Posted on Nov 10, 2015
Putin has said Russia will deploy weapons to defeat the U.S.-led missile threat. How do you see this eventually playing out?
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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.
His statement comes amid a severe strain in Russia's relations with the U.S. and its NATO allies, which have plunged to the lowest point since the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine.
For many years, the Kremlin has protested the U.S.-led missile shield, voicing concern that it could eventually become capable of intercepting Russia's nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, thus eroding the strength of the nation's nuclear deterrent.
Washington, in turn, has argued that the shield was aimed to fend off missile threats from nations such as Iran and North Korea and wouldn't be capable of dealing with the massive Russian nuclear arsenal.
Putin argued Tuesday that the U.S. has kept working on the missile shield despite Iran's deal with six world powers that has curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
"So, references to the Iranian and the North Korean nuclear missile threat just have served to cover up the true plans, and their true task is to neutralize nuclear potential of other nuclear powers, ... Russia in particular," Putin said. "Regrettably, our concerns and cooperation proposals haven't been taken into account."
Putin added that in the future Russia may also work on the development of its own missile defense systems, but will now focus primarily on commissioning new strike weapons.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia aims to spend less on its missile-defense system than the United States has done.
"The Russian president has repeatedly said that we are not going to follow the United States' lead and spend stratospheric amounts on a missile-defense system," he told journalists. "The president has been saying the options we choose are much lower in cost but no less, and maybe even more, efficient."
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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.
His statement comes amid a severe strain in Russia's relations with the U.S. and its NATO allies, which have plunged to the lowest point since the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine.
For many years, the Kremlin has protested the U.S.-led missile shield, voicing concern that it could eventually become capable of intercepting Russia's nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, thus eroding the strength of the nation's nuclear deterrent.
Washington, in turn, has argued that the shield was aimed to fend off missile threats from nations such as Iran and North Korea and wouldn't be capable of dealing with the massive Russian nuclear arsenal.
Putin argued Tuesday that the U.S. has kept working on the missile shield despite Iran's deal with six world powers that has curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
"So, references to the Iranian and the North Korean nuclear missile threat just have served to cover up the true plans, and their true task is to neutralize nuclear potential of other nuclear powers, ... Russia in particular," Putin said. "Regrettably, our concerns and cooperation proposals haven't been taken into account."
Putin added that in the future Russia may also work on the development of its own missile defense systems, but will now focus primarily on commissioning new strike weapons.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia aims to spend less on its missile-defense system than the United States has done.
"The Russian president has repeatedly said that we are not going to follow the United States' lead and spend stratospheric amounts on a missile-defense system," he told journalists. "The president has been saying the options we choose are much lower in cost but no less, and maybe even more, efficient."
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They'll eventually overtake us technologically while we are debating Starbucks cups and the Kardashians....
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MAJ Matthew Arnold
And, while we are putting at the top of the debate issues that only effect a small minority of the citizenship, rather than issues that effect all of the citizens. We are wasting our time on what makes 5% happy or not.
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SN Greg Wright
SFC Michael Hasbun - I was going to respond with something about your character, to pick semantics to comment upon rather than the content of the point...but then I thought? Why bother? He's rude and disrespectful, and therefore easily dismissed.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
Have you ever seen the news? This wasn't sarcasm, just a sad observation on our society.
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SN Greg Wright
Sarcasm would be a best case scenario. We've become a culture that idolizes athletes, but couldn't name a scientist. That will pay huge chunks of our earnings on "kicks" or whatever we are calling high end sneakers these days, but think helping the homeless would be socialism. We have a sub par education system, take pride in it, and refuse to fix it because to acknowledge it's broken would be to detract from our assumed sense of superiority. We fixate on nonsense day to day like those evil anti Christian Starbucks cups because we love fake drama, but couldn't care less about real problems. We elect the same inefficient, corrupt politicians year after year because we treat our political parties like sports teams and can't be bothered to research. We are a nation obsessed with our rights, and negligent on our responsibilities. We've become a nation who are actually considering putting a D list celebrity in the Presidency because he's entertaining and knows precisely what people want to hear.
Sarcasm? I wish that was the case...
Sarcasm would be a best case scenario. We've become a culture that idolizes athletes, but couldn't name a scientist. That will pay huge chunks of our earnings on "kicks" or whatever we are calling high end sneakers these days, but think helping the homeless would be socialism. We have a sub par education system, take pride in it, and refuse to fix it because to acknowledge it's broken would be to detract from our assumed sense of superiority. We fixate on nonsense day to day like those evil anti Christian Starbucks cups because we love fake drama, but couldn't care less about real problems. We elect the same inefficient, corrupt politicians year after year because we treat our political parties like sports teams and can't be bothered to research. We are a nation obsessed with our rights, and negligent on our responsibilities. We've become a nation who are actually considering putting a D list celebrity in the Presidency because he's entertaining and knows precisely what people want to hear.
Sarcasm? I wish that was the case...
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
I see this see this eventually playing out as a standoff in Eastern Europe which will formalize the cold war between east and west until either the Russian economy bottoms out or NATO nations and US economies bottoms out. Most likely the western nations populaces will loose their will and unless a President with the fortitude and vision of Ronald Reagan is in office and he wlil stand up to the Russian bear until that nation collapses under its own internal struggles.
I see this see this eventually playing out as a standoff in Eastern Europe which will formalize the cold war between east and west until either the Russian economy bottoms out or NATO nations and US economies bottoms out. Most likely the western nations populaces will loose their will and unless a President with the fortitude and vision of Ronald Reagan is in office and he wlil stand up to the Russian bear until that nation collapses under its own internal struggles.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
Perhaps China and Russia are seeing our massive debt and internal struggles as a great opportunity to strike an impotent Eagle, a once in a lifetime opening?
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LTC Stephen F.
CPO Andy Carrillo, MS - China has been leading the charge to replace the US dollar with another currency for a number of years.
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Interesting. The world deploys a shield, obviously a defensive measure and Putin announces plans to develop/deploy weapons to defeat the shield. Hmmm looks like the cold war has returned.
Our reliance on technology is IMO the weak link in this and many other systems. Look at the stuxnet virus, how hard would it be to create a similar program that would disable this missile defense system or other C2 systems for that matter?
Our reliance on technology is IMO the weak link in this and many other systems. Look at the stuxnet virus, how hard would it be to create a similar program that would disable this missile defense system or other C2 systems for that matter?
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
Unknown, but I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Russian and Chinese computer programming students "contracted" to create the newest and improved Stuxnet virus...
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