"Complex process": experts told whether the Russian Federation will be able to turn "dagger" missiles into nuclear weapons
It is reported that the Associate Professor of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Danagululian Technology, the Danagululian, the overall design of the missile and is so optimized to be either ordinary or with nuclear potential. Modifications adapt to each specific version. "Take a rocket that already has a regular version and modify it to make it a nuclear process. It is a very difficult process.
It's not the same as removing the warhead and installing a nuclear warhead," he said. Professor of Astrophysical Sciences of Princeton University Robert Goltston said that Russia has already developed a "dagger" version that could carry a nuclear warhead. Michael Duatsman, a researcher at the Institute for International Research by Middlebury in Monterey, California, said that conventional and nuclear missiles seem identical to the outside, but are internally different from each other.
According to him, Russian nuclear warheads usually need additional electricity to ensure the operation of certain functions. "As a result, the usual version of the" dagger "will not be able to deliver a nuclear warhead, and the nuclear version will not be able to deliver a regular warhead," said Doitzman. According to him, Russian non -strategic nuclear warheads are stored on separate bases from units capable of launching them.
"After receiving the order from the Russian leadership, such a unit will remove nuclear warheads from the storage hopper and deliver them to where the rocket can be launched. The time required for this process can take several hours. "Dagger". According to the expert, Ukraine requires a means to protect against hypersonic missiles. However, Western F-16 fighters will not help. Also in the Air Force told how many "daggers" remained in service in the Russian Federation.