russia to deploy MIRV capable ICBM in 2010

[Moscow]

Moscow News - Comment - Russia modernizes missiles
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's efforts to upgrade its missile arsenals will help counter the planned U.S. missile defense sites in Europe, a top general said Wednesday.

Russia's Strategic Missile Force chief, Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, said the military will commission a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile and modify the existing missiles.

Solovtsov said that the new RS-24 missile equipped with multiple nuclear warheads will enter service next year.

 

[nightcrawler]

Not perhaps a tactical wepaon system will do the required job instead of getting strategic missiles involve which invokes retaliation. The system which best fits russian assets is due to be deployed see image for more details

 

[Moscow]

the deployment of iskander in kalingrad is halted for time being.

 

[Beskar]

I think that the American defence shield can counter a Single ICBM but a MIRV capability will definitely give America something to worry about. BUT I'm not too sure how practical these would be. There's a "Counter Measure" for everything these days. You basically need Amphibious battalion of immortal Godzilla's now to destroy your enemy.

 

[Moscow]

Amphibious battalion of immortal Godzilla's now to destroy your enemy.

funny very funny sir lol

 

[nightcrawler]

the deployment of iskander in kalingrad is halted for time being.

Can you plz provide the link. It seems quiet a naïve idea that ICBMs be put into service by Russians to counter relatively fragile Czech Republic anti-ballistic shield. What do I suppose that with the coming of Obama very extreme measures against USA & Russia will not occur for the time being as both the leaders had already expressed more rational & flexible thinking towards eachother.

 

[usman_1112]

MIRV (Multiple Independent targetable Reentry Vehicle) is a collection of many nuclear warheads carried on a single missile with the ability to independently strike each targets over a broad area. This reduces the number of missiles needed to hit many targets, increases the area of destruction and reduces the effectiveness of ABM defence systems all of which make a MIRV attack deadly.
Even if the new Alaska-California system of ABM interceptors eventually works as planned to prevent individual or small numbers of ICBM launches by so-called "rogue" nations like North Korea or Iran, it was never designed to protect the United States against any attack by Russia's still huge Strategic Rocket Forces, with their 2,500 nuclear weapons - more than 10 times as many as are needed to obliterate every city in the northern hemisphere or every U.S. town and city with a population greater than 50,000.

Neither the West Coast-Alaska ABM system nor any of the visionary "Star Wars" type programs currently being developed at astronomical cost by the Air Force and, to a far lesser extent, by the Army, show any possibility of defending America against the Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle, or MIRV, capabilities of the Strategic Rocket Forces.

So far Russia, apart from the United States, is the only other country in the world with a MIRV capability. And China, despite all its astonishing industrial and technological progress, is still believed to be decades away from developing a MIRV capability of its own.

Up to now, Russia has jealously guarded its MIRV technology and refused to sell or share it with China. But there is no doubt that Russian-Chinese strategic cooperation is developing rapidly. And no one truly knows how far it will ultimately go.

 

[zraver]

MIRV (Multiple Independent targetable Reentry Vehicle) is a collection of many nuclear warheads carried on a single missile with the ability to independently strike each targets over a broad area. This reduces the number of missiles needed to hit many targets, increases the area of destruction and reduces the effectiveness of ABM defence systems all of which make a MIRV attack deadly.
Even if the new Alaska-California system of ABM interceptors eventually works as planned to prevent individual or small numbers of ICBM launches by so-called "rogue" nations like North Korea or Iran, it was never designed to protect the United States against any attack by Russia's still huge Strategic Rocket Forces, with their 2,500 nuclear weapons - more than 10 times as many as are needed to obliterate every city in the northern hemisphere or every U.S. town and city with a population greater than 50,000.

Neither the West Coast-Alaska ABM system nor any of the visionary "Star Wars" type programs currently being developed at astronomical cost by the Air Force and, to a far lesser extent, by the Army, show any possibility of defending America against the Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle, or MIRV, capabilities of the Strategic Rocket Forces.

So far Russia, apart from the United States, is the only other country in the world with a MIRV capability. And China, despite all its astonishing industrial and technological progress, is still believed to be decades away from developing a MIRV capability of its own.

Up to now, Russia has jealously guarded its MIRV technology and refused to sell or share it with China. But there is no doubt that Russian-Chinese strategic cooperation is developing rapidly. And no one truly knows how far it will ultimately go.

The UK's tridents and France's M4 and M51 misisles carry multiple warheads