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BLUEJACKET said:

Report: Russia May Exit 1987 Arms Treaty

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They hope that the EU will get scared and stop US ABM deployment there. Does the US have the stomach to take on EU/NATO now, when they

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The_Zergling said:

For nearly all intents and purposes, the United States "is" NATO, and as such it seems completely illogical that any sort of armed conflict would arise. NATO was created to counter Warsaw Pact, and after the dissolution it's hard to say what it's ultimate role is. Frankly, while an arms race does nobody any good, it makes strategic sense for Russia to go with quantity should the US continue to pursue the "Star Wars" program.

This is because a vital aspect of stability in MAD is that you purposely leave targets vulnerable to counter-attack so as to make sure your opponent doesn't feel so intimidated or threatened that they decide it's in their best interests to strike first. The ABT if operational would wreck this balance completely.

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MaxTesla said:

Actually warsaw pact was created to counter Nato, Nato was created BEFORE warsaw pact

Warsaw pact was created on the 1 of may 1955

Nato was created 4th april 1949

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BLUEJACKET said:

Yes, I agree!
I meant not armed conflict, just diplomatic squabling with NATO/EU.
If the US felt the ABM treaty no longer served their interests, than noone can blame Russia for exiting 1987 Arms Treaty! They could just have those IRBMs/CMs conventionaly armed to knock out BMD radars/silos/C3 in a real crises to blind the NMD. So the E.Europeans will now have to think hard before making their decision to host those BMD components. As the

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show, modernization isn't easy

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, and Russia will not allow anyone to feel overhelmingly superior to itself- and I know their mentality!

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Russian reporter dies in fall
Some media suspect foul play in military correspondent's fatal plunge
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:32 a.m. MT March 5, 2007
MOSCOW - A military correspondent for Russia’s top business daily has died after falling out of a window, and some media alleged Monday that he might have been killed for his critical reporting.

Ivan Safronov, the military affairs writer for Kommersant, died Friday after falling from a fifth-story window in the stairwell of his apartment building in Moscow, officials said. His body was found by neighbors shortly after the fall.

With prosecutors investigating the death, Kommersant and some other media suggested foul play.

“The suicide theory has become dominant in the investigation, but all those who knew Ivan Safronov categorically reject it,” Kommersant said in an article Monday.

Safronov’s colleagues and relatives have described him as a strong, cheerful person who would be extremely unlikely to kill himself.

The Moscow city prosecutor’s office did not respond to repeated calls for comment about the investigation into his death, and neighborhood prosecutors could not immediately be reached.

Source: Investigators discount murder
In a report that may have been aimed to quash speculation of foul play, the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted an unidentified law enforcement source as saying investigators had “not even any minimal information” pointing to the possibility of murder.

Safronov, who had served as a colonel in the Russian Space Forces before joining Kommersant in 1997, frequently angered the authorities with his critical reporting. He was repeatedly questioned by the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor, which suspected him of divulging state secrets.

No charges were filed because Safronov was able to prove his reports were based on open sources, Kommersant said.
Journalist reported IBM launch failure
In December, Safronov angered the authorities when he was the first to report the third consecutive launch failure of the new Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, which President Vladimir Putin hailed as a basis of the nation’s nuclear might for years to come. The authorities never acknowledged the launch failure.
“For some reason, it is those journalists who are disliked by the authorities who die in this country,” the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets said Monday. “Ivan Safronov was one of those. He knew a lot about the real situation in the army and the defense industries and he reported it.”

Russia is among the most dangerous countries for journalists, plagued by attacks on reporters who seek to expose official corruption and other abuses. The problem was highlighted by the October killing of Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative reporter and a harsh critic of human rights abuses in Chechnya.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in January that 13 Russian journalists have been murdered in contract-style killings since 2006, making Russia the third-deadliest country for journalists after Iraq and Algeria in the past 15 years.

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Construction of First Fifth Generation Fighter Begins

The Novosibirsk Chkalov Aviation Production Association (NAPO) has begun construction of the fifth generation multirole fighter. This work is being performed at Komsomol’sk-on-Amur together with the aircraft plant at Komsomol’sk-on-Amur, the enterprise’s general director, Fedor Zhdanov, reported today during a visit to NAPO by Novosibirsk Oblast’ governor Viktor Tolokonskiy.

“Final assembly will take place at Komsomol’sk-on-Amur, and we will be carrying out assembly of the fore body of this airplane,” Zhdanov specified. The fifth generation fighter which will replace the MiG-29 and Su-27 airplanes of the previous generation, was developed by the Sukhoy design bureau.

NAPO Chkalov also has been realizing series construction of the newest Su-34 multirole bomber since last year. According to the governor, the oblast’s government will adopt a complex of measures for supplemental governmental support to NAPO in the very near future. As of today, the most severe problem at the enterprise is personnel. In the ‘90s, many highly qualified workers were let go under the conditions of a slump and now time is needed for training new ones. “Our assistance will be in the resolution of personnel questions, and also in the provision of lodging for the enterprise’s specialists,” Tolokonskiy said in this connection.

NAPO Chkalov is one of the country’s largest airplane building enterprises and is included in the Sukhoy Holding Company, ITAR-TASS notes.

Source: 06.03.07, Izvestiya.RU

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Russia Will Be Able To Evade US ABM System
By Andrei Kislyakov, RIA Novosti

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Mar 19, 2007

Russia's Sukhoi starts construction of fifth generation aircraft
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RUSSIA WORKS TO DEFEAT AMERICAN DEFENSES
An increasingly assertive Russian military, publicly irritated by U.S. missile defense plans, has announced that it has reached the “threshold of designing hypersonic missile with changeable directories.” The country’s top military brass has been hinting at an “experimental craft” that can “evade [BMD] systems” and “pierce existing and future [BMD] belts.” The key to the new weapon, according to sources in the Russian Defense Ministry, lies in its ability to conduct “evasive maneuvering” at speeds greater than Mach six, reports Defense and Security (March 21). Other Russian defense experts, however, are not convinced. Emphasizing the project’s “experimental” nature, one Russian specialist has insisted than any claims by the Kremlin to currently possess such weapons should be viewed as “an exaggeration.”
Missile Defense Briefing Report No. 219, March 22, 2007

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Russians Reveal Plot That Killed Basayev

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In the Front Line of Putin's Secret War

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Strategic submarine of new generation to be finished soon in Russia

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From radio telescopes to electromagnetic weapons

21:42 | 11/ 05/ 2007
MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) - A group of Russian scientists from Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow have developed a series of unique compact generators capable of producing high-energy pulses of hundreds and even thousands of megawatts.

This compares with the capacity of a major Soviet hydropower station on the Dnieper or an energy unit at a modern nuclear power plant. The new generators are sources of electromagnetic radiation rather than electricity. Their main feature is a capacity to produce enormous power in a matter of nanoseconds. The impulses can be generated with a very high frequency.

Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Gennady Mesyats recalled that the first high-current electron accelerators were developed in the U.S.S.R. in the 1960s. Ten years later, Soviet scientists learnt to generate powerful microwave nanosecond pulses. The current generators have no counterparts in the world. In effect, Russian scientists have made a breakthrough in what is called relativist high-precision electronics.

The pulse is primarily of interest for fundamental research. Reporting these results to the RAS Presidium at the beginning of this year, scientists emphasized that sources with super radiation effects can be broadly used in long-range high-resolution impulse-based radiolocation and in studies of non-thermal impact of powerful electromagnetic fields on radio electronic components and different biological species.

Super-powerful pulse generators can test the reliability of radio electronic devices and the immunity of energy facilities to different impacts. They can imitate the interference caused by a lightning and even by a nuclear blast. Their tiny size and unique physical properties make their sphere of application extremely wide.

The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a product of a nuclear explosion. It puts out of action even those electronic control systems that have withstood the shockwave and reduces expensive smart weapons to scrap metal. There are different ways of generating electromagnetic pulses - for example, it can be produced by explosion-induced pressure on a magnetic field.

Physicist Andrei Sakharov was the first to propose using this principle in a bomb in the 1950s. Today, records in the size of an induced magnetic field, maximum current and properties of such "radiators" belong to Russian scientists. They surpass foreign counterparts by 10 times. Depending on what facilities the EMP is directed at, the damage radius can be from several hundred meters to kilometers. Without creating a shock wave and inflicting visible damage, it destroys all enemy electronic equipment. Moreover, unlike electronic countermeasures, electromagnetic weapons are capable of damaging radio electronic components even if they are switched off.

At present, the infrastructure and troops of many countries are stuffed with electronic equipment. It will be the main target for electromagnetic weapons. The destructive effect is produced by the high acceleration of the magnetic and electrical components of the EMP. They induce voltage changes ranging from 100 volts to 10,000 volts in circuit networks and terminals of radio electronic equipment. The ensuing massive sparking of cable jackets, their contact to frame and the ground, and breakdowns in connectors put the equipment out of action and lead to fires and explosions. To understand this effect better, it is enough to imagine what will happen to your TV-set if there is a power surge - it will simply melt.

The Americans were the first to use such weapons in combat, for instance in Yugoslavia. Some analysts believe that electromagnetic bombs would have given the United States a vital advantage in the early stages of the war in Iraq. They could have disabled not only Baghdad's control and communications systems, but also electronic components of missiles, even those located in deep bunkers. But the U.S. command chose not to use electromagnetic bombs for fear that they might disrupt its own radio electronic equipment in the area.

Today, many countries have electromagnetic weapons. Military experts predict a victory in future wars to those who will be ahead in electromagnetic radiation. In many cases, not only the military-industrial complexes but also different civilian organizations, research institutes and universities conduct studies in this field, thereby increasing the threat of radio electronic terrorism. For example, a broadband high-energy and compact wave source is sold without any restrictions. In several fractions of a second, it can burn down all electronic equipment at an electric power station, substation or control tower.

A short intensive pulse can instantly paralyze data bases, financial centers and industrial equipment.

Yuri Zaitsev is an academic adviser at the Academy of Engineering Sciences.

The opinions expressed in this article are the author's and do not necessarily represent those of RIA Novosti.

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