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Russia arms itself with sophisticated missile systems
2007-10-27
Russian Strategic Missile Forces Commander Genernal Nikolai Solovstov said here Friday that RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) with fusion warheads would be actually used by Russian forces within three years' time.

Russian experts are now bent on conducting a series of tests on such missiles before they are put into actual service, Solovstov told a news conference. Russia conducted successful tests for the use of RS-24 ICBM in May.

However, he added that Russian Missile Forces would be armed with new missile systems in the foreseeable future, but he failed to reveal the exact type of such systems.

Furthermore, Russian armed forces will be supplied with additional sophisticated Topol-M missiles before the end of this year, he said, voicing confidence that Russia was able to reproduce medium and short-range missile systems within a definite period of time.

Russia had destroyed its full stockpile of medium and short-range missiles pursuant to a relevant treaty it signed with the US in 1989. But, Moscow warns that it would quit the agreement if Washington goes ahead with the planned deployment of a missile shield system in Europe.
Posted by:Seafarious

#3  What amazes me in all of this is that within the next 20 years or so, I fully expect to see Russia and China in a full blown war over the Russian Far East - demographics are doing a push on the Chinese side and a pull on the Russian side. And instead of building up the needed conventional forces to counter the Chinese's ever improving military, all Putin can think to do is sell the Chinese everything but the kitchen sink and pour more money down the Cold War II nuclear rat hole he is busily creating. If this trend continues, Russia will be MUCH smaller in size by 2030 - and probably not even a unitary state at that point.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2007-10-27 12:36  

#2  Last thing they can afford is another Cold War. However, lower primates have problems dealing with certain aspects of projecting future consequence of fulfilling immediate needs, like displays of dominance in a group. Nihilism suits the Russkies well, so consider it 'one last great act of defiance' to history.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-10-27 10:06  

#1  The last thing we need is another Cold War.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-10-27 02:04  

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