Russia prepared to shoot down N Korea missile: military

Indopia ^ | June 19

[Wyatt's Torch]

What the hell is wrong with the world when you agree with russia’s leader more than your own? First Putin’s Davos speech warning the US against trending toward socialism and now pro missile defense.....the whole world is backwards...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Russians are famous for bluffing with a seven high busted straight, knowing full well that lil Kim’ll never call them. That missile has as much chance of “straying” over Russian Territory as it does of making a soft landing on Phobos.

[kabar]

The Soviets had an anti-missile system ringing Moscow since the 1970s.

The first real and successful ABM hit-to-kill test was conducted by the Soviet PVO forces on March 1, 1961. An experimental V-1000 missile (part of the "A" ABM programme) launched from the Sary-Shagan test range, destroyed a dummy warhead released by a R-12 ballistic missile launched from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome. The dummy warhead was destroyed by the impact of 18 thousand tungsten-carbide spherical impactors 140 seconds after launch, at an altitude of 25 km. The V-1000 missile system was nonetheless considered not reliable enough and abandoned in favor of nuclear-tipped ABMs.

The only other ICBM ABM system to reach production was the Soviet A-35 system. It was initially a single-layer exoatmospheric (outside the atmosphere) design, using the Galosh (SH-01/ABM-1) interceptor. It was deployed at four sites around Moscow in the early 1970s.

Originally intended to be a larger deployment, the system was downsized to the two sites allowed under the 1972 ABM treaty. It was upgraded in the 1980s to a two-layer system, the A-135. The Gorgon (SH-11/ABM-4) long-range missile was designed to handle intercepts outside the atmosphere, and the Gazelle (SH-08/ABM-3) short-range missile endoatmospheric intercepts that eluded Gorgon. ABM-3 was considered to be technologically equivalent to the United States Safeguard system of the 1970s

[freebird5850]

I think Russia is only looking for an excuse to show off some firepower.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Why don’t we do the same? Tell North Korea that if it gets close to the USA we will shoot it down?

[freebird5850]

Barry won’t do that, after all that apologizing he’s done running around the world he’s gotta keep face, ‘ya know.

[Thunder90]

Russia has the S-300, the S-400, and for taking on MIRV’d ICBM’s, a nuclear tipped warhead interceptor system. And that doesn’t include any satellite or laser weaponry the Russians have at their disposal.

[PubliusMM]

Thanks for the reference.