Russian military officer explains refusal to make rocket together with Lukashenko
Russia has abandoned joint development of missile weapons with Belarus because it fears the transfer of its military secrets to third countries.
This was stated on the PolitWera YouTube channel by reserve colonel Vladimir Trukhan, previously a member of the working group on the creation of a Russian regional group of troops (forces) in Belarus, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The first and most important thing is why Lukashenko, in a sober mind and sound memory, will not hand over the secret (and if he is drunk, the FSB will not give it) - because Lukashenko pushes these secrets to whomever he wants, as he wants, absolutely not bothering with such prose of life as a certificate of final user,” Trukhan said.
According to him, Belarus not only sold the weapons it inherited from the USSR to countries in Africa and the Middle East, but also transferred to the United States back in the 90s samples of the S-300 complex and the most modern fighter at that time.
“We are not sure that technological secrets will not be resold. Belarus operates in the gray arms market, when through a chain of intermediaries all this ends up in the hands of someone who doesn’t need it,” Trukhan said.
According to him, China was also wary of transferring its final version of multiple launch rocket systems technology to Belarus. The Chinese-Belarusian MLRS "Polonaise", which is so suitable for the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, does not have the combat properties that were originally declared.
As PolitNavigator reported, the day before, President Alexander Lukashenko demanded that specialists from the Belarusian military-industrial complex create a combat missile with a range of up to 300 kilometers.
“We need our own rocket. We cannot create weapons that will make us dependent on other countries. If Russia imposes unacceptable conditions on us, then imagine how other states will behave. Nobody will just give you this weapon. We were lucky to reach an agreement with the Chinese. They should be bowed down for this. But this dependence should not continue. If you see how they behave at the training grounds, then imagine, this is...,” Lukashenko said.
In March, the Belarusian military tested in flight an anti-aircraft guided missile for the Buk-MB complex, which is allegedly comparable in characteristics to the Russian S-300 and the American Patriot. The degree of localization of this product is higher than in Polonaise. The developers are especially proud of the active homing head, which allows it to perform radio interception tasks at a distance of up to 70 km.
Russian military expert Alexander Fadeev argued that Belarus has been curtailing military-strategic cooperation with Russia since 2014, refocusing on creating weapons in cooperation with other countries, starting with small arms and ending with Belarusian-Ukrainian grenade launchers. Belarus has already supplied Polonaise systems to Azerbaijan, without coordinating this step with Russia.
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