Putin's Armageddon Weapon
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2022
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You know you're living in interesting times when Mark Felton starts talking about current events.
Its a slippery slope, he's a history channel.
First he starts talking about current events, and before you know it, he'll be doing documentaries on how aliens saved hitler from his bunker in 1945.
@@hello7533 lol what?? stretch bigger than Sarmat range
@@hello7533 Last second's """current""" events are already history
on related note NATO is Installing nukes in Poland as we speak on the low low.
Or the End of time ?
"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five." -Carl Sagan
I've never heard that one, thanks for sharing.
Underrated quote.
@@scott3462 The only ones that can save the humans from atomic nuclear self destruction are the aliens known as extraterrestrials: in the past people believed in the magical god, but nowadays god is either dead or obsolete and out of date, while an advanced civilization somewhere in this universe is a better hope.
Sounds like Carl Sagan. It would have been so much better to spend year money on space travel and tech
@@geedon1 if we had focused our efforts as allies instead of rivals (US/Russia) during the latter half of the 20th century I feel like we woulda been had Moon colonies, while Mars would have camps set up for further construction...
Russia also has Poseidon nuclear torpedoes, and Topol mobile ICBMs.
And Flying Aircraft Harriers with Stealth coating
@@gansior4744 Crushed the best army in NATO. LoL
Well posidon program isn't finished the bomb definitely is tho but it's the stealth plating or whatever Russia is still trying to to develop and man that thing is one hell of a weapon
@@philliplumpkin6369 Operational. Doesn't need expensive stealth. With nuclear power, it can evade all western defenses.
@@ViceCoin Then Russia really needs to be stopped.
Russia deploys nuclear weapons in 4 ways strategically actually and 3 ways tactically. Also you just mentioned balance, what’s balanced about the American anti-ballistic missile system? The truth of the matter is the American anti ballistic missile capabilities(GBI) number 44 total missile launchers in Alaska and California with a success rate of ~50% you can expect maybe 20 warheads/decoys to be shot down out of the 5,000 warheads and decoys that will be deployed from the RS-24, Topol-M, bulava, and sinva missiles currently in use by the Russian armed forces. They all have 3-4 decoy re-entry vehicles per missile. So I’m not sure why you even mentioned ABM it will be almost completely ineffective against a Russian attack. It was originally designed to go against low tech North Korean missiles, not to do anything regarding Russian nuclear weapons.
If you are trying to scare me, Dr. Felton, you're doing a bloody fine job!
Don't be scared of the Russians
The days of nuclear disarmament are over. Welcome to the next (hopefully) cold war. Next step will be a Russian madman against the reelected Orange ape.
Yeah, it's the first of Mark's videos that smacked of fearmongering to me. We all know the superpowers can end the world with an all-out nuclear exchange. That was true before these new ICBMs, and it's still true now. We've had this sword of Damocles hanging over our heads all our lives. I still think it's better than world wars every few decades.
@@davea6314 Joe Biden can't even save his drawers from getting skid stains on them, let alone run the US government.
I was papping it when I just read the title.
Former Air Defense Artillery Officer here. The Ground-based Midcourse Defense or GMD system is much further along than the testing phase, it was just never intended to defend against a peer threat like Russia. It is intended for “rogue” states capable of launching only a few ICBMs. The issue isn’t the technology, it is the cost. Each interceptor is very, very, very expensive. The program to which I believe Dr. Felton refers is the Next Generation Interceptor program, which seeks to improve upon the 50% probability of kill of the old system.
thank you!
I was in a ADA battalion in Germany in the mid 90s. I was just a truck mechanic tho.
Thank you for adding your knowledge here...appreciated...
@@jelly7310 Thank you for your service!
How much for each interceptor?
Mark delivers that glint of hope that we all need to wake up to on a Monday. Everything’s going to be just fine 🥹
Till next October Friday the 13th...
western leaders don"t make putin angry.
Many younger people didn't live during the Cold War under the constant concern of mutually assured annihilation. This is why so many do not view the war in Ukraine as a big deal to them. Also most don't study military history and how an accident, miscalculation, or one wrong incident could escalate rapidly into a bigger and broader conflict. WW1 for example.
Had the same attitude when I was in grade school. But then I actually lived during the 70s, 80s during the height of the cold war. So what's happening brings home all the lessons of history. And that what I've lived through is considered history to today's kids. To paraphrase my parents and grandparents, kids today do not have a clue. Wow.....full circle.
@@olternaut I think the danger is greater today than at any time during the Khrushchev era with the possible exception of the Cuban missile crisis.
Russia does not want a nuclear war. They just want a gang of bullying globalist nations, aka NATO, to back the heck off and show them some respect. Instead they keep trying to topple legit governments that are historically friendly to Russia and replace them with liberal EU wannabes. They caused this all in Ukraine doing that, and now via Ukraine they are trying to do this in Hungary, the only good European country left, which minds its own business and looks out for the interests of its own people.
The majority of people werent afraid all the time, atleast my parents and grandparents in West-Germany. Which is quite suprising to me since the RAF ( a east german financed and trained terror group) went on a rampage in west germany, killing countless politicians/succesful people and tried to sabotage and spy on the West. They got a little concerned tho when chernobyl happened and they werent allowed to eat any of their homegrown vegetables and the sour rain of the radioactive clouds came down. Even today in bavaria and former east german states you cant eat mushrooms or sometimes even hunted wildboars because of chernobyl.
@@davidpowell3347 US military doctrine then was nukes are just another weapon. Atomic Annie, Sgt. John, both produced battlefield weapons. Army testing north of Los Vegas. B 36s, B 52s all ready and in the air waiting to go. McAurthur flaunting civilian authority and wanting to nuke China.
"You fire yours
I fire mine
Everybody dies"
That's great way to start/end a story 😂
A very succinct way to describe the MAD doctrine.
The END.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 i like
nuclear war is two men waist deep in a tank of petrol.
one man has 5 matches the other has 6 matches.
MAD
@@geoffdeath2590 Great analogy! Of course, it only takes one dropped match to end it for both.
@@geoffdeath2590 they both trying to fire up opponents tank. However they are too close for 1 tank to burn without ignition of another.
Balanced and thoroughly informative.
How balanced is it? He said Russia had Russia has 5500 to 6000 warhead and compared it with British 250. How about rest of NATO?
Lived with them in West Germany at a hard site for 3 years. But they were low yield.
The code word Lariat Advance among others caused a lot of us a lot of anxiety.
But a nuke is a nuke.
When Reagan spoke of his "Star Wars" defense system many in the world spoke of a side of MAD that few thought about. If one side had a technology that created and imbalance it then justified a first strike by the opponent before the said technology could be fielded. it was so much of a concern at the time that Ronald Reagan added and addendum to Star Wars that the tech would be fully shared with the Soviets to keep the balance.
also to make life harder for those pesky space nazis
the fact that the fake program was called the stars wars project is so funny to me.
@@jmstudios5294 he never called it that it was the Media that hated him that pushed it. Either way the Soviets realized they could never compete and they crumbled at the cost. RR and George Washington on the Dollar doomed the USSR
If you intercept an incoming nuclear warhead there will no nuclear explosion because you need fission to trigger the chain reaction. It would be advantage for the one side who develops the technology.
@@Bk6346 On the other hand, scattering weapons-grade uranium over a huge area from stratospheric altitudes is still pretty bad.
I love that Mark approaches the current events with the same pragmatic factual demeanour he brings to historical debates. His channel isn't about hyping one side or the other, just the facts as plain and simple as they can be presented.
This is clearly a "wake-up call" for the US Empire, demonstrates much bias.
well, he is by far not so "pragmatic factual " when he talks about Japanese or Germans, I can assure You.
Yes, if only more of the world's mainstream journalism was like this!
I do not think so. You know why he is relatively pragmatic in ww2 history? There are plenty of sources from both sides to corroborate. You know why he can not be in this conflict? There is a massive propaganda campaign being won by the west. Think about how unclear or vague he is explaining the context for those missiles. It makes it look as: "...and then for no reason at all Putin, had a display of ego with a hypersonic missile." That is just not how you get to understand warfare.
I like how all of a sudden everything becomes factual when US is perceived to have some deficit, if it were the other way round, this would be peppered with troll comments
When Mark Felton finds current events more interesting than the past, you know we’re screwed 💀
Incredible work once again Mark. Now, how tragic is it that humans have arrived at this place? The irony that the “developed” world could be turned to ashes. I may relocate my young family to the most remote part of the African continent.
Dnt think putin will give you enough time for that
@@john-fr5yd😂😂😂lol
Ah, at first I thought you were going to discuss the hypothetical “Poseidon” nuclear torpedo, but this is still terrifying nonetheless!
I thought he was going to discuss Russia's "dead hand" system and the possibility of it being equipped with cobalt-60 warheads.
If Dr. Felton wanted to talk about the Cold War, I would be very interested
Hypothetical? I thought the status 6/kanyon/poseidon is pretty much confirmed by now?
all of their 6 weapons are terrifying, thanks to george bush who took USA out of the missile treaty and gave Russia a free hand :(
job done
As a teenager I followed the SALT talks never once believing that the Cold War Warriors would ever use them. I live 2 nautical miles from Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base. At least if nuclear war arrives, I will see the flash and hear the sizzle, no pain, no worries. Best of luck one and all. It has been a blast!
🤣 and there's always the comfort of knowing you'll die and not survive the nuclear war, possibly the worst fate 😬.
I'm in Manchester so I'll be wipef off the map
They've filled us up with so much stuff we'd probably all survive nowadays. Chances are you'd even survive the blast with enough sunscreen.
@@iitzfizz I live like 35miles away from the center of downtown Chicago and I’m tweaking thinking about how Im too far to be given a merciful death, my skins probably gonna get horribly burnt and I’ll slowly melt into a puddle of goo from extreme radiation poisoning. ..
Think I might just OD on fentanyl tonight. Was a good run folks
@@iitzfizz Besides Putin being envious of your team, what's there?
Thank you Mark for this sobering reminder that at any minute our beautiful world as we know it,could vanish in the blinking of an eye.The people who would be left in the hell after the blast would have to deal with starvation,radiation sickness,and the nuclear winter fallout for decades.Before any global conflict happens,where the citizens of each country are used as pawns,I say put the war mongering leaders into a ring,and let them fight it out to the death.The winner would then stabilize the earth back into love and respect for thy fellow man,the original way it was designed to be,in ☮️.
Don't worry.. aliens won't let it happen
Right on!!!!
I fear it will happen with the mental patient currently occupying the Oval Office right now. He is obssessed with war in Russia and he WILL escalate things.
Mark has remained one of few honest and trustworthy historians and analyzers .
😂😂😂😂😂 he remains on UA-cam, that says everything
I remember worrying about nuclear war as a kid. I wonder what the mental health effects are for all the people of Earth living with this threat their entire lives. For me, at this point in life, it's just tiresome and disappointing. Disappointing that humans can't seem to evolve past the war crap.
Man has never been able to trust his neighbors, never will😐
I understand your frustration (and it is mine too), but I wouldn't just say "Humans can't seem to evolve past the war crap" in regards to nuclear weapons. I dislike US empire, but they did not threaten to end the whole world if they don't get it their way. I disline China empire even more, but they did not threaten the whole world with nukes. All other countries with nukes didn't. It is only Russia that brings this back again and again and again (just watch Russian state TV - they threaten to nuke Europe every 3rd day - seriously!). Russia is extremely irresponsible with their nukes and end of Humanity. So I wouldn't lump all countries into one bag - it's just Russia. The others may be just as evil, but they are at least SANE.
I like that you think of us as evil and insane. That may prevent your leaders from rash decisions.
Globalization will solve this but it wont work without freedom/democracy... changes are happening and you're witnessing them now. It's just that it takes time and that, unfortunately, nuclear weapons exist in an era where major powers are Autocracies/Kleptocracies. As people world wide gain access to the internet and see how the West lives, they will be more inclined to overthrow regimes, so this fight between the West and the East will just intensify overtime.
@@daniser87 - I'm about to wet my pants.
Britain's nuclear policy is based on "The Letter of Last Intent" which is that if Britain is nuked, the nuclear submarines would be able to respond without needing direct orders. Ukraine crisis has changed my view of nuclear weapons have changed to the fact that Russia thinks it is acceptable to threaten the world with nukes. Britain should maintain a full deterrent
I still want to believe its Putin not Russians themselves.
Russia isnt threatening whole world with nukes Russia just said that any nato member that attacks Russia will face retalitory response. Ofcourse if Estonia attacked Russia they wouldnt use nukes but if USA attacked things would get ugly pretty fast.
you dolt
Couldn't agree more. 👏
It's all staged theatre to get us through Klaus Schwab's 4th industrial revolution. Putin is probably in on it, he's a member of the WEF and played a vital role during operation polygon.
It's about time people opened their eyes, they've had two years to do so, it's like instinct has been shut down as fear takes hold which results in rationale going out the window. Sheep everywhere. Baaaaaahhh!
This is so awesome! Everyone knows in a pinch you can never have too many nuclear bombs.
From what I could understand from this video there are three capabilities of this missile that do indeed threaten to upset the nuclear balance. Which is indeed very disturbing. The first capability is that it can fly lower than normal ICBMs which means it will be detected later by its intended target-country which means it will give that country less time to react (launching its own missiles) to the attack with Sarmat missiles. The second such capability, which is even more worrisome is that it can launch hypersonic glide vehicles in which case its trajectory would be even lower, right at the end of the Earth's atmosphere actually which means this missile can be used to take out the adversary's nuclear missile silos before they can even be launched. The third such capability is that it can attack over the South Pole too which means there are no chances of detecting it if it will attack in such a manner because the US doesn't even have radars at the South Pole. Of course all of these capabilities require extremely sophisticated technical features which are very difficult to make to work. But theoretically at least, this weapon will indeed pose a huge unbalance to the current nuclear balance.
Yeah , Im trying to connect the biblical predictions of the future and how this might connect with it. Majority say the USA will burn to ashes. If they did a first strike and were successful with this weapon, they could get us. However , as part of the triad , the subs would still be around..and most certainly would strike back. If so , would it be effective enough?
@@Dan.a.k.a.bradpitt Yes, I should've pointed out that this missile's threat (if it works in its intended parameters which is another aspect that is doubtful about it because it's a very complex system) would only pose a threat to the LAND BASED component of the US 's nuclear triad. The US would still have its bombers and more importantly its submarines. Regarding your question, if that were enough, man each of those subs carries 24 missiles with each of those missiles capable of carrying up to 8 warheads each with a yield of either a 100 Kt or 475 Kt. 24x8 = 192 nuclear warheads on just one sub pal. The US has 10 or 12 of these out there at any given time. I'll let you be the judge if that's enough or not... LOL.
@@JDA2185 2 concerns regarding if you only have the subs left. One is , Putin's New Poisidon - artificial intelligence drone operated nuclear powered nuke .. which are capable of evading detection interfere with the subs , and Two..the Northern arctic shelf is now fully circumferenced with a line of some sonar detection that is fully capable of tracking . So if they cannot hide in Northern arctic what areas does that leave them and how the Poisidon would then work more effectively?
@@Dan.a.k.a.bradpitt I'm not sure the Russians were ever able to develop such a very effective and vast submarine tracking and detection network. Also, the submarines can launch their missiles from any ocean not just the Arctic.
Now, regarding the "Poseidon" nuclear torpedo, from what I've read about it, it was not designed to attack submarines or even surface ships. It was not designed for naval warfare. That torpedo was designed to carry a multimegaton nuclear warhead and strike coastal areas especially in the US. It is a strategic weapon, not a weapon of naval warfare. But that torpedo too is still in the development and testing stage and nobody knows exactly how well it will function under battle conditions. And lastly, I never made the case for keeping just the submarines. The triad is a must because in nuclear war redundancy is a must. It also created an increase in the deterrence effect of these weapons against the enemy. If the enemy knows you have more options of obliterating him, the chances of him attacking you drop even more.
I was part of a nuclear artillery team in the 80s in Germany. I didn’t realize until now that those weapons are now just a part of Cold War history.
In capabilities, yes. In the minds of some strategists, maybe not. Personally, I think the advent of precision weapons greatly reduces the utility of nuclear weapons.
@@flagmichael not if you’re hell bent on ensuring MAD, that’s the point. In the theatre of general war, you are right, but if you’re trying to ensure your enemy who has launched a first strike on you does not survive, then Satan II is your missile.
@@flagmichael at the end of the day, do we need logistics? It would basically be the end of the planet, and a brutal end too
Ppl are ignorant, the U.S. Military budget last 10yrs $7.2trillion, ppl are to dumb to fathom that into, what has that budget got them.
It's got them,
Laser weaponry, Antigravity Craft the Uranium/Plutonium from their dismantled Nukes, would be, fueling their, fisson reactor, propulsion systems.
I WAS THERE IN 1981- 1983 ENGINEER BUILD BRIDGES FOR TANKS AND UNITS CROSS RHINE RIVER ,WE TRAINED ALL TIME DUE TO RUSSIA THEN .. COLD WAR ...
Ah some Mark Felton to chill out.
Then ......
"Putin's Armageddon weapon"
Great documentary, that is a fantastic feature: unpredictable routes!
Very informative, thanks!
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
He also helped start America's research into nukes, even tho they didn't let him work on it cuz they thought he was a commie or something, thanks Einstein
Nah! Einstein underestimated human ingenuity. There will also be lances, and bows and arrows.
@@georgetitsworth8919...what an amazingly ignorant statement...
He was very wrong about that.
Hoot hoot or they don't use nukes out of cowardice and after the end of the third world war decide to sign a mass denuculerisation pact that means nukes can only be used to protect humanity from interstellar threats. And if this does fall true world war four will more than likely be a world at war
Greetings from Papua New Guinea, Mark. I've long enjoyed your presentations on all aspects of WWII, but I must say your recent ones are just as enlightening. We certainly live in 'interesting times'. I never thought I'd see a full scale war between two major European nations in my lifetime! What we saw in the 90s and 00s were mere skirmishes compared to this. Do keep up the topical presentations.
Greetings from Mexico 🌮
Papua New Guinea, nice place to be in WWIII. Not everyone will die.
Where in PNG, i spent time in mt hagen. Is OPM still acitive on the border,?
Ukraine it's not a major European nation
@@wingkeungkong415 ???
That moment when it pops up out the silo then the main engines starts... i wanna see the blooper where the main engine fails and it drops neatly back in then explodes.
This was a scary one Mark! The US needs to play catch up!
30 NATO countries have nukes pointed at Russia putin knows it will be the end of the Russian empire if he strikes or even if he uses chemical or nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Mark, as you know, Stanley Baldwin said "the bomber will always get through"! Nothing has really changed, anyone launching a nuclear strike against anyone with nukes is just committing an exotic form of suicide.
Russian invading Ukraine is already the most exotic form of suicide. They are weak now. We can attack. Have you seen our cheap missiles pick off their best planes? Their missiles were constructed during the Soviet Union. Our nukes ar every modern and high tech. We can win the nuclear exchange and save millions of lives.
If Russia ever launched any nuclear weapons then NATO would undoubtedly use it's weapons too. The production of new nukes is scary but the idea of MAD is still the same. Many Russian's would be killed along with everyone else in a nuclear war and no one would gain anything.
he said that in 1932, a time before effective AA, Radar, Missiles, Jet engines, advanced communications. Nuclear bombers and silos are yesterday's tech, the only viable ICBM launch platforms are Ballistic Missile Subs. The UK being all Subs, has in effect a far more effective force than say double the numbers but Aircraft launched only. In theory those Sub's can launch 100%, while how many Aircraft will get through to a target.
the other thing to note is Bomber formations used to be a 1000 big, even if you knew they were coming it took a lot to shoot down a fraction of that, in WW2 it just was''nt viable considering the average flight time for missions, say France-UK.
Now replace Bombers with 1000 Drone's with Nukes, now your talking.
So while a bomber might get through you might have an effective 20% of your total available package getting through, seems very wasteful.
@@davidrenton I think the deeper meaning of his speech was that technology had changed the face of war and that in any future conflict, England could expect it's cities and industries attacked and it's civilians killed.
@@davidrenton 20% you’re in dreamworld it’ll be a lot more than that but even just 20% is over 1000 that’s more than e night and that’s just icbms
Liquid fueled ICBM's come with their own set of problems. The fuel is so corrosive, the missile can not be stored in a "fueled" state. The missile has to be fueled before launching. This can be a slow and very dangerous procedure.
exactly why i made the statement that its russian made if it was china i would worry but not russian.
A lot of ICBMS use solid fuel instead.
Dude this isn't the 1950s. Storable liquid fueled ICBMd have been around for decades.
That was the ild Atlas systems. The Minute Man is solid fuel.
The Titan II missile, which was in the US ICBM inventory until the 90s used storable liquid fuel.
What a beautiful amount of power
Indeed. Russia is a Monster 💪🏽
I would love to hear Dr Felton address some of the asservations in Max Hasting's book, "Armageddon".
Russia deploys in four ways, not three. In addition to subs, aircraft and silos, they have mobile ICBM launchers spread around its vast land mass that are very difficult to locate.
Which is something the US and China lack.
Would that be the rail based and truck based secret launchers on 24 hour duty to be at random spots ?
Dudes, you forgot something. In russia every citizen, in addition to tame bears and an endless supply of vodka, has missile silos in their backyards and a nuclear warhead workshop in the basement of every house.
@@user-ig8ew8qz8n and so? don't worry it will be a MAD for sure, you and me will die, even the "lucky" people with a bunker will die because of the nuclear winter. Let's pray that Putin won't be so stupid to start WW3
@@PrimericanIdol China has them too; they don't look that professional, but they have them and are functional.
Nukes are horrendously expensive to maintain, so it wouldn't surprise me if few of their weapons actually still work. Something that's expensive and unlikely to ever be used is a great place to embezzle money.
You mean each according to their needs is all BS and the russian gov is doing favors and making a few people super wealthy? Nonsense...
Gotta love russian kleptocracy- the most effective weapon
I'm not worried about the nonoperables. Even if one srrategic artillery colonel is honest that leaves a score or so of weapons ready to end the world as we know it.
If you leave a Lada sitting for 30 years the chances of it still working after without some intervention is low...
@Dr. Buster Cheeks M.D., Proctologist at Stanford I can guarantee you've never even walked by Stanford.
Invicta, Kings & Generals, and now Mark Felton are both making videos about modern topics. What interesting times.
I usually skip over this type of video but not if it's made by Mark Felton!😀⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Nothing better than being early to a Mark Felton doc. It’s like being let in as a VIP or remembering you’ve still got half a Twix left.
@D-FENS Great comment. 👍
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So that Cretin Putin as power over us all, being the lunatic said don't defend the Ukraine "Or else" duh.
Awesome comment :)
Top half or bottom half?
I just absolutely love your channel! Reminds me of the old History Channel I watched growing up! Thank you for the hard work!
Will you do one in Peacekeeper missile? My understanding currently is that it’s basically the same thing but the US version.
Where did you get your intro/outro music? I used the same sample to create an instrumental some years ago.
Thanks Professor Felton!! MAD was indeed a deterrent but quite horrific in nature of course. The Soviet, or rather now, Russian mobile launchers are the most difficult of offensive weapons to target unless there are tactical forces in relative vicinity to respond
M.A.D.'s effectiveness comes from sanity on both sides. Not sure we have enough that now in the East.
Erm, SLBM's?
Russian mobile launchers are hard to respond to because they launch them from third-party nations like Belarusia.
It still very much is a deterrent. All-out nuclear war ends the world, including Russia, the Kremlin and Putin. He would have to be mad to ignore MAD. Being able to kill the planet more times over than before doesn't change the final outcome.
Its ok, just Duck and Cover
When you think you're the biggest and baddest - simply remember that there's always someone bigger and badder
Very good video, but the R-36 variant that carried a 20MT class warhead was retired in the 80s.
Also the Minuteman III today only carries one 300-350kt warhead, not 3 475kt warheads.
RS-28 is not operational. It won't be until Autumn this year.
It can carry no more than 5 HGVs, not 24. It's maximun warhead yield is almost 25 times that of the Minuteman III, not 35.
Previous versions of the R-36 had ranges up to 16,000km.
Really huh your source is your spy
@@AMOUREDD Everything I said is publicly available. Do you think the maker of the video got their info from a spy? No.
@@Evan_Bell publicly available,who made it available,the so called enemy?as much as u don't work for "enemy" so let's say all info are assumption
@@AMOUREDD Yes, Russia has stated the details of Russian systems I recounted, except for two which are Western estimates, one of which I now happen to disagree with.
@@Evan_Bell good, adjusting truth and fiction is important when putting such comments so u don't get attacked
Love the series and especially the intro music!
I would like to know what goes through the minds of the engineers as they build these weapons.
Gulag
Got to protect my country
I've often wondered that too.
Rent due, baby needs shoes wife wants a necklace
A hammer would be a good idea.
Anyone else here ever wake up and wonder what year is it sometimes? As much as I love reading history there's some things I wish, well we d leave it in the past. Thanks again for the insight Dr Felton
No. But I wake up wondering if we've already been nuked and are in Heaven or Hell (well or Purgatory since I'm Catholic!).😆😅😂
Everything is a circle. Everything comes back around sooner or later.
We can't leave it in the past because the powerful countries won't leave the rest of the world alone, this is the reason for these conflicts, hegemony, control over others. US, NATO, Russia, they are all bad actors and guilty of same.
@@davidrouse7941 Human does not learn anything from history
Thank you very much for your reports, Dr. Mark Felton.
I wish you all the best from Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. Thank you also for presenting the truth about the war in Kosovo*, very concise and excellent research on it. Thanks a lot. Best regards from Belgrade, Peter.
this channel is the best ...
i will rewach all videos in future
Of all the features mentioned.. the most concerning to me is the use of the missile for conventional warhead strikes. That could be easily mistaken for a first strike if utilized. All the other features mentioned simply reinforce the MAD principal.
That's what I was thinking. "Oh, it's OK. Those ICBMs we launched at you are just armed with hypervelocity, conventional warhead MIRVs." It's not like you could tell the difference before the warheads are deployed, and it's only a matter of time before you have hypervelocity re-entry vehicles carrying nuclear warheads.
You've also got frog-boiling strategies, where you start out using them as theater artillery, launching non-nuclear strikes against neighboring states, gradually expanding the range you use just to degrade the willingness of the US (or whoever, really) to act against launches. Especially since they're most vulnerable during initial boost; predictable path, bright target, and the warheads haven't separated yet.
One of the reasons that Trump and Putin withdrawing the USA and Russia from the intermediate ballistic missile treaty in 2019 was such a bad event. Now both nations are free to build up on weapons that can easily be MISTAKEN for first strike nuclear missiles, further increasing the chances of nuclear war breaking out "on accident".
Not really an issue as the opponent can simply rely on his second strike capability.
There is no need anymore for "oh, we gotta react before the missile lands" like there was in the 60s, taking the chance of accidents way down.
A sub can be ordered to launch only after it got the "yes, we are all dead, the nukes have gone off" signal and still glass all of russia no problem.
In the 80's dual-purpose ballistic and cruise missiles were supposed to be really scary...Russians did it all the time _(SS-1, SS-12, SS-20 et al),_ but then when we introduced the PERSHING II missile and the BGM-109 TOMAHAWK cruise-missile in the '80s and the Russians start crying like little baby
@@aenorist2431 -- I got a feeling that our submarines and ocean surveillance/containment abilities are advancing at a much faster pace compared to Russia's over the last 30-years. Hopefull, soon they will lose the know-how to even fab basic parts & maintenance for a nuclear submarine. Eventually, I think the undersea arm of the Russian nuclear triad will fail and combined with crazy old-man Russian hermit dictators waving nukes around every time they wanna beat up on their neighbors will cause the old first-strike scenarios to be dusted off and seriously re-examined as being a safer bet for humanity rather than allowing a recurring cycle of Russian Nuclear-Brinksmanship every 30-years; each cycle only waiting for a new generation that doesn't remember the last time to fill the army.
As scary as these strategic weapons are, what really scares me now a days are the tactical weapons and their doctrine on using them. Even more so now that Russia invaded Ukraine.
Always the best most menacing opening music.
The tractor unit is a KZKT - 7428 (C) 1990.
Excellent Mark! Keep tying history to today's events we need more of these analyses.
Bluff has also been part of the Russian playbook. Khrushchev was a master of it, flying bombers several times around the block, the quantity of 1st generation ICBM's, to name but two. Russia had an economy the size of Italy, the existence of such a weapon, I do not doubt, the question is how many? and now with war in the Ukraine, are there the financial / technological resources to roll out the full replacement program?
With the Petro Rouble on its Way, why not?
Lets hope Russian corruption has hollowed out their strategic rocket forces, so nothing works, like it has with their army.
The only concerning thing is that Russia can be as dirt poor as Africa, but if they have a few dozen ICBMs pointed at our great cities like DC, New York, and LA, that's more than enough. Having 6000 nukes is just a dick waving contest. You fire thousands of decoys and need just a few dozen to get though and it's over.
@@ottersirotten4290 lol, no. Not happening.
Putin's conventional military is a hollow shell. Maybe the strategic rocket force is maintained properly- something Putin has to ask himself since it seems that all of his generals tell him happy lies.
Keep it real Mark ...love it !
Thanks Mark.
I remember a time when mark felton had only around 300k subs, now he's on his way to 2 million
Satan II does not fundamentally alter MAD, but, as you correctly point out, the West still has tremendous second-strike capability with boomers, even more so with the new Colombia class coming online in the coming decades (as well as new British and French boomers). The Poseidon, however, is more of concern, especially in terms of conventional warfare and its ability to take out Naval strike groups.
In some respects it is maintains the MAD doctrine. The US employment of ABMs makes Russia more vulnerable to a first strike.
The conventional capability is worrying. If US aircraft flying over the Ukraine took out SAMs and airfields in Russia how would the US respond when they get hit in the continental US by a conventional Satan 2.
I knew the boomers were good for something!
What about when all the "boomers" are dead? They aren't getting any younger you know. Still, the millenials will have to step in and take over....
@@johnclements6614 This is where I had a bit of a problem with how its stealthy first strike was portrayed in the video. The US has a tremendous ability to detect launches from space (assuming our satellites are still intact.)
@@johnclements6614 America will never launch a first strike. That is Putin's paranoia to justify his threats. Same as his excuse for invading Ukraine. Paranoia.
Dr Felton, I think this video and an analysis of the nuclear situation we are facing today with the war in Ukraine
thank you so much
Thank you very much for this informative video to sum up the nuclear threat. Both for my own general knowledge, and to help explain it to others.
Well done sir. God bless and guide you.
Hello from Ireland.
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I mean it all sounds good on paper, but much like their tanks they will probably only carry a 25% chance of actually working.
You're right. However, even one percent of the nuclear warheads that reach the target will be enough for humanity to be destroyed. It doesn't matter which side the rockets will fly from.
I like those odds.
UA-cam’s algorithm scares me with how it knows what’s going on even if the title is not exact
Mark Felton should do a video about the political intrigue of dune
I remember the Cuban missle crisis. Going to the basement of our sand stone built grade school just outside Philadelphia every day for 10 days as a second grader, practicing a futile CD drill!
I was also in 2nd grade and remember the crisis quite well. We lived only about two miles from the headquarters of Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. It was a center for top secret military communications and tracking radars. Some what later we learned the Bell Labs complex was one of the targets assigned it's very nuclear missile. We might have lasted, two seconds?
remeber, duck and cover! your little school desk will surely save you from the blast lol. although, I get that some action is still better than hopelessness.
It was not futile if you were within the "light damage" radius of a detonation.
@@scruffysstash Not futile, If you are outside the blast zone, the desk could protect you from light burns and debries
I was in 6th grade, in a school 23 miles from Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. For a couple of weeks we did daily air raid drills in which we huddled under our tiny plastic desks. I thought the bombs must not be as powerful as we were told. I didn't understand we were there to prevent panic and to make identification of our remains easier. An air burst well above Luke, to maximize the "sanitized" area, would have flattened the school very handily and ignited anything that would burn.
Mark, Thank you for your continued AMAZING content. I look forward to new stuff everyday. Love the tie-in too current geopolitical events. Please keep making these great videos. Thanks Mark
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Stand with Ukraine. Why aren't you saying you stand with Ukraine?
Lol.. I stand with the people caught in between.
You're the best Doc.
Very nice job on this vid.
It never ceases to amaze me that mankind seems hell-bent on it's own destruction...
Chimpanzees on both sides throw rocks, and try to kill the rival group. Ants make war, and destroy other colonies. We don't have the patent on destruction.
That’s because his spiritual father has a mission statement that says he comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. John 10:10b
Anyone remember that Cold war game from back in the day called " Nuclear Escalation " . It had all those nukes in it, Punk Rock overthrow card and the Zombie outbreak was always the coolest. It was like an 80's table top game..... I loved playing that one as a kid
Great presentation as usual Mark. However, it would be better to refer to the weapon as a Russian doomsday weapon rather than Putin's.
it's crazy how powerful warheads are
One thing that scares me more than these is the fact that we have two leaders past their retirement age at the red buttons, and none of them seems in very good shape🙄
Will you settle down a bit if you consider Biden a puppet and actually no one knows who really pulls the strings?
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Thank God.
@@charlescoulon7336 at least one of them seems to be...
I've read about the Satan 2 and what it is supposed to do, but your report sheds new light and perspective on its place in Russia's nuclear inventory and the longstanding balance of nuclear power between East and West. May cooler heads prevail; there will be no turning back if this nuclear genie gets out of the bottle. Thanks Always, Dr. Felton.
there is no genie - this is just a big over built over done, never to be fielded, russian "propaganda".
@@godslayer1415 Nuclear weapons is not a Russian propaganda, they do exist from the year 1945.
wuppas they have to be a troll, it’s too absurd
@@fromthefire4176 Trolls,fake news,disiformation,lies,all rolled up into one,means this male dominated society is a criminal one.
@@fromthefire4176 Nope, us humans actually invest in world ending weapons
Don't dismiss the Peacekeeper missles. 50 missiles with 10 warhead each.
Do you have a video of Israel’s Armageddon nuclear stuff or will you make a current one?
Mr Felton is a legend 🙌 keep the videos coming.
Awesome video as always Mark! Keep up the good work!
I don't think the average person in the West, or indeed in the East, has any real concept of these weapons and the danger that the world faces . .
You mentioned hypersonic gliders but you didn't have any details. I looked it up and it makes this Sarmat rocket even more advance than it is in the video. These hypersonic gliders are pretty much invulnerable. So essentially this Sarmat can approach either from the North or South Pole. Deploy hypersonic glider(Avangard) which can glide and maneuver at Mach 27 to it's target. Lol this is Dooms Day technology.
😱😱 no are you serious?? 😭😭 omg that's an evil weapon. Just one of it will erase France from the map 😭
I wanna go back to the days when we settled things on the ice. Some of the best hockey I've ever seen came from the Red Army Team. They spanked us a few times.
The MAD theory doesn't only refer to kinetic superiority of either nuclear arsenals. Regardless of who fires first, or who's megaton yeilds are larger. And neither quantity nor anti ballistic defense system that successfully intercept a significant number of warheads on both sides.
There still exists more than enough megatonage that will reach their targets and release enough energy to destroy every major city in in the northern hemisphere with only the first salvo. The second salvos will be even more catastrophic rendering everything north of Chile uninhabitable from the explosions and the nuclear winter lasting perhaps decades. No plant growth, no human survivors an no animals
So, it really doesn't matter who's are bigger, or who has more and who strikes first. once they push those buttons none of it matters anymore.
It is good bye to almost every human being on earth....have a nice fkn day.
What does kinetic superiority have to do with a thermonuclear initiation? You're using the wrong warmongering jargon.
I think you are wildly over-estimating the effects of nuclear weapons, and their numbers. There are most certainly not enough deployed warheads to "Destroy every major city in the northern hemisphere." Most will be expended on major military and infrastructure targets, not cities.
This is not 1990.
Furthermore, the southern hemisphere will barely even be affected.
These missles need to be banned ASAP!!
@@JohnJones-dg6lb - yes, I completely agree, but we must want ordinary people and elect such governments as to do so
@@Followme556 I very much doubt that despite all technology anyone can accurately predict the effects of Armageddon scenario.
@@Bee.Holder There are people whose job it is. Most of the predictions were based on a cold war era 4000 mega ton exchange. However any exchange now would be a fraction of the size, and the weapons would generally be much smaller and more accurate. So less are needed anyway.
One night, fishing, half the sky turned almost to daytime.. Looked up, something looked like a comet, ufo... But with a big blue tail of flames... On radio with others former military, elderly and young said never seen a missile like it.. I wad convinced it was a nuke headed for Phoenix , 30 miles south...
Constant with a beer in hand, big fish in the other, in my boat on beautiful relaxing lake I said "welp, this is a good way to die"
Turns out it was a submarine launched icbm off coast if low Angeles.
INSANE to think it was over 350miles away.. It looked right over phoenix..
Nuclear warfare would be more unreal than we think
A missile plume would be far larger than the plasma trial from a reentry vehicle. Probably why you thought it looked closer than it was.
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There is no man more qualified to talk about current events than one that has such an extensive background in history.
Modern scary subject from the top military historian on UA-cam.
This is all speculation. My personal thoughts on this are that if his staff have performed to their usual standard the money has gone else where and Putin is bragging about the match the cat pissed on.
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
with the poor maintenance Russia provides these devices i find it incredible that a single one of them works, and if they work then it's a probability it detonate them during assembling.
Love ya Mark! Thank you for making such quality content on relevant topics like this and the war in Ukraine. Best in the game
The Poseidon torpedo is one of the weapons they have that I’m scared of the most. I watched documentaries on it and I couldn’t believe it 😳
Deadhand is the one that sends a chill down my spine. Now that's a proper doomsday device.
Assuming the Russians can actually build and operate the thing, it's scary yeah
@@bigal3055 Cobalt-60 is no joke
@@anon-fq3ud they definitely have it and its operational as we speak.
I don’t mean to be doom and gloom but I don’t take Putin as a man that loses .
I feel like if he thinks he’s going to lose the Ukraine then instead of looking weak. He’ll go scorched earth .
@@christainmarks106 The Russians have done scorched earth for 800 years, that hasn't changed. But in terms of military hardware we know they overstate their capabilities a lot, Ukraine proved that; chances are the new missiles are way overrated by Western observers
Thanks for cheering me up!!😪
Thanks for the video. great information. But to say the R36m was a product of Ukraine is misleading in my view. The Missile was designed in by Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel at OKB-586 based in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine at the time part of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel was the Chief designer and was Russian, born in Zyryanov, Irkutsk, Russian Empire. This is the same problem people face when they claim Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons when the Soviet Union broke up. No, those were owned by the Soviet Union and while they were based on Ukrainian soil they were always under the ownership and control of Moscow and Russiann as the successor state of the Soviet Union
Mark Felton is on a roll. Some fantastic content, day after day.
You know times are bad when he has recent material to make content from. Kinda scary tbh
My late father spent three decades dwelling on and fretting about "the inevitable nuclear war, nuclear winter and MAD." He wasted his life. I won't - have some fun.
I'm looking forward to there use
Well that was terrifying