Russia test-launches new missile

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Last updated May 29, 2007 4:33 a.m. PT

Russia test-launches new missile

By JIM HEINTZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

MOSCOW -- Russia test-launched a new intercontinental
ballistic missile Tuesday that is capable of carrying multiple
independent warheads, the Russian Strategic Missile
Forces said.

The missile, called the RS-24, was fired from a mobile
launcher at the Plesetsk launch in northwestern Russia and
its test warhead landed on target some 3,400 miles away
on the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, a statement from
the forces said.

The new missile is seen as eventually replacing the aging
RS-18s and RS-20s that are the backbone of the country's
missile forces, the statement said. Those missiles are
known in the West as the SS-19 Stiletto and the SS-18
Satan.

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The RS-24 "strengthens the capability of the attack groups
of the Strategic Missile Forces by surmounting anti-missile
defense systems, at the same time strengthening the
potential for nuclear deterrence," the statement said.

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1. Bush/Cheney have succeeded in restoring the cold war, but at a much

...hotter level :wtf: