Posted on 12/10/2005 2:05:33 AM PST by RusIvan
MISSILE DEFENSE
Russia Developing New Generation Of Super Missiles
By Martin Sieff UPI Senior News Analyst Washington (UPI) Dec 05, 2005
Almost ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, the strategic nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia has revived -- with spending and weapons development at an intensity unseen since the days of the SS-18 and Pershing II deployments a quarter of a century ago. On Nov. 17, as reported by United Press International, the U.S. Navy successfully carried out its most ambitious and successful test yet of an anti-ballistic missile interceptor launched from an Aegis class cruiser in the Pacific Ocean. The success of the test contrasted sharply with the enormous delays, cost over-runs and major test failures that have plagued the land-based anti-missile technology deployed by the Missile Defense Agency around Fort Greely, Alaska.
But meanwhile, Russia continues to push ahead with its most massive intercontinental ballistic missile testing and upgrading program since the collapse of communism. Flush with oil export revenues, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been pouring resources into his Strategic Missile Forces to upgrade the land-mobile SS-27 Topol-M and submarine-launched Bulova ICBMs and make them maneuverable and impervious to America's still untried new anti-missile defense systems.
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Pretty warped logic. Blame the guy who wants better defensive capability for someone else's renewed emphasis on offensive capability.
If we were concentrating on offensive capability you might have a point. As we're not, you don't.
Of course, it's Bushes fault, heaven forbid we defend ourselves. I always did feel that these pieces of paper, international treaties weren't worth the paper they were written on.
In reality, if anyone is to blame for the revived arms race, it's China, and the mad mullahs of the east.
Nice try.
All the hardware in the world is worthless if you're personnel are so broke they're selling their weapons for vodka money.
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Russia's economy is smaller than California's. If they want to play. Let them play.
"All the hardware in the world is worthless if you're personnel are so broke they're selling their weapons for vodka money."
Putin has thrown in the towel on Russia as ECONOMIC ansuperpower and is going back to the only thing that made them players. He doesn't have much faith in his countrymen.
Here's a tip. Never get into a drinking contest with a Russian. You WILL lose.
Perhaps one day the Russian people will truly rise up and become the economic power they should rightly be with a truly free and democratic form of government. I sure hope so, because the Russian people have suffered long enough from fools and dictators.
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Pretty warped logic. Blame the guy who wants better defensive capability for someone else's renewed emphasis on offensive capability. ==
What about the "first strike" then? One with better defensive capability may decide that he might strike first and then defend against weaker retaliation?
Any country that gives us Maria Sharapova can't be all bad.
Unfortunately for Putin, he no longer has millions of people as slave labor to manufacture arms for Mother Russia. ===
When Mother Russia had slave labor? In 18th century perhaps? Then United States had it too in same time. So what?
Perhaps one day the Russian people will truly rise up and become the economic power they should rightly be with a truly free and democratic form of government. ===
Firstly, for this Russia has to be secured military that she can to work in peace. Then Russia has to have products which everyone will pay good price. Then maybe the form of goverment comes.
So who will they be selling this new generation of weapons to? Iran? China? India? China alone will pay for a whole lot of vodka.
"But meanwhile, Russia continues to push ahead with its most massive intercontinental ballistic missile testing and upgrading program since the collapse of communism."
Here we go again perpetrating this lie that communism at some point collapsed. Communism in Russia merely took its strategic step backward to deceive the West. Collapse? It did no such thing.
Thats a crazy website. Interesting and entertaining.
It's a Russian thing. You wouldn't understand.
Perhaps Putin recognizes that he needs a deterrent against Red Chinese aggression..I mean, if tomorrow, say, 400 million Chinese started walking northwest..Siberbia would be the next province of Beijing..
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