Posted on 07/05/2013 6:32:24 AM PDT by raptor22
Weaponry: As Moscow complains about U.S. missile defense plans in Europe, it is completing an anti-missile radar site in southern Russia to protect its homeland against missile strikes. Our flexibility meets their hypocrisy.
On the heels of a test last month of a missile that U.S. intelligence officials believe violates the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, Russia is completing a large radar station near Armavir situated near the Black Sea and designed to detect missiles launched from Europe and Iran.
During a flight test of the Yars-M road-mobile missile on June 6, the missile traveled from a launch center at Kapustin Yar and landed at an impact range at Sary-Shagan, about 2,000 kilometers, or 1,242 miles, away. The distance would make the missile an INF-covered weapon.
While President Obama in his Berlin speech committed the U.S. to reducing its nuclear warhead stockpile by one-third, Moscow is clearly committed to modernizing and expanding its strategic nuclear weapons capability, matching it with a missile defense capability as it seeks to limit ours.
The Armavir radar is one of four advanced missile defense radars built by Russia in recent years and being rushed into service by 2020. Each of the radar can track up to 500 objects simultaneously. Two of the stations already are deployed near St. Petersburg and in Siberia in the Irkutsk region.
The fourth radar is located in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad. That's where Moscow threatened to deploy advanced Iskander short-range nuclear-capable missiles if the U.S. went forward with Bush administration plans to deploy ground-based interceptors in Poland and missile defense radars in the Czech Republic. All the the radars are protected by highly advanced Russian S-400 air defense and anti-missile interceptors.
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I wouldn't be surprised if emperor Barry the TRAITOR supplied the technical details to the russkies as part of his "greater flexibility".
Russians actually had both a technology and deployed functional ABM systems in 1970s, long BEFORE further development and deployment was banned by treaty.
Conversely, the U.S. wants to ring Russia with missles in Eastern Europe; the so called missle defense project. The problem for Russia is that these missles can strike targets deep inside Russia.
Don't drink the colaid.
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I want one for home protection.
Our current system uses a kinetic kill technique where the interceptor actually impacts the incoming warhead. I pray we never have to use it for real.
Vlad has a lot of land to defend (12 time zones), Vlad has more Muslim problems than the USA. Vlad anticipates future problems coming from the south, he has the longest border in the world with potential unrest. Vlad is something we don’t have here, A LEADER, and a defender of his country.
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