Russian Nuclear Missile System Ready Within A Few Years

Zaman Daily ^ | 11/18/04 | Zaman

[claudwitz]

After a statement from Russian President Vladimir Putin saying Russia has developed a new kind of nuclear missile system that no other country could ever have, speculation about the new Russian defense system is high around the world.

According to the Russian news agencies Interfax and ITAR-Tass, Putin disclosed that the trials of new missile shields system were complete and that the new missiles will be ready to use within a few years.

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[FormerACLUmember]

The big $50 a barrel oil money windfall in Russia does not seem to be going to the people.

[sully777]

Re:"Russia has developed a new kind of nuclear missile system that no other country COULD EVER HAVE..."

Seems like a slight overstatement on Putin's part. This from a country that had to steal the designs off Packard to get a Soviet limosine.

[Westlander]

Hey Vlady, Will they hold up to plasma beams from satellites?

[Straight Vermonter]

Did you ever notice that the Russian big shots on TV used to always have a whole table full of telephones? Watch the next time you see a history channel show about Russia in the 60s-80s.

The reason for this was because they were never able to master the technology of a multiline telephone!

[Straight Vermonter]

Hey Vlady, Will they hold up to plasma beams from satellites?

Or Rods From God

[Truth666]

It definetly isn't an overstatement if Russia will complete what announced now and immediately do what it announced in 2003.

[denikin]

The KGB defector Golitsyn said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was an act of strategic deception. The goal was to remove U.S. vigilance, and to get us to slash our defense budget. Meanwhile, they would prepare for ultimate victory.

Now that those stated goals have largely been accomplished, it looks like they're preparing to "bury" us again.

Consensus about Golitsyn was that he was a screwball, and anyone that believed him was paranoid.

Anyone care to reassess that opinion now?

[MindBender26]

Was doing a report in '96 on tenth anniversary of Chernobyl explosion. Local contact got us into Control Room #3, cameras and all, while it was operating. (1 and 3 were still operating then.)

Reactor supervisor had 6 telephones on his desk. All were modern, touch tone (buttons, no dial) phones. All were same model. When phones rang, he had to put hands on phone to feel which one was ringing!

Instruments in this control room had no tell-tales or paper recorders, so if an alarm went off and stopped before the operator got there to read it, no one had any idea how high or low the reading had gone.

But, the did have bombs that made big bangs!

[skinkinthegrass]

The KGB defector Golitsyn said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was an act of strategic deception. The goal was to remove U.S. vigilance, and to get us to slash our defense budget.

..I remember that. ...didn't say I believed it, but now after the Klintoons were in office...and $hrillarys' run for the W/H, anything is possible. ..iceskating in HELL. :/

[MindBender26]

> The reason for this was because they were never able to master the technology of a multi line telephone!

Actually, no. Stalin forbade multi line phones as bourgeois, and it has lingered.

The West thought we were so hot because the Mig 25 had vacuum tubes... only to learn they were immune to EMP problems that would have destroyed our transistor equipped aircraft.

Russian stuff is crude and not pretty, from rifles to aircraft, but it's usually rugged and it works, especially in low intensity and surprise engagements. Ever see their Izamrid night vision system binoculars. One eye is "starlight," the other is thermal. Great stuff.

[Crusher138]

Take the Kursk incident, which is widely speculated to be a fail test of a cavitating torpedo.

Imagine now building a submarine that would launch cavitating torpedo/missiles that would cruise under the water at high speeds until just offshore, at which point they come up out of the water and act like a cruise missile, flying at less than 500 feet and impacting a city before anyone even knew they were coming.

[Rain-maker]

 

 

Moskit
SS-N-22 Sunburn

The Moskit (3M80) is a ramjet-powered missile

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/moskit.htm

[Rain-maker]

RT-2UTTH - Topol-M
SS-27

The single-warhead RT-2UTTH Topol-M is an advanced version of the silo-based and mobile Topol intercontinental ballistic missile. While the SS-25 Topol is generally similar to the American Minuteman-2, the more sophisticated SS-27 Topol-M is comparable to the American Minuteman-3.

 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/rt-2pmu.htm

[magdalena]

No other country could have it, eh? Those folks never had an original idea. I'd be willing to bet they stole it from the US.

[Poohbah]

Take the Kursk incident, which is widely speculated to be a fail test of a cavitating torpedo.

Actually, it was caused by their equivalent of a Mark 48 heavyweight torpedo.

Imagine now building a submarine that would launch cavitating torpedo/missiles that would cruise under the water at high speeds until just offshore, at which point they come up out of the water and act like a cruise missile, flying at less than 500 feet and impacting a city before anyone even knew they were coming.

The weapon would be bigger than most submarines, or the underwater phase would be extremely short.

[jriemer]

The big $50 a barrel oil money windfall in Russia does not seem to be going to the people.

No different than OPEC profits.

[b2stealth]

New missile will be powered by kerosene and made with a new breakthrough technology called "NO NAILS"!

[sure_fine]

its not hard to figure out how they financed it

The resolution supporting Volcker's investigation called on the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, the Iraqis themselves, and all 191 U.N. member states and their regulatory authorities "to cooperate fully by all appropriate means with the inquiry."

Russia had initially opposed Volcker's request for a Security Council resolution on grounds that a council statement was enough and its members should not look backward and "stir up the old issue" of oil-for-food. But it relented and supported the resolution.

The official close to the Volcker inquiry said, however, that "the Russians have been reluctant to provide witnesses and information."

"They are being problematic and they are digging in their heels. They're not handing over materials," the official said.

Official: Russia Not Cooperating in Probe

[okkev68]

But, but "Pootie" is our friend. I know that quietly he armed Iraq, has been meeting with China, and has been building up is nuclear arsenal. He's just being a silly "Pootie".

We have looked deep into his eyes and seen his soul, and we know he would never do anything mean to hurt US. He's "Pootie Pute".