13.5 megatons. It is the sixth most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated in history, being about 900 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. In the years that followed, global pressure would mount for a ban on nuclear tests to come into place.

The Bikini Atoll is a coral reef that surrounds a lagoon. Prior to nuclear testing, people lived on the atoll. The population was removed before the tests and has never been able to return because the atoll is still contaminated with remains from the radioactive fallout.

TEST 123
On Oct. 23, 1961, the Soviet Union dropped a 12.5 megaton bomb on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, about 830 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. It is the seventh most powerful nuclear weapon detonated in history. Known as "test 123," it was a prelude to the "Tsar Bomba," which would be dropped in the same area just a week later.

On March 26, 1954, a nuclear weapon was detonated on a barge off the Bikini Atoll. It yielded an 11 megaton nuclear explosion that was about 730 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. Codenamed "Castle Romeo," the test was carried out just a few weeks after the Castle Bravo test that had spread radioactive fallout across the Marshall Islands.

According to Nukemap, a nuclear weapon of this intensity airburst over New York City's Central Park would produce a fireball that would cover the park and a wave of intense thermal radiation that would extend as far as Port Chester.

IVY MIKE
Detonation of Nuclear Device "Ivy Mike" During Operation Ivy.


On Nov. 1, 1952, "Ivy Mike" or "Mike," would become the first thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) to be fully detonated — yielding a 10.4 megaton explosion, about 690 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. It was detonated on the surface of the Enewetak atoll on the Marshall Islands. At the time it was detonated, the Korean War was raging and a nuclear arms race had developed between the United States and Soviet Union.

Whether to develop the hydrogen bomb was a subject of debate within the Truman administration, with some officials pushing against it and others pushing for it, an article on the Atomic Heritage Foundation website noted(opens in new tab), with president Truman ultimately deciding to build it.

Toktee:
Another US double agent.

Russia that cannot beat ukrain in 90 days.


Russia cannot win against US in one on war basis talkless of NATO.


The man smoke cocaine.



Where is Putin robots pls time to feast.

The more the war the more crude oil gets costly and guess who gains ?

BabaD94:
Joe Biden knows that every single minute ���

N yet he threatens Russia every day
You Putin fans are funny ppl