INF-Historik
2024-07-12
The US plans to deploy long-range ground-based missiles in Germany. The move comes five years after Washington’s unilateral decision to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia.
The US announced scrapped the INF Treaty in 2019, claiming Russia’s 9M729 Novator missile had a range above 500 km. Russia rejected the charge, taking the unprecedented step of declassifying the Novator’s characteristics to try to save the INF, but to no avail.
While accusing Russia, the US never addressed suspicions of its own potential violations of the INF:
In 2016, the US deployed long-range fire components in Romania and Poland as part of the Aegis Ashore anti-ballistic missile shield. Moscow said they used the same MK-41 launchers, which could field and fire offensive, nuclear-tipped Tomahawk cruise missiles. In 1990s-2010s the US developed Hera, ground-based ‘target missile’ using control and guidance systems from the Pershing II. This class of weapons was restricted by the INF due to the range of up to 1,200 km. Other US long-range fires classified as ‘target missiles’ violating the INF’s terms include the Medium Range Target (MRT) and LRALT and ELRALT missiles, which have a range between 1,000-2,500 km. The same goes for the ground-based version of the AGM-158 cruise missile, whose extended-range variant has a 1,000 km range. Russia’s military has argued that America’s long-range drones, including the MQ-1 Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper, were also INF violators, given their range of over 1,200 km and ability to carry precision munitions, including small nuclear payloads.Visa ditt stöd till det informationsarbete Carl genomför
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