[TigerLikesRooster]

Somewhere inside Kremlin, I suspect somebody made a dart board painted with the map of Czech Republic, and is throwing darts everyday, cursing.:-)

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

The only real concern for Russia is that the interceptor site has interceptors in it. They can do the (sub) orbital geometry calculations just as well as us. They know that if they launched ICBMs from Russia over the pole at us, interceptors fired from Europe would be in a tail-chase and ineffective. (never mind the overwhelming numerical advantage)

Their real, and valid IMHO, concern is that what gets loaded into those silos are in fact simple kinetic energy interceptors. What they absolutely do not want is a US IRBM sitting on their doorstep. Something that could do a depressed trajectory shot and be in Moscow in just a few minutes with a multi-megaton surprise. Once all the political posturing is put aside, I think some simple inspections and verifications on-site by Russian personnel will solve this one.

As for the Czechs wanting some industrial return... This isn't exactly a high-volume business with a big market to go after. I'm not sure how much work could be outsourced to them.