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Atomicfrog said:

They clearly need to bring their production up and steady before foreign jets start to crumble apparts. Would still prefer to have airliners build in Russia than India tho.

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The SJ-100 demand in Russia isn't that extreme. And the factory at Komsomolsk-on-Amur can fullfill the demand easily once production is set up. If there could be an issue is with the component suppliers.

The big production problem is with the medium airliners category which needs the most planes i.e. the MC-21 and Tu-214. Next problem is with the smaller aircraft like the Il-114 or LMS-901. The industry operates the An-24 and An-2 and those aircraft are falling apart. And last you have the widebodies. There is the Il-96-400M but it is an obsolete design.

UAC is saying the flight testing of the SJ-100 and Il-114 will be finished early 2026. With testing for MC-21 finished late 2026. But it wouldn't be the first time the schedule slipped.

The SJ-100 and MC-21 are already in serial production with a couple dozen airframes in differing states of production. The joys of concurrency.

A Russian repair battalion from the 20th Army is working on an active tank defense system against FPV drones. This homemade tank defense system is based on the 81mm launchers of the 902 "Tucha" anti-tank system, which we previously demonstrated on T-90 tanks. The soldiers removed the smoke mixture from the 81mm 3D17 ammunition and replaced it with buckshot charges. Development of the system has only just begun and is not yet funded. Currently, it offers only limited protection for the tank. Currently, the system cannot detect drones and can only be activated manually.

Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers carried out a scheduled flight over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The Tu-22M3 is armed with the Kh-32 cruise missile, which can strike targets at ranges of up to 1,000 km. The flight lasted five hours, and the Tu-22M3 was escorted by Su-27SM and Su-30SM fighters from the Russian Baltic Fleet's naval aviation. During some stages of the Tu-22M3's flight, foreign Typhoon FGR.4 and SAAB JAS-39C Gripen fighters were spotted.

October 29, 2025
Putin announced the testing of a nuclear-powered underwater vehicle.
Moscow, October 29. INTERFAX.RU - Russia on Tuesday tested the Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater vehicle, whose power significantly exceeds that of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced.

"Yesterday, we conducted another test of another promising system—the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle. It also has a nuclear power plant. For the first time, we succeeded not only in launching it from a submarine using its booster motor, but also in igniting the nuclear power plant, which powered the vehicle for a certain period of time," Putin said on Wednesday during a visit to the P.V. Mandryka Central Military Clinical Hospital.

He called the tests a huge success and noted that Poseidon has no analogues in the world in terms of speed and depth of movement.

"Poseidon significantly outperforms Sarmat in terms of power. Furthermore, this unmanned underwater vehicle's speed and depth of travel are unmatched in the world, and are unlikely to be developed anytime soon. There are no interception methods," the president noted.

October 29, 2025
The Russian President named the Burevestnik's advantages.
Moscow. October 29. INTERFAX.RU - The Burevestnik missile's nuclear reactor starts up within minutes, with power comparable to that of a nuclear submarine reactor, but a thousand times smaller, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated.

"The advantage is that this is a small nuclear propulsion system; while it has comparable power to, say, a nuclear submarine's nuclear reactor, it's 1,000 times smaller. But that's not the most important thing: the most important thing is that while a conventional nuclear reactor takes hours, days, or weeks to start up, this nuclear reactor starts up in minutes and seconds," Putin said during a visit to the P.V. Mandryka Central Military Clinical Hospital.

According to Putin, this development could be applied in the national economy in the future, in particular, in solving problems of "energy supply in the Arctic and in the Lunar program."

"Even now, the radiation-protected electronics used in the Burevestnik rocket are being used in space programs. So this is a breakthrough not only in enhancing the country's defense capability but also in science as a whole," Putin said.

Here is my take on this new nuclear-powered cruise missile. First, it doesn't give any advantages to Russia; it's just an attempt to secure the second strike capabilities. In reality, Russia is sort of vulnerabile to NATO's first strike because the American bombers can infiltrate deep into Siberia without getting noticed. Second, russians have been working on this system since 00s not due to the position of strength, but position of weakness. After Bush withdrew from anti-missile defense treaty, russians started questioning their nuclear counter strike capabilities. Third, it's a good psychological tool to dissuade and scare the western societies of arming Ukraine. For example, Tucker Carlson and alikes will discuss this weapon a lot and portray Russia as omni-powerful state. I hope this Burevestnik won't change the western plans to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia through the Ukraine war.

In theory Yars and Bulava are enough for Russia to ensure their second strike capability.
But in case the US ABM proves to be more than hot air the Burevestnik and Poseidon will guarantee the second strike.

I suspect Burevestnik and Poseidon both use similar new compact nuclear reactor technology. This technology is revolutionary and is bound to have many possible future applications.

Unlike in the Cold War, Russia is outnumbered vs the US and NATO in terms of population. Conventional weapons will never cover that gap since you need people to man them.

The West is greedy for Russia's resources and wants to plunder its riches without paying a fair price for them. They stole Russia's foreign reserves, their rainy day fund amassed with commodities sales, basically defaulting on their debt, and provide cover for crooks like Khordokovsky. Who planned to get fabulously rich by selling Yukos, a Soviet oil company he bought for pennies, to Chevron.

gelgoog said:

In theory Yars and Bulava are enough for Russia to ensure their second strike capability.
But in case the US ABM proves to be more than hot air the Burevestnik and Poseidon will guarantee the second strike.

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Mutual destructions is the way to guarantee no direct conflicts. it's also a gloom cloud over vassal states.

It is not widely known, but because of the New START Treaty Russia does not have enough strategic nukes to vaporize the whole of NATO.

Just think about it, how come the US and Russia have the same nuke limit yet the possible number of targets in NATO is so much greater. Russia could erase most of the NATO population, but it takes more than a thousand nukes to flatten the US alone. The US has like 500 medium and large cities. You have to account for duds and failures. Treaty limitations are 1550 deployed warheads. Russia has 100 medium and large cities.

I think that is why the US establishment acts like this. They think they could survive a nuclear conflict.

So I expect Russia to counter this by increasing the number of deployed nukes once the US lets New START expire. This would be as simple as putting more warheads into the Yars and Bulava MIRV bus instead of decoys.

For all we know both Russia and the US could be doing this already. There have been no nuclear inspections since COVID.

magmunta said:

Here is my take on this new nuclear-powered cruise missile. First, it doesn't give any advantages to Russia; it's just an attempt to secure the second strike capabilities. In reality, Russia is sort of vulnerabile to NATO's first strike because the American bombers can infiltrate deep into Siberia without getting noticed. Second, russians have been working on this system since 00s not due to the position of strength, but position of weakness. After Bush withdrew from anti-missile defense treaty, russians started questioning their nuclear counter strike capabilities. Third, it's a good psychological tool to dissuade and scare the western societies of arming Ukraine. For example, Tucker Carlson and alikes will discuss this weapon a lot and portray Russia as omni-powerful state.

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It's just another tool in Russia's arsenal. It doesn't have to be a game-changer because the game already sees Russia seizing more and more of Ukraine while Europe is anemic.

magmunta said:

I hope this Burevestnik won't change the western plans to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia through the Ukraine war.

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I also hope so; Russian defeat in Ukraine is a carrot that China wants the NATO donkey to keep chasing until it collapses before Russia and China reveal it to be nothing but a baseball bat painted orange and green while beating the collapsed donkey to death with it.