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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian submarine test-fires ballistic missile
2007-12-26
MOSCOW - A Russian submarine in the Barents Sea successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile on Tuesday, hitting a target on the Kamchatka peninsula on Russia’s Pacific coast 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.
Until we upgrade the software on the ABM system.
TuesdayÂ’s launch is the second such test-firing of the Sineva in less than a week. The submarine-based test missile was fired from the Tula, one of seven Russian Dolphin-class vessels capable of carrying 16 intercontinental rockets and torpedoes, according to data published on the Russian Defence Ministry web site.

Officials also announced the successful test-firing of a land-launched RS-24 missile with multiple warheads from the Plesetsk range in northern Russia. A spokesman for RussianÂ’s Strategic Missile forces said the missile, first tested in May of this year, had hit its target in Kamchatka.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  FREEREPUBLIC Poster on RUSSIA TEST-FIRES NEW INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSLE artikle > NO WORRIES, BECUZ WHY WOULD RUSSIA ATTACK A SOCIALIST AMERICA? Poster claims to look forward to the day when any and all Amer citizens are truly equal, and Govt is in charge of providing all base necessities.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-12-26 22:34  

#3  STRATEGYPAGE > NAVAL FORCES:US MANDATES NUCLEAR BATTLESHIPS, + STRATEGIC WEAPONS: UNBREAKABLE. Super successful US TRIDENT testing, versus highly problematic RUSSIAN BULAVA = navalized TOPOL testing. IOW, waiting for a Russ BULAVA FBM Sub to blow up in nuke glory like the sun???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-12-26 04:27  

#2  Compare wid NOSI > US NAVY - THE F35B ROLLS OUT. Few iff any doubt the F35's outstanding capabilities given its exorbitant cost = will kick any competitor's butt. Despite its merits, questionne' has to be asked WHAT IS THE F35 FOR?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-12-26 03:38  

#1  WND > Russia has also reportedly test-fired an RS24 MIRV ICBM, similar to the TOPOL-M design.

WAFF.com > ALTERNET.org > WHAT IF AMERICA WAS INVADED AND OCCUPIED? Also from WAFF.com > Poster thread - THE WONDERFUL NEW H-6K STRATEGIC BOMBER - TO TOUCH OKINAWA, AND GUAM WHERE AMERICA'S TRIDENT AND F22 BASE ARE LOCATED. Okinawa = most of JAPAN now at high risk of PLAAF ALCM nuke-conventional strike vv KH-55/KH-555 series derivatives; + WAFF > ITAR-TASS - [RUSSIAN] AIR FORCE OFFERS TU22M3 AND TU95 STRATEGIC BOMBERS TO CHINA. Russ AF to get upgraded TU160's in lieu.

D *** NG IT, 1960's-70's Guam Taotamonas = Ancestral Ghosts/NOSTRADAMUS' "GHOSTS OF THE [Past/Future]DEAD" + OLIVER STONE, etc. aren't gonna like this since they've long ago already forecasted the USAF to give China old B52 parts.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-12-26 00:21  

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