Russian submarine test fires hybrid ballistic missile

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/25/2127271.htm

Posted 10 hours 26 minutes ago

A Russian submarine in the northern Barents Sea has successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile, hitting a target on the Kamchatka peninsula minutes later, the Ministry of Defence said.

"The launch was carried out from the submarine platform in line with military training. The rocket warhead arrived down range at the designated time," the ministry said in a statement.

The RSM-54, or Sineva, is a hybrid ballistic missile that in its final stages becomes a modified cruise missile. In this guise, the warhead cannot be targeted by anti-missile systems that rely on a ballistic trajectory for their calculations.

This latest launch is the second such test-firing of the Sineva in less than a week. Speaking after the last successful launch, a general said Russia could thwart any anti-missile system in the foreseeable future.

"The military hardware now on our weapons, and those that will appear in the next few years, will enable our missiles to outperform any anti-missile system, including future systems," General Nikolai Solovtsov told journalists on December 17.

[Selatius]

1. Yes, Bush, Putin is sending you a message. Are you listening? n/t

[ixion]

3. oh, they're listening, but they probably don't care

because they seem hell-bent on bringing on WW III.

[madokie]

4. no he won't listen, in fact he would see it as a challenge

if it was a real challenge between the crawford coward and putty putt the texas snake would run like a sidewinder



http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/april/papr/du_sidewind.html

[Nailzberg]

2. Even the Russian military is ahead of us on global warming?!?!

hehehe.:crazy: