Illegal aliens.
Posted on 07/02/2006 7:34:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russia Successfully Launches Ballistic Missile
July 1, 2006 10:00 a.m. EST
Som Patidar - All Headline News Staff Writer Moscow, Russia (AHN) - On Friday, Russia successfully launched a ballistic missile from Barents Sea to earth land in the eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, in combat training, a defense press service reported.
As per the press statement by defense press service, the RSM-54 missile was fired from the submarine at 10:25 Moscow time (0625 GMT) from the Barents Sea in the direction of the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
"The successful launch confirmed the high readiness of the maritime strategic nuclear forces and the efficiency of the tactical control system," a defense official said in release.
Testing / training for whom?
So maybe Russia wants to rejoin the cold war? I'm game, let's finish them off this time.
Reliability/safety readiness produces confidence and reduces edginess.
Illegal aliens.
I wonder if this launch had an easier time then the last I recall of Russian SLBM wargames.
2004 February 16: In Severomorsk, President Putin boards the submarine TK-17 Archangelsk, which around 19:00 Moscow Time departs for the training area in the Barents Sea to monitor the launches of two R-29RM (Sineva) ballistic missiles from the submerged submarine K-407 Novomoskovsk (Delta IV by Western classification).
February 17: Both attempts to launch R-29RM missiles from the K-407 apparently fail. Accounts of the events onboard the submarine varied wildly. An official statement from the Northern Fleet said that a satellite blocked signals for launches. However, Russian media reported that one missile either moved several centimeters in its silo, or was ejected from the submarine and then plunged to the bottom of the sea nearby. Search crews were reportedly attempting to locate the missile.
To add to the confusion, admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, claimed that the submarine exercise envisioned a "virtual launch" only and no attempt of to actually fire the missile had ever been planned. He called reports about the failures a "gossip." Remembering awkward statements of the Russian navy in the days of the Kursk disaster in August 2000, few people in Russia believed such an explanation. From bits of information available at the time, it seemed that launches had been planned, but both missiles had never left their silos.
While the independent Russian press scrambled to find out details of the events, the country's major TV channels, controlled by the government, "forgot" to mention the problems in the Barents Sea.
By mid-March 2004, Russian media reported that a special commission investigating the mishaps during Security 2004 exercise, had concluded that the failure of the ADK-3M/Sluz automated launch system had caused aborts of missile firings on February 17.
We're not at war with Russia. We are in a state of war with N Kor. Makes a difference in the degree of alarm we should display for otherwise similar events.
Exactly! All the more reason a client state wishing to purchase a turn-key SLBM system would have Russia conduct the launch, whether it's training or a purchase demo. Be afraid, be very afraid.
I wonder how many of 'em they've sold to Iran and China?
I believe the Ruskies have had, like half a dozen successful submarine launches since then. They still routinely test ballastic missiles, as does the United States.
Russia has sublaunched ICBMs? I didn't know that! Ping!
Is there an Iranian or Iraqi terrorist in that happy group of illegals? I think I see at least one, but he may do lawns, so he's OK.
Why does Russia need this???
Ping
I disagree. We have a problem with Il Kim because he won't tell us when he will launch, where the rocket will go, and what is on board. It is part of the treaty.
He told us and other members of the UN to screw off.
Was this launch confirmed or "virtual"
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