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Report: Russia to Refit Nuclear Missiles
Las Vegas Sun ^
| December 15, 2006 at 7:25:11 PST
| VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
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Posted on 12/15/2006 9:29:05 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
At least if they launch it at us it will hit South America. Now if they target Brazil... well then we're in trouble.
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posted on
12/15/2006 10:41:02 AM PST
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Russian bear continues to stir to life once again. Anyone still think Russia is our friend?
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posted on
12/15/2006 10:47:20 AM PST
by
pctech
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Something like %80% of major businesses are run by ex security or military officers.
Russia is losing population.
Average mortality age of Russian male is 50
Highest rates of abortion in the world.
High rates of Muslim growth, such that by 2050 Russia could be a Muslim nation.
Putin is stealing, chasing away foreign skilled workers and investment.
Russian state is taking over Vodka production, such that massive bootlegging is producing liver/people killing rotgut.
The Russian Navy is way down and now takes a decade from keel to launch. Large and growing corruption at all levels. Other than that, things are great.
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posted on
12/15/2006 10:49:12 AM PST
by
Leisler
To: Leisler; GarySpFc
Something like %80% of major businesses are run by ex security or military officers. Russia is losing population.
Average mortality age of Russian male is 50
Highest rates of abortion in the world.
High rates of Muslim growth, such that by 2050 Russia could be a Muslim nation.
Putin is stealing, chasing away foreign skilled workers and investment.
Russian state is taking over Vodka production, such that massive bootlegging is producing liver/people killing rotgut.
The Russian Navy is way down and now takes a decade from keel to launch.
Large and growing corruption at all levels. Other than that, things are great.
What do you think, Gary?
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posted on
12/15/2006 12:13:46 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Kremlin's advanced, expanding ICBM force is being modernized with the addition of the SS-X-27 which can be MIRVed x6. Russian & Red Chinese strategic missiles (below) with nuclear warheads continue to pose a grave threat to US.
Both Putin's "neo-Soviet" Russia & Red China continue developing new, longer range strategic missile systems, many with MIRV capabilities. Somebody is planning for all out nuclear war.
If the START II treaty is ratified by the Russian Duma and the New York Protocols are ratified by the Duma and the US Senate, ICBMs with MIRV payloads will be banned after 2007. Washington would be very unwise not being even more prepared to counter any threat.
Additional Russian ICBM data & photos can be reviewed this FR thread "The Resurgent Bear" posted by Tailgunner Joe.
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posted on
12/15/2006 2:39:54 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free!)
To: M. Espinola; Marine_Uncle
I can't look at that....been reading the Ezekial Option novel....
To: M. Espinola
Somebody is planning for all out nuclear war. My only question is whether it will come in the remainder of my life (~30 years, at best), or later, not "if".
And I do think that launch trails from Russia and China will converge on North America, although those two parties may turn on each other at some point.
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posted on
12/15/2006 3:02:43 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Mr. Mojo
The Minuteman III have all been reduced to single warhead systems as of early 2001. No upgrade has been brought forward at this time.
To: Mr. Mojo
Well, we said the ABM treaty was no longer valid since the USSR is gone, so they probably don't think the START treaty is valid either.
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posted on
12/15/2006 3:06:56 PM PST
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: M. Espinola
The question is who will they be using them on. Not the US at this time, but lets face it, Russia has a lot of angry also stans with possible nukes around it.
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posted on
12/15/2006 3:10:43 PM PST
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: BearWash
"And I do think that launch trails from Russia and China will converge on North America, although those two parties may turn on each other at some point." Both are milking US for all the high-tech data they accumulate, then the unthinkable will be directed at US. Afterward, as with Hitler and Stalin, they battle it out with each other for global supremacy.
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posted on
12/15/2006 3:33:23 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
On page 333 of The Ezekiel Option, for example, a fictional Iranian leader calls for the annihilation of Israel, saying, "The world must understandthe Zionists must be humbled. Death to Israel". Sounds extremely familiar.
On page 74 of the novel, a fictional character warns that the Iranians "have been buying the latest weaponry from Moscow" and that "it is only a matter of time before they strike" Israel. On page 140, a fictional senior adviser to the President of Russia meets with the Iranian Ayatollah and the new president of Iran "to formalize the military alliance that had been developing between Russia and Iran" and "to show the Americans that a new global superpower was on the rise."
Putin is making the brutal Iranian régime's dreams come true .
- Iran and Russia in $1 Billion Arms DealAljazeera.Net (12/2/05)
- Moscow Inks Arms Deal with TehranMoscow Times (12/5/05)
- Russia Agrees to Sell Missiles to IranAssociated Press (12/5/05)
And that was a portion of last year's Russian arms sales to Iran.
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posted on
12/15/2006 3:49:26 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free!)
To: redgolum
For the right price "Stans" in league with Moscow could sell out to the highest jihadist bidder.
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posted on
12/15/2006 3:58:36 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Taint a pretty picture by any means. Guess we need more LUKOIL gas stations across the United States to help finance their missle programs.
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posted on
12/15/2006 4:04:08 PM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Update:
Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (left to right) inspecting mobile Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile systems while on a visit to a division of the Strategic Missile Forces deployed in Teikovo, Ivanovo Region.
(From left to right, foreground): Vice-Premeir, Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov, President Vladimir Putin and the strategic missile troops' commander-in-chief Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov on observing the land-based mobile strategic missile system Topol-M while visiting the guards strategic missile division in the town of Teikovo, Ivanovo region.
Land-based mobile strategic missile system Topol-M getting into position trategic missile division in the town of Teikovo, Ivanovo Region
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posted on
12/16/2006 10:37:44 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Update:
Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (left to right) inspecting mobile Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile systems while on a visit to a division of the Strategic Missile Forces deployed in Teikovo, Ivanovo Region.
(From left to right, foreground): Vice-Premeir, Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov, President Vladimir Putin and the strategic missile troops' commander-in-chief Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov on observing the land-based mobile strategic missile system Topol-M while visiting the guards strategic missile division in the town of Teikovo, Ivanovo region.
Land-based mobile strategic missile system Topol-M getting into position trategic missile division in the town of Teikovo, Ivanovo Region
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posted on
12/16/2006 10:38:06 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free!)
To: Mr. Mojo
Yep, they're violating several treaties and agreements by re-MIRVing their ICBM's.
These treaties were why we retired the Peacekeeper missiles and are de-MIRVing the Minuteman III missiles.
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posted on
12/16/2006 10:41:00 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
To: COEXERJ145
The MX/Peacekeeper was our finest ICBM; it never should've been retired.
Thankfully the Trident IIs aboard our Boomers still carry eight MIRVs each. ....at least I hope they still do.
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posted on
12/16/2006 10:52:43 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
Thankfully the MX's are in storage and can be reactivated if necessary.
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posted on
12/16/2006 10:54:32 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
To: M. Espinola
Thanks for the photos and the update on the Novel...got to get back to reading.....
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