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Russia Reports Successful Anti-Star Wars Weapon

Kansas City Star:

Russia is developing a new generation of warheads that can elude any kind of missile defense, though a Russian general stressed Thursday that the technology was not aimed at thwarting U.S. deployment of a new missile defense system.

Missiles equipped with the new warheads would be able to evade sophisticated defense systems by changing trajectory to avoid the range of interceptor missiles, said Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, first deputy chief of the Russian armed forces' General Staff.

A prototype was tested during military exercises this week, Russia's biggest since the Soviet era. Baluyevsky said the warhead technology would be ready for deployment no later than 2010.

Baluyevsky's remarks shed light on cryptic comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday, after he observed a second day of exercises aimed at testing Russia's strategic missile capabilities. Submarine-launched missile failures Tuesday and Wednesday marred the exercises.
Putin mentioned Russia's development of new strategic weapon technology, but he did not say what that technology was, in what way it was advanced or when it might be deployed.

Posted by Bob King at February 20, 2004 04:23 PM | TrackBack
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