Russia tests Topol-M missile to subdue USA's $50-billion air defense

Pravda.ru ^ | November 2, 2005

[gathersnomoss]

Bring it on. Want to try for 2 out of 3?

[Physicist]

Uh, huh. Any bets as to the winner of a lateral acceleration contest between an ICBM and an EKV?

[PureTrouble]

I imagine that if a fighter jet could not maneuver out of the way of one of our patriot missiles, then the Russians may be in for a big surprise with their touting that their missile is harder to hit.

[Ben Mugged]

Unless they can exceed the speed of light, they cannot dodge a High Energy Laser (HRL). Our next generation trumped their next generation.

[groovejedi]

Yes we are worried about Russia, not in the sense that they would use this weapon against us, but that they would sell it to someone who would..

[bmwcyle]

[faloi]

I don't think they've stopped being backrupt yet.

[RightWhale]

If they select after launch that would require active communication even if the trajectories are pre-programmed. Communication in a nuclear broadsides would be iffy. Doubly so if satellite and airborne RFI is on the right bands. But, that is something for strategists to worry about.

[gedeon3]

But, but, this mf russians where broke! But, but, they are our friends!!!! NOT. And all the apologist for Russia in this forum, can kiss my A$$. No apology from me.

[in hoc signo vinces]

50 to 100 KT airbursted over a city is enough to end that city...

600 KT and higher would be for hardened, strategic, targets. A 600 KT warhead airbursted over a city.

The peackeeper missles I believe still pack warheads in the megatonnage range...and ten of them. I think there are a 100 active silos for peacekeepers.

I think the Iranians are working on a fission device...so the yields are much, much, lower than the thermo nukes we have in our arsenal...a ten kiloton nuke (Hiroshima style) nuke...detonated over Washington is still a bad day, but can be recovered from.

The ABM systems is betting that it will be some third world crackpot's poorly built delivery system that sends the fission bomb at us, which our system could handle.

If the Russian go for a nuke fight..again, MAD, it's all over for everyone. And that is never going to happen.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

'Unpredictable trajectory' is about as close to an oxymoron as I can imagine.

[The_Victor]

The unpredictable flight trajectory of the Russian missile makes it immune to destruction

I love the hubris in this statement.

[MeanWestTexan]

Yeah, but they'd sell only 1, 2, 20.

We can deal with that, hard-to-hit or no.

[RightWhale]

A really awesome thing would be to take control of the warheads in flight. Have them all impact at the White Sands testing range. Art Bell could do the running commentary.

[groovejedi]

We could deal with 20 missles each with an unpredictable trajectory, all at once?
Wow! I'm impressed...

[Steely Tom]

So how many kilograms of weapon mass have to be removed to make room for the additional kilograms of reaction mass necessary to effect the course changes?

(steely)

[MeanWestTexan]

Maybe not yet. But sooner than you think.