Posted on 11/05/2008 1:51:50 PM PST by bruinbirdman
KALININGRAD, November 5 (RIA Novosti) - The deployment of precision-guided tactical missiles in Russia's westernmost region would render ineffective a U.S. missile shield in Central Europe, Russia's NATO envoy said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said earlier on Wednesday that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missile systems in its Kaliningrad exclave near Poland "to neutralize, if necessary, the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe."
"NATO must have known beforehand that their reckless actions would lead to no good," Dmitry Rogozin said in a telephone interview with RIA Novosti.
"No sensible person believes in fairy tales about the Iranian missile threat, and that thousands of kilometers from Tehran on the coast of the Baltic Sea, it is necessary to station a missile interceptor system. No one believes that Osama bin Laden will be running around with a missile under his arm, threatening the peaceful West," he said.
He also said the missile shield was "a provocation aimed at undermining European security."
"As far as we are concerned, the problem - not least for the Kaliningrad region - involves a direct military threat," he said, adding that "the Europeans" continued "to whine under U.S. pressure."
He said that Russia's response to the missile shield was "cheap and effective"
"Any threat in the form of a missile shield in Poland or the Czech Republic would be nullified," he said.
A Russian military analyst has said the deployment of Iskander systems would be the best possible response to U.S. missile plans for Europe.
Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the Moscow-based Military Forecast Center, said the deployment of Iskander systems with a range of 500 km (310 miles) would allow Russia to target the entire territory of Poland and also parts of Germany and the Czech Republic.
The Iskander-M tactical system is armed with precision-guided missiles (SS-26 Stone) reportedly capable of carrying multiple conventional or nuclear warheads.
Moscow has repeatedly objected to Washington's plans to place 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and an accompanying radar in the Czech Republic, saying they threaten Russia's national security.
The United States claims the new bases are needed to counter missile attacks by "rogue states" such as Iran.
The U.S. signed deals on the missile shield with Warsaw and Prague during the summer. Polish and Czech lawmakers have yet to ratify the agreements.
Russian officials earlier said Moscow could deploy its Iskander tactical missiles and strategic bombers in Belarus, and warned that Russia could target its missiles at Poland.
“Precision”?
Your birds are crap Ivan.
If missiles were fired from Iran, what path would they follow? If they were fired at Europe or England, Poland makes sense. But what path would they follow if they were fired at the US? Great Circle Route?
No worries for Russia. Obama will pull out of any missile agreements and there will be no shield.
Hmmm...threatening defenses? Makes ya wonder what they have planned.
The Carter years all over again. All we need are lines at the gas stations, a new hostage crisis, a new Russian invasion of a foreign country and the return of Billy Beer and it will be just like the late 70s.
fortunately we are all now under the merciful protection of his highness lord obama. he’ll be sure to disarm our nation - visit jerusalem and negotiate a peace treaty between the palestinians and the israelis.
russia will laugh at his nieve @ss and roll over eastern europe.
Biden was wrong - not within 6 months, but within 6 hours of being elected...
Ok so we need to build a hundred silos in Poland you say, Ivan?
“The Carter years all over again. All we need are lines at the gas stations, a new hostage crisis, a new Russian invasion of a foreign country and the return of Billy Beer and it will be just like the late 70s.”
Well, Russia did invade Georgia....we’ve elected a wimp President, I saw a lot of two and three deep cars at the gas station today....So it’s shaping up pretty much like the late 70s...oh and last I looked, the stock market was down almost 500 points. We are well on our way.
Russia's opening chess move against Obama. Other countries will take note...
Those that voted Obama, third party or stayed home, thank you for giving us the false messiah. If there is a genocide under his watch, I hope you all can sleep at night. Many of us voted for McCain, as flawed as he is (and not the choice many of us wanted as our candidate) to stop Obama because we knew the dangers of having him command our armed forces. So now Russia will utilize Obama’s and Biden’s weaknesses to cause more harm to innocents.
Carter will look like a great statesman compared to Obama.
I just heard that 100 of Obama's staff got security clearances. That makes me shudder. We are so vulnerable.
I don’t see missiles coming in from Iran. Why wouldn’t they just put bombs on freighters? Or give some group the bomb to do the dirty work?
Wait until you see the guest list.
Yep, Hussein's Hamas buddies in Gaza celebrated by lobbing 35 rockets into Israel last night.
yitbos
“I don’t see missiles coming in from Iran.”
Isn’t that the reason we’re giving for stationing them there?
This is bagdad bob bs. They don’t have any opposition - they don’t know how stupid they sound.
Missiles - to offset a missile shield? What a retarded thing to say to the world.
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