Russia halts Kaliningrad missile deployment

Reuters ^ | Jan 28, 2009

[pobeda1945]

Russia has suspended the deployment of its Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad due to a change in U.S. missile defence policy in Europe, Interfax news agency quoted a military official as saying on Wednesday.

"The implementation of these plans has been halted in connection with the fact that the new U.S. administration is not rushing through plans to deploy" elements of its missile defence shield in eastern Europe, Interfax quoted the unnamed official in the Russian military's general staff as saying.

[DoughtyOne]

On week, and Obama has now given up one missile system for brother Putin.

That didn’t take long.

Obama is certainly intent on cutting waste. /s

[MissouriConservative]

Putin knows that Zero is his b*tch.

[DemforBush]

from FAS.org

“The road-mobile SS-X-26 is the second attempt to replace the `Scud’, since the first attempt, the Oka SS-23 SPIDER, was eliminated under the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The operational requirements for the SS-26 are probably similar to those of the original SS-23. One of the major questions concerning the program is the missile’s range, which is almost certainly less than the 500 km range limit established by the INF Treaty. The SS-26 may include a longer range (greater than 400 km) variant for the Russian forces, and a shorter range (less than 300 km) variant for export. “

DIA Code Name SS-26
Nato Code Name: ?
Russian Designation: Iskander
Design Bureau: KBM Engineering
Inservice: 1999
Range: 300 Km
Stages: 1
Warhead: 480Kg - unitary or 10 Submutitions
Weight: 3,800 Kg
Fuel: Solid
Guidance: GPS/GLONASS/Inertial/ Possibly IR Terminal Homing

[AlaskaErik]

So the Russians say. My guess this is just a propaganda move to “help” B Hussein with his image. But in reality the project will go on, just in secret, as was the case during the Cold War.