Russia has test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Russian military officials say.

The launch took place at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia at 1420 (1020 GMT) on Tuesday.

The missile, called RS-24, can be armed with up to 10 warheads and was designed to evade missile defence systems, the Russian defence ministry says.

Russia has complained that US plans to base parts of an anti-missile system in central Europe threaten its security.

The Americans maintain that their system is not directed at the Russians.

The US wants to deploy interceptor rockets in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic to counter what it describes as a potential threat from "rogue states" such as Iran and North Korea.

The Russian test missile successfully struck its target 5,500km (3,400 miles) away on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces said.

The statement said the missile would replace two ageing ICBM systems - the RS-18 and RS-20, known in the West as the SS-19 Stiletto and SS-18 Satan, respectively.



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Russia tested a new missile

Strategic Rocket Forces conducted a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which was declared a missile of a new type, designated RS-24. The launch was conducted at 14:20 MSK from the Plesetsk test site toward the Kura test site in Kamchatka. The missile was launched from a mobile launcher and carried multiple independently targeted warheads.

The missile appears to be a version of the Topol-M missile modified to ensure compliance with the START Treaty. The treaty prohibits increasing the number of warheads on missiles of existing types. No details of the modification are available at the moment.

UPDATE: The grainy TV footage of the launch indicates that the missile indeed looks very much like Topol-M. It is, in fact, possible that the only thing that distinguish RS-24 and Topol-M is the designation. And, of course, the fact that the "new" missile carries multiple warheads. Topol-M appears to be capable of carrying MIRVs without any modifications. The name change may be a cosmetic measure that allows to avoid a direct conflict with the letter of the START Treaty. Of course, other explanations may emerge when (and if) more information is released, but I wouldn't be surprised if R-24 is indeed a MIRVed but not otherwise modified Topol-M.

Ti Rusi se opet k...che.

ПА ако се други курче што не би руси.

Kuva se, bogami biće okršaja.

Ameri bi prodali pola NY za primerak 

RUSI su kraljevi :D:D:D

Ma obicno bacanje para, to nikada nece biti upotrebljeno, ili mozda hoce?

Ivanov upozorava
Ruska raketa probija štit SAD
Autor: CDC/JS | 31.05.2007 - 10:16

Dve rakete koje je Rusija prekjuče testirala u stanju su da probiju svaki sistem protivraketne odbrane, rekao je juče Sergej Ivanov, prvi zamenik premijera Rusije.
Ivanov je istakao da je Rusija isprobala interkontinentalnu balističku raketu s više nezavisno usmerenih bojevih glava i da je isto tako uspešno izvršila preliminarnu probu taktičke krstareće rakete koja ima mnogo veći domet od sličnih projektila.
„Od danas Rusija ima nove taktičke i strateške komplekse koji mogu da savladaju sve postojeće i buduće sisteme protivraketne odbrane“, rekao je Ivanov, aludirajući na sistem koji SAD planiraju da izgrade u Češkoj i Poljskoj. „Dakle, kada je reč o odbrani i bezbednosti, Rusi mogu mirno da gledaju u budućnost.“
I on i Putin su u više navrata izjavili da će Rusija nastaviti da usavršava svoj nuklearni arsenal i da će odgovoriti na američke planove.
Aleksandar Pikajev, ruski stručnjak za kontrolu naoružanja, naglasio je da je nova interkontinentalna raketa po svoj prilici odgovor Rusije SAD i odraz nastojanja da se ojača strateška nuklearna trijada: sistemi transporta nuklearnog oružja sa bazama na kopnu, moru i u vazduhu.
Raketa RS-24 je lansirana sa pokretnog lansera na poligonu Pleseck na severozapadu Rusije. Njena bojeva glava je pogodila cilj udaljen 5.472 kilometra na poluostrvu Kamčatki na Dalekom istoku. Nova raketa će zameniti zastarele projektile RS-18 i RS-20 koje čine okosnicu raketnih snaga zemlje.
Ivanov je takođe objavio uspešnu „preliminarnu probu“ usavršene taktičke krstareće rakete konstruisane za pokretni lanser „iskander-M“. On je još prošle godine rekao da će ruske kopnene snage naručiti 60 „iskandera“ kratkog dometa do 2015.
Ivanov je izjavio da sovjetsko-američki sporazum iz 1987. o ograničavanju takvih raketa - ugovor o nuklearnim snagama srednjeg dometa - nije više na snazi pošto ih na desetine zemalja - „među njima su i zemlje duž granica Rusije“ - danas već poseduje.
„Za nas je to stvarna pretnja, a posledice mogu biti nepredvidive.“

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