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11,000 mph russian nuke?? Can it be true???
 Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:25 am
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From Rense.com
"Russia's SS-27 Makes Bush's
Missile Defense A Fantasy
By Charles Assisi
The Times of India
1-15-6
On November 2, a rather staid little story appeared on a ticker powered by Itar-Tass, a Russian News Agency. The tone was decidedly Russian-matter-of-fact and shorn of all hyperbole. It reported the test launch of a ballistic missile called the Topol RS 12 at 8:10 pm Moscow time. After taking off from the Kapustny Yar test range in the Astrakhan region, it hit the intended target at Balkhash in Kazakhstan at 8:34-24 minutes later.
"The target was precisely hit," said the report, quoting a top-ranking official from the Russian armed forces.
In conclusion, Itar-Tass added some jargon that sounded like regulation copy to most people tracking defence:
"The advanced Topol missile has three cruise engines and can develop hypersonic speed. The high thrust-to-weight ratio allows the warhead to manoeuvre on the trajectory and pass through a dense air defence system."
At that time, not many defence analysts thought much of the report. After all, Kapustny Yar, located on the banks of the Volga river, 75 miles east of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), had gone to the dogs and was infrequently used. Whenever the base was lucky to see some action, all it witnessed was small payloads.
But what the mainstream media missed was analysed in great detail on internet discussion boards. For starters, something about the time mentioned in the report sounded astounding.
For anything to travel from Kapustny to Balkash in 24 minutes, it had to fly at a speed of three miles a second. That's 180 miles a minute or 10,800 miles an hour.
If the reports were indeed true, the Topol RS 12 or the Topol SS 27, as it is known in military circles around the world, had to be the fastest thing man has ever seen. And if you will for a moment excuse the breathlessness, it also represented the pinnacle of modern missile technology. Until this test, the fastest thing known to man was the X43 A. A hypersonic, unmanned plane built by NASA. It flew at 10 times the speed of sound-almost 7,200 miles per hour.
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But the Topol isn't attracting attention for its speed alone. It has got more to do with the sheer viciousness it demonstrates. A conventional intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), once deployed, takes off on the back of a booster. After attaining a certain altitude, it follows a set flight path or trajectory. When it reaches the intended target, it lets loose a set of warheads that home in on the target with devastating accuracy. Given these dynamics, military establishments build defence systems that can intercept an ICBM before it strikes. Often, the defence works.
With the Topol, these dynamics simply don't come into play. To start with, the damn thing can be manoeuvred mid-flight. This makes it practically impossible for any radar system in the world to figure out what trajectory it will follow.
The other thing is the kind of evasion technology built into the missile. That makes it invulnerable to any kind of radiation and electromagnetic and physical interference.
Then there is the question of ground-based nuclear warheads traditionally deployed to stop ICBMs in their path. Until now, any ICBM can be taken down by detonating a nuclear warhead from as far as 10 kilometres. The Topol doesn't blink an eyelid until the time a nuclear warhead gets as close as 500 meters. But given the Topol's remarkable speed and manoeuvrability, getting a warhead that close is practically impossible.
That leaves defence establishments with only two options. Target the missile at its most vulnerable points - either when it is on the ground or when it is just being deployed (also known as the boost phase).
Apparently, the Russians have gotten around that problem, too. Unlike virtually every ICBM that exists on some military base or the other, the Topol doesn't have to be on a static base. All it needs is the back of a truck. And trucks can be driven anywhere, anytime. That makes it practically impossible for any country to monitor how many of these missiles have been deployed and where.
Writes Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer and weapons inspector in the Soviet Union and Iraq in the Christian Science Monitor:
"The Bush administration's dream of a viable NMD has been rendered fantasy by the Russian test of the SS-27 Topol-M.. To counter the SS-27 threat, the US will need to start from scratch."
But when you're done marvelling at the technology, sit back for a moment and consider this. You thought the cold war was over. You thought wrong. Cold War II has just begun. And the world just became a more dangerous place.
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To recap the SS-27 'highlights'...
The Topol SS 27 can be manoeuvred mid-flight. this makes it impossible for radar systems to figure out its flight path.
It is invulnerable to radiation and electromagnetic and physical interference.
It can be mounted on the back of a truck, which makes it difficult to monitor how many of these missiles have been deployed and where.
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Neal
Let's just ignore the great figures this missile is capable off, let's look at the timing of the press release.
We have the West gathering behind The Great Satan to bomb Iran for doing what it has every right under international law to do. Then we have Russia showing off the fastest missile ever made 180 miles a minute or 10,800 miles an hour. This is no accident or misprint. What we have here is a very clear message written in the universal language of "Threat".
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Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:32 am
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10,800 MPH,no problem.SR-71 was capable of 4,000MPH + back 20 years ago.
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| The Russians have drawn the proverbial line in the sand
Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:09 pm
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as they see our premptive caspian grab as an intolerable unilateral grab for the oil fields of strategic importance for the next 100 years.
When it comes down to it we are facing a currency war between oil trades based on dollars versus oil trades based on euros. Being that the dollar is the international currency standard for the moment, any country who dares upset this is going to be challenged militarily to prevent the collapse of the money changers monopoly.
Iran announced that it was going start it's own oil trading system based on euros just as Iraq under Saddam had announced they were debasing from the dollar. Of course trying to explain that to the sheeple was never considered. So when you got a currency that is primarily backed by oil trades versus gold then the entire pyramid is threatened. Look who owns and controls the Fed and you will find the major players who backed 911.
Federal Reserve players knew before hand that 911 was going down and the put options leave an obvious trail.
Questions for the board...
1. Why can't we "find" OBL?
2. Where are the criminals that executed the put options?
3. Why is Larry Silverstein not in prison after admitting they pulled wtc7?
4. Why don't we have the anthrax conspirators in jail?
5. Why are they taking are freedoms in order to make us feel safer?
6. Why is it nobody cares?
When Russia sees a "corporatized america" unleashed and premptively making inroads into their backyard can you blame them for producing a missile that in one stroke makes star wars ineffective and makes every aircraft carrier a sitting duck?
I was watching a "unchristain evangelical" tv show last night and you could see the excitement in their evil eyes as they gleefuly pronounced that the Russians and Chinese were coming together and the coming apocalypse. The were so excited that the return of Jesus Christ was coming soon with one pronouncement and they advocated unrestricted warfare against Iran within the same breath. False prophets run amok these days and I had to turn off the TV in complete utter disgust. |
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