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<i>Mystery over new Russian weapon








MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russia has designed a "revolutionary" weapon that would make the prospective U.S. missile defense useless, Russian news agencies reported, quoting a senior Defense Ministry official.

The official, who was not identified by name, said tests conducted during last month's military maneuvers would dramatically change the philosophy behind development of Russia's nuclear forces, the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies reported on Monday.

If deployed, the new weapon would take the value of any U.S. missile shield to "zero," the news agencies quoted the official as saying.

The official said the new weapon would be inexpensive, providing an "asymmetric answer" to U.S. missile defenses, which are proving extremely costly to develop.

Russia, meanwhile, also has continued research in prospective missile defenses and has an edge in some areas compared to other nations, the official said.

The statement reported Monday was in line with claims by President Vladimir Putin's that experiments performed during last month's maneuvers proved that Russia could soon build strategic weapons that could puncture any missile-defense system.

At the time, Col-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, explained that the military tested a "hypersonic flying vehicle" that was able to maneuver between space and the earth's atmosphere.

Military analysts said that the mysterious new weapons could be a maneuverable ballistic missile warhead or a hypersonic cruise missile.

While Putin said the development of such new weapons wasn't aimed against the United States, most observers viewed the move as Moscow's retaliation to the U.S. missile defense plans.

After years of vociferous protests, Russia reacted calmly when Washington withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 in order to develop of a nationwide missile shield. But U.S.-Russian relations have soured again lately, and Moscow has complained about Washington's plans to build new low-yield nuclear weapons.


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All this without ten bucks to their name.

Impressive...

LOL, losers.

"US Snipers, Providing surgical strikes since 1776"

We in large part more than likely helped fund it, one way or another...Besides they are just pissed that 7 former Warsaw Pact members, includng the former Baltic Russian Republics joined NATO...



Edited by - chadrewsky on Mar 29 2004 8:06 PM

They couldn't even get the launches of the old missles to work correctly...and they expect the world to believe this crap...whatever...lol....

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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Russia, meanwhile, also has continued research in prospective missile defenses and has an edge in some areas compared to other nations, the official said.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> Yeah, they're paranoid.



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I was waiting for someone to post this. First of all lets remember something, regardless of what we see in the news about the CIS and former USSR, there is a vast country with a lot of places to hide things. The Russians had cities hidden to the world for the production of military equipment. They were self sufficient andnoone was allowed to come or go. A few generations wre born and died there having never left. They didnt want to because they had the best. I think thoere are still a few of those left. Glasnost and perestroika decimated the country politically, but dont for one second believe that the former USSR is out of the long term game. I dont believe it and wont. And I wont for a few reasons but the simplest being this; they have been overrun and occupied so many times, and they are a proud but paranoid people that worry not just about relations with America but also NATO encroachment AND lets not forget Sino / Russian relations that are always strained. Just like that weapon that went through that Abrams a few months back. We though they tested it but didnt know they fielded it. Well wake up people I think the Spymaster has some junk up his sleeve and there isnt anyone better at hiding it than a born and bred KGB / GRU liar. But thats just humble opinion.

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