Russia Tests New Missile, In Warning Over U.S. Shield

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

By Steve Gutterman

MOSCOW | Wed May 23, 2012 4:39pm EDT

(Reuters) - Russia tested a new long-range missile on Wednesday that should improve its ability to penetrate missile defense systems, the military said, in Moscow's latest warning to Washington over deployment of a missile shield in Europe.

The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was successfully launched from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia and its dummy warhead landed on target on the Kamchatka peninsula on the Pacific coast, the Defense Ministry said.

The new missile is expected to improve Russia's offensive arsenal, "including by increasing the capability to overcome missile defense systems that are being created", the ministry said in a statement.

Russia opposes a missile shield the United States and NATO are deploying in Europe, saying it will be able to intercept Russian warheads by about 2018, weakening Moscow's nuclear arsenal and upsetting the post-Cold War balance of power.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-russia-usa-missiles-idUSBRE84M1EU20120523

[teddy51]

1. Good for Putin. I would not trust NATO or the US to maintain peace either. Russia, China, Iran,

and other countries need to team up and Stand their ground.

[tabatha]

4. Really - the Chechnyan Putin?

[JDPriestly]

5. Putin is not trustworthy.

Don't you notice how quickly this missile was developed?

Don't be fooled. Putin is no better than the leaders of our military-industrial complex. He is at least as bad, probably worse. A heartless egomaniac. Typical of our time.

In contrast, Obama is a saint.

Sorry, but it's just true.

[cstanleytech]

2. If it can penetrate such shields then they (Russia) shouldnt have a problem with

the shield being put into place now should they.

[SoutherDem]

3. Will SDI ever die?

Last I heard, which has been a while so I may have missed something, the success rate of the tests were not promising. In fact to make it work they had to make the circumstances of the test so unrealistic it could never work in a real world scenario.

I have heard some say the only reason we went to the moon was because of the slain president.

Is it the same for SDI, is for the memory of Reagan? I know Reagan wasn't killed in office but with some of the things he did he was brain dead, so same difference. He is however the Republican's Conservative God.