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From Associated Press
Pentagon conducts 1st test of previously banned missile
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said.
The test off the coast of California on Sunday marked the resumption of an arms competition that some analysts worry could increase U.S.-Russian tensions. The Trump administration has said it remains interested in useful arms control but questions Moscow’s willingness to adhere to its treaty commitments.
The Pentagon said it tested a modified ground-launched version of a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile, which was launched from San Nicolas Island and accurately struck its target after flying more than 500 kilometers (310 miles). The missile was armed with a conventional, not nuclear, warhead.
Defense officials had said last March that this missile likely would have a range of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and that it might be ready for deployment within 18 months.
COMMENT:-
While the Russians have been violating the INF treaty for years by secretly working on banned missiles, American creativity and ingenuity has been able to produce these missiles in a mere three weeks <SARC>
since America had conducted absolutely no development work on them until after the Russians destroyed the INF treaty by unilaterally abrogating it</SARC>.
Right?
Pentagon conducts 1st test of previously banned missile
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said.
The test off the coast of California on Sunday marked the resumption of an arms competition that some analysts worry could increase U.S.-Russian tensions. The Trump administration has said it remains interested in useful arms control but questions Moscow’s willingness to adhere to its treaty commitments.
The Pentagon said it tested a modified ground-launched version of a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile, which was launched from San Nicolas Island and accurately struck its target after flying more than 500 kilometers (310 miles). The missile was armed with a conventional, not nuclear, warhead.
Defense officials had said last March that this missile likely would have a range of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and that it might be ready for deployment within 18 months.
COMMENT:-
While the Russians have been violating the INF treaty for years by secretly working on banned missiles, American creativity and ingenuity has been able to produce these missiles in a mere three weeks <SARC>
since America had conducted absolutely no development work on them until after the Russians destroyed the INF treaty by unilaterally abrogating it</SARC>.
Right?