Posted on 02/01/2007 3:37:04 PM PST by xcamel
I don't trust that Putin character any further than I could throw him.
fyi
So now we know Putin's motive.
Alexander Litvinenko, the former spy who was murdered in London, ==
He wasn't even a spy:). Just one former prison warden and bodyguard.
If he was so 'insignifcant', then why was he killed? Hmmmmmmm??==
But WHO killed him? For him he was significant.
They're really to counter threats from Russia. Satisfied?==
That is what Putin told all along. That is why he approved the development the new type on missile which is the nonballistic. ABM is committed against the ballistic missiles. Probably cann't counter same fast missiles which go on the nonballistic trajectory.
So what's a non-ballistic missile? Supersonic cruise missile?
The advantage of a ballistic missile is very high speed; reentry speed. You have very little time to react.
We could shoot down high speed cruise missiles decades ago.
Today, they'd be ducks in a pond for an airborne laser system.
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