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Russia Is Building the Largest ICBM Ever (and America Should Be Worried)
National Interest ^ | May 9, 2016 | Dave Majumdar

Posted on 05/10/2016 5:58:26 AM PDT by C19fan

Russia’s will deploy its new RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles to units in Siberia and the southern Urals when the enormous new weapon becomes operational in 2018. The massive liquid-fueled missiles will replace the existing Cold War-era R-36M2 Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) ICBM—which is the largest such weapon ever built. “The development of the Sarmat silo-based missile system with a heavy missile is nearing completion,” Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, commander of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces told the Moscow-based TASS News agency. “It will replace the Voyevoda missile system in the Uzhur missile division and the Dombarovsky position area.”

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: icbm; missiles; nuclear; resetbutton; russia; whatresetbutton
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To: OldMissileer

I was not a nuclear warrior, obviously.


41 posted on 05/10/2016 12:07:07 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Mouton; OldMissileer

I want a conceal-carry nuclear weapon for when a whole country tries to mug me.


42 posted on 05/10/2016 12:24:12 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Whatever the question, Donald Trump is the answer.)
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To: Lazamataz

Why stop at one, put more in your magazine....many muggers out there these days.


43 posted on 05/10/2016 12:42:20 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Mouton

Good point, but the NFA $200 tax is expensive, so I can really only have one.


44 posted on 05/10/2016 1:04:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Whatever the question, Donald Trump is the answer.)
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To: Netz

The leaflets in question were distributed by an outfit headed by Edwin Walker, whom many conservatives considered a nut.


45 posted on 05/10/2016 2:16:14 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: JusPasenThru

“Finally, the President will make an historic visit to Hiroshima with Prime Minister Abe to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”

Unfortunately there is no security for us without OUR nuclear weapons.

Obama has not ever understood this.


46 posted on 05/10/2016 4:26:05 PM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: Fiji Hill

Gen. Walker was behind that? Wasn’t he the guy LHO supposedly took a few shots at, weeks before Nov. 22?


47 posted on 05/14/2016 9:09:53 PM PDT by Netz
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