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| Russia Test Fires Missle |
| 2003-03-28 |
| The Russian military launched a test intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday from its northwestern Plisetsk base. The Topol rocket was fired at the eastern Kamchatka peninsula, the usual target for most Russian intercontinental tests. When contacted by the agency, a Russian military space agency official refused to say whether the test had been planned before or after the US-British military attacked Iraq. Seems like they are throwing some mighty big chips on the table. |
| Posted by:becky |
| #5 Wonder how long it took Nikoli to bon-ami the rust off that missle? |
| Posted by: Brew 2003-03-29 01:48:58 |
| #4 Ok, that was my post. Shhh, I've exposed myself. Well, I only put the veil on earlier to further avoid offending Muslim sensitivities and I forgot to take it off. :-) |
| Posted by: becky 2003-03-28 09:04:09 |
| #3 hmmm, perhaps you are right and I have been seeing this in the wrong light. Found this interesting tid-bit from March 26th regarding the Arms Treaty http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RUSSIA_US?SITE=AZTUS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Ok, maybe this is all just political posturing rather than actual threats. Hey, I never claimed to be an expert :-) |
| Posted by: anon 2003-03-28 08:53:09 |
| #2 People, they REGULARLY test fire their missiles: They use air pressure to eject the missile, then the blast doors snaps shut just before it ignites. (This is not alien technology: its the same way submarine based ballistic missiles are launched.) They then reload from an underground magazine. This method makes their missiles very inaccurate, so that's why their total megatonnage is so big: they need large yield weapons to be effective within their error margins. They didn't disarm or reduce their inventory. We're letting ours degrade via tritium decay. Progress was being made on a treaty when it got tabled by 9/11, so you can go thank Bin Laden for screwing up disarmament. This is from Agence France-Presse folks! They need us, the people of the United States, to believe that Armageddon is just around the corner. Move along. Nothing new to see here... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-03-28 08:28:37 |
| #1 What does Russia hope to accomplish by his increasingly belligerent stance? You start to wonder if they actually believe America is as wimpy as presented by the NY and LA Times. There in lies the danger of being educated with white-washed history books. |
| Posted by: becky 2003-03-28 05:54:21 |