President Donald Trump may have promised a new era for relations between the U.S. and Russia, but the world’s two leading military powers have found themselves again deeply embroiled in a 21st-century cold war complete with a new, more advanced arms race.
The Soviet Union is no more, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has made revitalizing and revolutionizing his country’s massive military a priority of his leadership. Russia’s resurgence in international affairs has drawn extensive criticism from the West and, while a war between the U.S. and Russia remains highly unlikely,
Putin’s recent victories in Syria showed his forces were potentially capable of outmaneuvering and outperforming a much more powerYou know and see better than anyone else that our armed forces have changed radically over the past two years, because our people have proved equal to the task, which is the most important thing, as well as because they have seen how our military equipment works,
how command and logistics elements work, and how modern our Armed Forces have become,” Putin told personnel returning from Syria late last month.
“The entire world has seen this as well, but the most important thing is that our people have seen it.
This is very important, because people must feel protected; they must feel that their security is reliably guaranteed,” he added.
Like the U.S., Russia possesses a nuclear triad composed of missiles stationed on land, air and sea, and Putin has set out to modernize all three legs of it.
These updates include submarine-fired RSM-56 Bulava ballistic missiles and aerial variants of the 3M-54 Kalibr cruise missile to be launched by the recently released Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber, a new and highly improved version of the last bomber built by the Soviet Union.
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