纯属疯狂:英国为乌克兰测试远程导弹以轰炸莫斯科
Sheer Madness: UK Tests Long-Range Missile For Ukraine To Bomb Moscow

原始链接: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sheer-madness-uk-tests-long-range-missile-ukraine-bomb-moscow

乌克兰正通过对莫斯科及关键基础设施进行无人机袭击,强化将战争推向俄罗斯本土的战略。为了寻求重获战略优势,乌克兰得到了西方特别是英国的大力支持。英国国防部已成功测试了代号为“制动”(Project Brakestop)的经济型远程导弹,该导弹能够打击300英里外的目标。这些系统旨在作为基辅现有“风暴之影”导弹的补充。 作者认为,西方支持针对一个拥有核武器的超级大国进行打击,构成了危险的升级。通过协助其具备瞄准莫斯科的潜力,北约正面临俄罗斯对欧洲直接报复的风险。该评论将这些政策定性为“疯狂”,并警告称,公开支持远程打击能力正在将冲突推向一个危险的新临界点。

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Ukraine is making it clear they are seeking to "bring the war to Russia" - and this is what's behind the recent series of massive Ukrainian drone strikes on Moscow, which has wreaked havoc particularly on energy refineries, and air travel for the region. That Ukraine desperately wants to gain back what leverage they are able to is fully understandable, however, that NATO is backing such actions against a nuclear-armed superpower constitutes madness

Aside from covert targeting assistance, the UK is taking things in a more overt direction, having reportedly just tested missiles with a range of 300 miles which is intended to be sent to Ukraine's military

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The British missile platform has the capability of delivering 500-pound warhead to Moscow.

The Telegraph offers some further details regarding context to the major Ukraine support program in the following:

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) challenged firms to build long-range strike weapons that can fly at more than 370mph, cost about £400,000 each and can be built at a pace of 20 a month.

Some 27 bids from industry were made with Dragon’s Den-style pitches held last February, before six UK companies were awarded contracts worth around £5m each to design prototypes for testing in just seven months.

By last December, only three suppliers remained: MBDA UK, which makes the Storm Shadow stealth missile, MGI Engineering, a UK small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) with a background in Formula 1 technology, and Rotron Aerospace, another UK SME with a history of working with the MoD.

And the publication confirms that "New systems that can attack targets more than 300 miles away have been tested at a range in the Hebrides, with further trials taking place in the UK over the coming months."

For missiles of this range and power, this is a relatively cheap price tag, and can apparently be rapid-produced at that.

UK Armed Forces Minister Louise Sandher-Jones has said the new missiles are intended to "complement" the Storm Shadow cruise missiles London sends to Ukraine.

"The UK stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Ukraine, and we will continue to provide the support it needs to defend itself against Russian aggression," she stated. "Project Brakestop shows what happens when we combine that commitment with the talent and ingenuity of British industry."

Ukraine has in tandem all along been advancing its domestic-developed long-range drones:

The open and brazen admission that these future systems could soon be use to directly target the Russian capital would be an insane escalation by NATO. Once NATO and Western systems begin blowing up buildings in Moscow, suddenly direct Russian military retaliatory action against Europe gets much closer to becoming a reality. Again, this is sheer madness and lunacy by some of Europe's most hawkish leaders.

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