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MEDVEDEV’S AMBITIOUS MILITARY REFORM PLANS

Posted by Matt in November 4th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Military, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Russia has announced its most ambitious, systemic military modernization program since the collapse of the USSR, scheduled to deliver a more efficient and combat-ready military by 2020. These plans betray breathtaking confidence. They will include 955 Borey-type submarines, armed with the Bulava sea-launched ballistic missile; ground-based modernized Topol-M ballistic missiles that will completely replace conventional [...]

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Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as ‘cold war’ escalates

Posted by Matt in August 31st, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Russia is deploying the threat to sell a “game changing” air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new “cold war” with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
US intelligence fears the Kremlin will supply the sophisticated S-300 system to Tehran if Washington pushes through Nato membership for its pro-Western neighbours [...]

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Russia’s Cold War anger over U.S. shield: misjudged?

Posted by Matt in July 10th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Europe, Missiles, Russia, U.S., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Russia’s angry response to an accord between Washington and Prague on building part of a U.S. missile defence shield in the Czech Republic is reminiscent of the rhetoric of the Cold War. Although Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Moscow still wants talks on the missile shield, his Foreign Ministry has threatened a “military-technical” response if [...]

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Russian ABM Plans Part Two

Posted by Matt in May 21st, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Missiles, Russia, , , , , , , ,

Russia’s A-135 Anti-Ballistic Missile system, capable of coping with intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles, was developed and commissioned in 1995 and 1996, respectively. The system hinged on the Don-2N multi-role radar and a command computer inside a truncated tetrahedral pyramid. Silo-based missile interceptors were deploy … more

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India can now fire missiles from under water

Posted by Matt in May 12th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in India, Military, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I’m sure we can count on China passing this technology on to Pakistan. China wants Pakistan to keep India on its toes.
From the article:
With this, India has become capable of launching missiles from air, land, ships and submarines and joins an elite group that includes the US, Russia, France and China.
The performance of the missile [...]

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US risking Cold War: Gorbachev

Posted by Matt in May 8th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in New Cold War, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

LONDON: The US risks starting a new Cold war by proposing to build its missile shield in central and eastern Europe, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned in comments published in London yesterday.
Washington claims the anti-missile system it wants to base in Poland and the Czech Republic is aimed solely at countering the threat from [...]

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The Unthinkable Consequences of an Iran-Israel Nuclear Exchange

Posted by Matt in April 22nd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Israel, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Anthony Cordesman, a strategist at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, has estimated the consequences if Tehran gets the bomb and a nuclear exchange with Israel ensues. He expects, writes Martin Walker of United Press International,
some 16 million to 28 million Iranians dead within 21 days, and between 200,000 and 800,000 Israelis dead [...]

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The Unthinkable Consequences of an Iran-Israel Nuclear Exchange

Posted by Matt in November 26th, 2007 | 1 comment 
Published in Iran, Israel, Nuclear, War, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

November 21, 2007
Anthony Cordesman, a strategist at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, has estimated the consequences if Tehran gets the bomb and a nuclear exchange with Israel ensues. He expects, writes Martin Walker of United Press International,
some 16 million to 28 million Iranians dead within 21 days, and between 200,000 and 800,000 [...]

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