US Plans Spur Russian Missile Upgrades

[unhappycamper]

US Plans Spur Russian Missile Upgrades
December 02, 2008
Associated Press

MOSCOW - Russia's military is planning to upgrade its missiles to allow them to evade American weapons in space and penetrate any prospective missile shield, a Russian general says.

In comments to the Interfax news agency on Dec. 1, Russia's Strategic Missile Forces chief, Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, as saying that Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles will be modernized to protect them from space-based components of the U.S. missile defense system.

The upgrade will make the missiles' warheads capable of flying "outside the range" of the space-based system, Solovtsov was quoted as saying.

He didn't elaborate, but Russian officials have previously boasted about prospective new warheads capable of making sharp maneuvers to dodge missile defense systems.

Solovtsov also reportedly said the military will commission new RS-24 missiles equipped with state-of-the-art systems to help penetrate a missile shield. He did not specify that Moscow intended to penetrate a U.S. missile shield, but the Kremlin has fiercely opposed the U.S. plan to deploy a battery of 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a related radar in the Czech Republic.


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[RethugAssKicker]

1. You'd have to be an asshole not to expect this....

So we continue to waste billions on a bull shit missile "defense" system...
Of course though, we do know that it is really an offensive system !