WHICH COUNTRIES ARE TARGETED WITH ISRAEL’S JERICHO III AND DOLPHIN NUCLEAR MISSILE SUBS America, and maybe Israel as well, are pursuing a nuclear compellence stategy against Russia with the construction of the European missile shield. Deterrence is a defensive strategy, but compellence is an offensive strategy, whereby America compels Russia to acquiesce to American wishes. [...]
Tag: intercontinental ballistic missile
December 3, 2011
October 28, 2011
Main news of October 28
WORLD * The judgment in the case of alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter is expected at the end of next month, Justice John Mitting, who chairs the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, said in London RUSSIA * Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, needs to analyze bills and work out the most effective proposals [...]
October 28, 2011
Topol ballistic missiles may stay in service until 2019
The service life of Topol mobile ballistic missile systems could be extended until 2019, Commander of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) Lt. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said on Friday. “The road-mobile Topol missile systems may remain in service with the SMF until 2019,” Karakayev said at a meeting with SMF veterans. “The evaluation of its [...]
October 28, 2011
Russian submarine test-fires Bulava missile successfully
Bulava missile: test-launch history The Russian Navy successfully test-fired an experimental Bulava (SS-N-X-30) intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday from its Yury Dolgoruky submarine in the White Sea, the Defense Ministry said. “Today as part of the state trials program, a successful routine test took place of a Bulava ICBM from the Yury Dolgoruky submarine,” the [...]
September 29, 2011
Russia tests new ballistic missile
Russia carried out on Thursday a successful test of a new sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the Defense Ministry said. The Liner missile was launched from the Tula (Delta IV class) strategic submarine in the Barents Sea targeting the Kura test grounds on the Kamchatka peninsula. “The missile’s warheads hit the designated area on schedule,” spokesman [...]