[Buckeye McFrog]

Satan 2:

This time, it’s EVIL!

[IamConservative]

Seems doubtful that you can make an ICBM stealthy given the launch detection systems out there and heat signature.

[areukiddingme1]

Don’t worry, obamalamadingdong has got our backs, he will do what he always does when confronted by foreign enemies, he will squat and pee....

[Billthedrill]

Texas has just under 270,000 square miles to it. I’m calling bovine ordure on this one. If they want to impress me any they’re going to have to test it on...oh, I dunno...Mecca. Yeah, they test it successfully on Mecca and I’ll sent a written apology.

[Mouton]

“The missile is expected to be capable of delivering up to a dozen warheads”

No problem here, we have a treaty and they can only have so many warheads. In fact I believe we have removed many of the MIRV warheads from ours so they only carry 4 now. All his excellency has to do now is amend the treaty and tell the Ruskies they can only have 2 or less on any missile, problem solved.

[Romulus]

Thanks, Vlad; we’ve got this. We’re destroying America on our own just fine.

[skimbell]

BIG DEAL!

Have the Ruskies been destroying their own coal/energy industry or building windmills all over the place?

Or do they have "trons...trensdgand...trends drag queen bathrooms?

Yeah, I didn't think so!

[blueunicorn6]

Russia’s version of “the Lepage glue gun”

A tip of the hat to Catch-22.

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s OK. Obama stopped all our Nuclear Deterrent R&D the first Month he was in Office.

He thought he would lead by example.

That showed em’...

[17th Miss Regt]

It is expected to have a range of 10,000 km, allowing Moscow to attack European Muslim cities including London...

Fixed it.

[montag813]

Um, we don’t use just radar anymore. Stupid journalists.

[Regulator]

This terrifying doomsday weapon is likely to strike fear into the hearts of Western military chiefs

Oh, don't worry. They've known about it for a long time.

as current missile defence technology is totally incapable of stopping it

Umm...maybe.

My suggestion: we contract with the Russians for 50 of them for ourselves. We can gettum cheap and besides, that big of an order will bog down the companies building it, and keep them occupied for at least a decade.

[chrisser]

Sounds like some sort of nuke shot gun.

[Vaquero]

“Obama to visit Hiroshima to promote nuke-free world”

That’ll scare those Ruskies. American Disarmament

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3429217/posts

[Olog-hai]

Funny how a “Christian nation” names its weapons after the god of this present age instead.

[arthurus]

The CIA and DoD have likely known this is in the works for some time and countermeasures are being or are developed.
The hype from the Russians sounds like this might just be the Russian version of Star Wars, though the Russian government itself is putting out the hyperbole.
Reagan allowed outlets like Popular Science to speculate and do thoughtful articles on how space based x-ray lasers would work and the MSM carried it from there. The government just didn't "confirm or deny." In this case the hype just might produce unintended consequences for Russia in the form of rapidly and vastly improved technology in America because we don't rely on Russia to be the source of our knowledge. Back in the 80's they relied on leaks and what they thought was stolen computer technology to chase after countermeasures to Space Wars and other projects. They barked expensively and extensively up a whole forest of wrong trees and accelerated the wastage of the resources remaining from their plunder of Eastern Europe in the late 40s and the 50s.

[MarchonDC09122009]

ETL BUMP
A number of folks here proclaimed Russia to no.longer be a threat to the US.
This new ICBM development says otherwise.

[moovova]

Destroy the entire country?

What the heck good would a missile like that be to anyone except a muslim?

The spoils of war would be...spoiled.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Moscow meda claims terrifying weapon can dodge radar defences and bring destruction to an area the size of 'Texas or France'

Then they must have tested or have a nuke that will yield 40 times the power of the Tsar Bomba (100 MT). Because that bomb, if it were detonated dead center of France would only destroy an area at a radius of about 300-400km at most....with an estimate of 170k-200k fatalities.

So, I call BS.

Nukemap

[StoneWall Brigade]

Cold War Part Two

Strategic defense ping