Russia test-fired at least five long-range missiles

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Russia_test-fires_long-range_missiles/articleshow/3587341.cms

12 Oct 2008, 2120 hrs IST,PTI

MOSCOW: Amid increasingly strained ties with the US, Russia has flexed its military muscle by test-firing at least five long-range missiles in a series of high-profile defence exercises over last two days.

President Dmitry Medvedev watched the firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from "Tula" nuclear submarine in Barents Sea in the north of the country, which for the first time hit a designated target in the equatorial Pacific Ocean 11,457 kilometres away.

Summing up the successful strike practice Medvedev declared, "the nuclear shield of Russia is in perfect order."

"Russia will further strengthen its military component. Ofcourse we will induct newer weapons and force-multipliers into the armed forces," Medvedev said congratulating the national Strategic Nuclear Forces on the successful missile firings in the course of 'Stability-2008' wargames.

The tests come amid increasingly strained ties with the US following the Georgian conflict and consistent Russian opposition to Washington's plans for a missile-defence system based in Poland and the Czech Republic, former Soviet satellites now in NATO.



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Russia conducts ballistic missile tests

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MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia test-fired three long-range missiles on Sunday and pronounced its nuclear deterrent strong in a show of force that experts said had not been seen since the days of the Cold War.

Two of the missiles were fired from nuclear submarines in the Asian and European extremes of the sprawling country while a third was watched by President Dmitry Medvedev on land in northwest Russia, news agencies reported.

It was the second Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test in as many days and the latest in a series of high-profile military exercises of conventional land, sea and air forces as well as strategic nuclear units.

[onfiredem]

1. I only wish that everyone would calm down and talk to each other.

[ixion]

2. sadly, tragically, this is the option humans choose least often

in spite of the damage produced by this decision.

Humans: Not too bright, really.