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Arms race begins again
Well Russia gets surrounded with a missile defense shield and they come up with a stealth nuke...
dodgy news paper but.. you get the gist.
Russia tests stealth missile that could penetrate US shield
Russia has successfully tested a stealth missile able to penetrate the US defence system being built in Poland.
In a clear show of military strength amid rising tensions with Nato allies, Kremlin chiefs fired a Topol RS-12M rocket, which has nuclear capabilities, from their Plesetsk space centre to a target 3,700 miles across the country.
The test came a week after Washington and Warsaw formally agreed a deal to host components of a US missile defence shield in Poland. While American officials insist the shield is designed to defend against a potential attack from Iran or North Korea, Moscow has maintained that it is an unacceptable affront to its own security.
The Russian Foreign Ministry last week promised "to react, and not only through diplomatic protests" to the shield's construction.
Following the test strike, Col Alexander Vovk of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces said: "The launch was specially tasked to test the missile's capability to avoid ground-based detection systems."
The missile hit its target "with high precision, demonstrating its capability to deliver pinpoint strikes on well-defended targets," Col Vovk added.
The Topol RS-12M, which is referred to as the SS-25 Sickle by Nato, weighs 45 tonnes, has a maximum range of 6,125 miles and can carry one 550-kiloton nuclear warhead. The development of the weapon began in 1977 and it has been part of the Russian arsenal since the Cold War.
However, earlier models have been updated and their service life extended. Col Vovk said the latest model was less detectable and its path less predictable by shields.
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QT said
Ah, safe times we life in! ...I think I'm retiring in SE Asia next year!
britexpat said
AbuAmerican.. ...I always take this type of report with a pinch of salt.. However, it serves the purposes of the Russians..They are telling Europe and especially Poiland etc, that we can get you whenever we want , even though you may have American protection..
Look what happened in tne Gulf war.. The USA made out that the Patriot misile was the best thing since sliced bread.. Later analysis proved that the success rate was actually much lower than claimed..
Platao36 said
Yeaps, like always, a lot of ...Yeaps, like always, a lot of retoric just to keep appearances
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Gypsy said
And here I used to lament ...And here I used to lament that I was so young during the Cold war that I don't remember it. When do we start hiding under our desks to protect ourselves from a nuclear attack?
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adnanmzfr said
Gypsy you cannot survive a ...Gypsy you cannot survive a nulear attack by hiding underside the desk,i am certain.
As far as i know that The Topol missile is a type of a cruise missile having a GPS system in it. It is stealthy in a sense and the way it picks up the route that avoids the radars range or radius of coverage. It also does so by staying very low to the ground. So its not that new a technology. Few european,south asian countries pocess this indigenious technology of pin point strike. It was well understood by every one that even if the missile shield will be installed it can be countered at least by Russians with not that diffculty. Dont know the logic.
Gypsy said
I'm sarcastically referring ...I'm sarcastically referring to what my parents were taught to do in the 1960's.
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MagicDragon said
adnan is too young to know ...adnan is too young to know this, gypsy.
Gypsy said
If I remember correctly I ...If I remember correctly I was still taught this in kindergarten. :P
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brutus_ceasar said
Hey Adnan, are you techie? ...Hey Adnan, are you techie? How come you know a lot about this things?? HHHmmm....... (thinking)......
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it...
She moved in with me.
adnanmzfr said
So your parents told you to ...So your parents told you to hide under the table when there is a nuclear attack . This is not possible i think, you must be mistaken. I think then must be a teenager in 1960s.
The nulcear weapons are equally distructive as they were in 1960s to the level that any one hiding under the table wont survive.
adnanmzfr said
Brutus i know these things, ...Brutus i know these things, i have a military backgorund as my father was in the Army and i used to read the articles sometimes.
MagicDragon said
well, adnan her parents ...well, adnan her parents were told that. And I also remember having seen some spots where people put their briefcases on their heads and lie down flat on the ground or better behind a small wall.
Gypsy said
Adnan, take a step away from ...Adnan, take a step away from your studies and study Cold War North America and you'll find out this was taught in schools.
No one is arguing with your that this is stupid, this is just what we were taught.
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adnanmzfr said
No i think that the people ...No i think that the people were taught to move to the shelters specifically built for this purpose. The training that you are talking about is regarding the earth quake protection.
What do you think ?.
britexpat said
Gypsy.. ...I remember reading a British Government leaflet on a Chemical attack once..
One suggestion was hide under the dining table and cover yourselves with a bed sheet.
Also, hide in the Bathroom. Use wet towels and put them against the doors and windows..
One interesting aspect.. If, the UK is attacked, there sre a select few "civil servants" who will go into an underground bunker to continue running the government.
MagicDragon said
adnan, some info ...adnan, some info here:
http://www.unitedsta...
Gypsy said
No Adnan, we were taught to ...No Adnan, we were taught to hide under your desk in school. We were told to build bomb shelters at home. Don't underestimate the stupidity of North American governments.
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MagicDragon said
From the US government! ...From the US government!
RED_POPE said
Gypsy, FALL OUT SHELTER ...I would not mind at all, If you take cover inside my Civil Defense Fall out shelter. Definitely that would put a spin, to our long conversations and entertainments.
I hear St. Patrick was an Englishman!"
britexpat said
RP.. ...Typical.. North Americans sticking together again.. I think Gypsy is safer in Canada.. They don't have a beef against anybody and they are also a "Nuclear Free Zone"
adnanmzfr said
Well it may be the common ...Well it may be the common sense that if you dont have anything to protect yourself then hide yourself some where under the cover, but definately not under "my" table (you used the word "your" table :-) ).
No body knows how effective is this but certainly people living far off from the nuclear impact can save them in this manner. Hope this never happens to any place in the world.
Gypsy said
Oh Lord God, help me. ...Oh Lord God, help me. :P
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DaRuDe said
Oh what a ...CHILDISH ARGUMENT