Russia To Deploy New Weapons To Counter US Missile Shield

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia will counter NATO's U.S.-led missile defense program by deploying new strike weapons capable of piercing the shield, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

Putin told defense officials that by developing defenses against ballistic missiles Washington aims to "neutralize" Russia's strategic nuclear deterrent and gain a "decisive military superiority."

He said that Moscow will respond by developing "strike systems capable of penetrating any missile defenses."

"Over the past three years, companies of the military-industrial complex have created and successfully tested a number of prospective weapons systems that are capable of performing combat missions in a layered missile defense system. Such systems have already begun to enter the military this year. And now we are talking about development of new types of weapons," Putin said.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_MILITARY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-11-10-10-08-12

[Fast Walker 52]

1. war is a racket, and missile defense programs are destabilizing and lead to arms buildups

[jalan48]

2. Get out your checkbook-these folks don't work for minimum wage.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Military-Industrial-Complex scores again.

Tax Payers lose again. Same shit just another day.

[840high]

8. Yep - sad

[joshcryer]

4. Wishful thinking.

The US sat network is what's important. It's how knew about MH17 and about 9268. The US has extreme IR tracking abilities.

It's fascinating how Putin used "military industrial complex" in a positive context, though. Bringing back fascism one day at a time.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. The only winning move...

...is not to play.

[Major Nikon]

6. A barge loaded with a nuke would defeat such a system

Saint Ronnie's "Star Wars" always was a farce to be reckoned with which has never been anything more than a money pit solely benefiting the Military Industrial Complex.

[Purveyor]

7. Russia could overwhelm any missile defense system currently

developed just by volume alone.

[Midnight Writer]

12. The military equivalent of the "Border Fence"

An expensive boondoggle that is easily defeated or circumvented.

Imagine: We are going to detect, track and destroy thousands of nuclear missiles before they can do damage to our homeland.

Yet, on 9/11/2001, we could not track rogue aircraft in our most populated and heavily defended area because "they turned their transponders off".

[vkkv]

9. Yeah yeah good for them... everybody hates Putin and Russia anyway except for GWB ..........n/t

[Sparky 1]

10. Oh dear. We need Bernie!

[BillZBubb]

11. Now the republicans will be screaming for

anti, anti, anti missile defense systems.

This could get confusing.

[bemildred]

13. Gee, who could have predicted this? nt

[uhnope]

14. lol. Dear Leader is now rocket scientist, invents new missile for benefit of common people

Good luck, asshole, with the brain drain of every scientist that can manage to get our of yr shitty dictatorship