Shurygin to Rear Admiral Parry: There will be nothing left of your Britain, you old fool

Former Rear Admiral Chris Perry said that Britain has submarines with Trident II ballistic missiles. And only one such submarine is allegedly capable of incinerating 40 cities of the Russian Federation. When asked why such statements were made, and whether London seriously thinks it can scare Russia, Pravda.Ru a military expert, a member of the Izborsk club Vladislav Shurygin answered.

— Why does the Rear Admiral of Great Britain make such statements at all?

— The goal is obvious. He doesn't make them himself. He was approached by the same journalists who found the old rear admiral's phone number and asked him to comment on how Russia could be frightened. He said that we have a Vanguard-type submarine with Trident II missiles. These American missiles are nothing new. And then the admiral, like any old retired admiral, began to tell menacingly that if London fired a simultaneous salvo, then 40 Russian cities would disappear from the face of the earth.

Only it didn't occur to my grandfather that 40 of our cities might suffer, but 40 thermonuclear missiles that would land on their glorious island would simply turn it into a radioactive desert. Grandpa doesn't usually think about that. So this is propaganda aimed at supporting the militancy of the British and, accordingly, reminding everyone how "great and mighty" they are.

— Will Russia somehow respond to these threatening statements to us?

— I think they will assign experts, people like me, or maybe Maria Zakharova. But officially, in this case, I would not answer, because commenting on the old fart seriously is not interesting. Again, nothing new. They don't have any new weapons. All boats have been in service for a long time. American missiles, which are 30 years old, are also far from modern weapons. In this case, he didn't say something so out of the ordinary. The fact that they have always been aimed at the Soviet Union, and now at Russia, too, is not news. So there's nothing much to comment on.