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Well, I say we see his SS-21’s and up him some “strapped” B-2’s in Incirlik.
I really hope they don't use those on their own people...or on anyone else for that matter.
Not good.
Business Wire confirms the subject matter of the news briefing in Beijing. Link
This is Bush’s second biggest challenge of his Presidency. In some respects you could say his biggest till date. The commies are a whole different ball game than the Islamofascists.
Has Turkey weighed in on this latest development? I would think they’d have something to say.
An SS-21 can carry a nuclear weapon, but they also can carry conventional ones.
This appears to be more posturing to me. This is rapidly turning into a new “Cuban Missle Crisis.”
If this escalates and we get involved will Bush suspend the elections????
Any confirmation what they carrying besides just the launchers being moved in?
The missiles were moved in on Friday?
Putin had promised some sort of ‘response’ to the US/Poland/Czech missle defense pact. I guess this is it.
Putin had promised some sort of ‘response’ to the US/Poland/Czech missle defense pact. I guess this is it.
This is A-100 crappola. What we need to do now is not in the ‘What if?’ book. We need to bomb those SS-21’s out of existence with whatever clever stuff we have that they can’t see coming. Just bomb them out. Then tell them by way of the diplomats we’ll be escorting out of Washington, that further ‘A-100 Crappola’ will not be treated as nicely.
The SS-21 SCARAB missile (9M79) has a maximum range of 70 km and a CEP of 160 meters, while the improved composite propellant 9M79-1 (Tochka-U) has a maximum range of 120 km. The basic warhead is the 9N123F HE-Frag warhead which has 120 kg of high explosives. The 9N123K submunition warhead can probably carry either bomblets or mines. The SS-21 can also carry the AA60 tactical nuclear warhead. Other warheads are believed to include chemical, terminally guided warhead, and a smart-munition bomblet warhead. In 1981, the SS-21, a guided missile (providing improvement in both range and accuracy), began replacing the FROG in forward-deployed divisions, and 140 are were deployed as of 1988. Division-level SS-21 battalions were being consolidated into brigades in Soviet armies in East Germany.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/ss-21.htm
The OTR-21 [aka SS-21 Scarab] is a road-mobile missile launch system, designed to be deployed along with other land combat units on the battlefield. While the FROG-7 is large and inaccurate, the OTR-21 is much smaller. The missile itself can be used for precise strikes on enemy targets with tactical importance, such as control posts, bridges and storage facilities. It can be also very effective against troop concentrations and airfields, weakening the enemy overall. If needed, the FRAG-HE warhead can be replaced with a nuclear, biological or chemical warhead. The solid propellant makes the missile easier to maintain and deploy. OTR-21 units are usually managed in a brigade structure, with 18 launchers in a brigade. Each launcher is provided with 2 or 3 missiles. The vehicle is completely amphibious, with a maximum road speed of 60 km/h and 8 km/h in water. It is NBC-protected. The system has been in development since 1968. Subsequently, three variants have been created.Full TextThe initial variant OTR-21 Tochka (Scarab A) entered service with the Soviet Army in 1975. The missile has a weight of 2 000 kg. Its warhead is 482 kg of conventional HE, fragmentation or nuclear. The minimal range is about 15 km, and the maximum range is 70 km, and CEP is estimated to be about 150 m. The guidance system is inertial. The lethal radius of the conventional warhead is more than 200 m. The length of the missile is 6.4 m, its diameter - 0,65 m.
An improved variant, the Scarab B (Tochka-U), has been introduced in 1989. The range is increased to 120 km by improving the propellant. CEP is less than 95 m. A third variant, Scarab C, has also been developped in the 90s, with a range of 185 km, a weight of 1 800 kg and even a smaller CEP. North Korea is known to have developed a local variant, the KN-2, by reverse-engineering Syrian-supplied Scarab A missiles.[1]
One of suspected uses of the OTR-21 Tochka in combat came on October 21, 1999 during the Second Chechen War. On that date U.S. military surveillance systems tracked a launch of five to six short-range missiles from within Russia that landed in the city of Grozny. The missiles struck a marketplace and maternity ward, resulting in at least 143 fatalities...[2]
P.S. They have no need to.