U.S. Ambassador to Poland George Mosbach implied that if Germany refuses, Poland may agree to the storage of U.S. nuclear arsenals in Europe. For this reason, Russian media said that in order to implement countermeasures, Moscow has the possibility of deploying advanced missiles and air defense weapons defense systems to Cuba (and Venezuela) in the shortest time.
In the future, once the United States deploys nuclear weapons in Poland, most of Russia's territory will be within its strike range; especially when the United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF Treaty), paving the way for the deployment of missiles such as BGM-109G on the Russian border.
Since 1968, the United States has deployed about 180 B-61 nuclear bombs in Europe, of which about 20 are deployed in Germany, and each is 13 times the power of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. Russian media commented on this: Washington's latest intention seems to be to repeat the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
After analysis, experts said that if US nuclear weapons appear in Poland, Moscow will deploy the Iskander-M (Iskander-M) tactical missile and S-400 long-range air defense missile system to Cuba and Venezuela.
"Iskander"-M missile weighs 3.8 tons, is 7.3 meters long and has a diameter of 0.92 meters. It is equipped with conventional explosives or cluster bombs or electromagnetic pulse warheads or nuclear warheads at 480-700 kg. It uses a variety of guidance methods, including inertial guidance, satellite navigation and terrain matching methods to adjust flight errors. The theoretical target deviation (CEP) of
"Iskander"-M missile is only 2 meters. This error is negligible for the ability to carry nuclear warheads. The maximum range of the 9M723 missile is 500 kilometers, which can undergo complex orbital changes during flight to avoid being discovered by radar and other reconnaissance systems.
"Iskander"-M missile is equipped with a solid-fuel rocket engine with a flight speed of Mach 5.9; if deployed to Cuba and Venezuela, it can launch fire on US territory within 30 to 40 seconds, which makes the US military's defense system unable to respond in a timely manner.
