Vladimir Putin would “laugh so loud the Kremlin would shake” if the UK’s upcoming nuclear missile launch flopped prefer it did in 2016, an professional has stated.
The Royal Navy is because of check fireplace a nuclear weapon from HMS Vanguard inside days, based on The Sun, who say the ship has undergone a revamp and can re-enter service as a part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent fleet.
The vessel was pictured crusing from Port Canavarel in Florida on Tuesday (January 30) forward of reportedly launching an unarmed Trident 2 missile from 90km off the US east coast.
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It will mark the primary time the UK has carried out such a launch since HMS Vengeance had a Trident missile misfire in 2016.
Professor Anthony Glees of Buckingham University, talking solely to the Daily Star, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin “won’t be fussed” if the launch is successful, however will like it if the alternative is true.
“If the launch goes well, I think Putin will not be that fussed. If the launch goes not go well, Putin will be over the moon,” Professor Glees stated.
“For me, the danger here is that the missile launch will fail again as it did in 2016. Putin will laugh so loud the Kremlin will shake. We must not let this happen. It would be catastrophic if it did.”
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The launch comes as each Russia and North Korea flex their nuclear muscular tissues. But Professor Glees stated the UK is not beating a conflict drum, merely ensuring every part is so as as a deterrent.
“So I do not think the timing of the test launching, to take place (as we infer from US warnings) from 2100 the day before yesterday to 0400 on 4 February, is aimed at giving Putin the willies right now,” he defined.
Glees added: “Either way, if Britain were to go to war against Russia, it would certainly start, and hopefully end, with a conventional non-nuclear war, not with a war in which nukes were fired because, true to the principle of Mutual Assured Destruction, MAD, a nuclear war with Russia would turn Russia, the UK and the western hemisphere into a nuclear wasteland, with nuclear winds destroying all life here before moving south and east.”
”Nukes deter different nukes, they do not deter standard warfare, as we see in Ukraine.”
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