Californians are in for a mighty military display: Russian ballistic missiles began splashing into the waters just 300 kilometres off the republic’s shores the other day.
Russia’s military told the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Centre ((ARTCC) to issue a Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) to tell the many air crews approaching or leaving the airports in the area to watch out.
A minor aside: NOTAM used to be an abbreviation to Notice to Air Men. No longer. Given the number of female captains piloting those huge aircraft these days, it’s logical.
The Oakland ARTCC obviously obeyed, as is their job.
Whether the U.S. powers-that-be in Washington, D.C., noticed any of this development, now, that’s another question altogether. They are busy dealing with the non-existing climate change, yet another World Health Organisation (WHO)-induced panic wave concerning a thus far unknown virus, and, of course, all kinds of pre-election politicking and lawfare aimed at former President Donald J. Trump.
Meanwhile, Russian navy are making sure their presence is obvious to the most coincidental vessel passing by. The idea is to make sure that not even the smallest piece of debris caused by the newest war toys’ impact into Pacific Ocean’s waters falls into unauthorised hands.
The crowd in the White House are preoccupied with people so irresponsible that they want to spend their summer vacations away from their homes. That would involve travel, and increased travel would interfere with their Net Zero CO2 reduction plans. Who cares that the world is on the brink of World War III, thanks to their own policies that have sparked the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
And the Russians actually do have something important to hide.
Faster than lightning
Military analysts have noticed that the newest Russian missiles are designed and built for speed. Their explosive effectiveness is taken for granted. It’s the speed that allows them to reach their targets before the other side can take any defensive measures. Russian Kinzhal missiles blasted the supposedly safe covers so fast that the West’s (including U.S.) high-ranking officers stationed in Ukraine perished before they knew what hit them.
And now, following the terrorist attack at a rock concert near Moscow that Russian authorities blame on Ukrainian security service the SBU, they retaliated using their newest weapon: a ballistic missile named 3M22 Zirkon. These missiles reach speeds of about 11.000 km per hour (Mach 9), are difficult if not impossible to detect, and they hit two SBU buildings before anybody could sound any kind of alarm.
The SBU buildings were blown up to smithereens, with no survivors reported.
The Russians used the Zirkons on that same day to also hit Poltava, Kremenchug and Odessa.
NATO analysts used to be convinced that these missiles could only be launched from battleships such as Peter the Great (formerly Yuri Andropov), missile-carrying frigates of the Admiral Gorshkov class, or from nuclear-powered Yasen-class submarines.
The latest barrage must have surprised them: they came in from Sevastopol.
The Zirkons fly surrounded by plasma clouds. That’s what makes them virtually invisible to defences.
But it’s their speed that makes them so dangerous. Launched from Sevastopol, the two Zirkons that hit the SBU buildings in Kiev only needed 196 seconds to land on targets 607 kilometres away.
The Zirkons are assembled into batteries eight missiles a piece. Military analysts described their nuclear warheads as 12.5 times as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima in Japan in1945.
The famous American anti-aircraft defence system a.k.a. Patriot’s radio location system can’t reach beyond a 100 kilometres range. Thus, they have only 32 seconds to establish the danger. But, and here’s another catch: the Patriots can achieve speeds up to 1.2 km/second, the Zirkon cruises at more than twice that speed, at 3.1 km/sec. Using all your fingers and toes for calculation, the Patriot crews would be doomed, not even having enough time to find sufficient cover.
Supersonic aircraft? A pile of garbage
Not even the vaunted U.S. F-35 fighter-bomber plane can rise up to this unusual challenge. If it were to be able to take off within about 205 seconds, its pilots would have to be sitting in the cockpit, their aircraft tanks filled to the brim, weapons armed, and starting devices running. And, even so, they would have a dreadful problem taking off, with the Russians taking taxiways and runways out first.
This is what we are facing now, and it is pretty obvious that the missiles now landing off California’s northern coast are at least as mighty as the Zirkons.
U.S. military, concerned as they are with all kinds of wokeism, cancel rules and gender politicking, where recruits can report their sergeants to human rights tribunals for yelling in their faces, are no longer the mightiest armed force in the world.
It’s about time for them to learn this lesson. Even their military-industrial complex’s greediness should have its limits. America’s war against Russia, fought for them by the Ukrainians to the last Ukrainian is testing Russia’s patience, and President Vladimir Putin has said so in his speech on the Red Square, as his country was celebrating the victory over Nazism.
Should the Americans (and their allies) not wake up, the rest of the world will share with them in paying the irredeemable price.
Questions, questions, questions ... 
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