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Russia Says United States Has Ulterior Motive in Shooting Down Satellite
Russia is UPSET that the United States wishes to shoot down a failed satellite with missile defense agency SM-3 missiles. Flap supposes Russia and China received the message.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday a U.S. plan to shoot down an ailing spy satellite could be used as a cover to test a new space weapon.
The ministry said there was insufficient proof that Washington’s decision to fire a missile at the disabled satellite was to prevent a potentially deadly leak of toxic gas as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.
What a shame.
Russia and China would rather have America negotiate an unenforceable “NO SPACE WEAPONS” treaty so that OUR research would be curtailed while they attempt to steal OUR technology to develop their own anti-satellite systems.
By the way, Flap is positive that the United States does possess other space weapons, including high energy generated lasers – remember those?
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Missile Defense Watch: Failed Satellite – A Message to China
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Narrative on the first successful intercept of a medium range ballistic missiles (MRBM) by an allied Navy ship. The JS Kongo (DDG-173) successfully detected, tracked and engaged the “separating” target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) with the Aegis BMD weapon system, firing the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Blk IA missile for a successful intercepts outside the earth’s atmosphere. JFTM-1 was the first time that a Japanese ship was designated to launch the interceptor missile, a major milestone in the growing cooperation
between Japan and the U.S.Remember when China used a ballistic missile to shoot down a satellite in space?
And, remember in the summer of 2006 when China was firing lasers to interfere with United States satellites?Now, the United States is using the destruction of a “failing” United States satellite to send China an overt message – Stay away from American space-based defenses.
The Pentagon’s plan to shoot down a failed satellite with a missile defense interceptor in the coming days is aimed at preventing toxic fuel from reaching earth. But U.S. officials and experts said yesterday it would also signal that U.S. missile defenses can be used to counter China’s strategic anti-satellite weapons.
China is an adversary and has already militarized space.
The United States is saying that there exist counter-measures already in place to China’s ASAT capability. Is this a Cold War type strategy move?
You bet and while Russia and China debate/negotiate demilitarizing space, America and its technology are already there.
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United States Speeding Up Missile Defense Plans – Russia
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Russia accuses the United States that it is accelerating missile defense deployment in Central Europe despite Moscow’s request that such deployment be frozen.And, the United States should wait for Russia’s permission, why?
President Bush, deploy the system, sell the THADD system to Israel and deploy it in Iraq. Russia is stalling with its military business partner, Iran.
Stay tuned…….
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Missile Defense Watch: Putin Continues to Say NYET to Eastern Europe Missile Defense
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, right, smile as Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with an unidentified member of US delegation, unseen, at the presidential residence of Novo-Ogaryovo near Moscow, Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. In a tense start to talks on a range of thorny issues, President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned U.S. officials to back off a plan to install missile defenses in eastern Europe or risk harming relations with Moscow.
Putin Says Missile Plan Risks Relations
In a tense start to talks on a range of thorny issues, President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned U.S. officials to back off a plan to install missile defenses in eastern Europe or risk harming relations with Moscow.
Addressing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the Russian president appeared to mock the U.S. missile defense plan, which is at the center of a tangle of arms control and diplomatic disputes between the former Cold War adversaries.
“Of course we can sometime in the future decide that some anti-missile defense system should be established somewhere on the moon,” Putin said, according to an English translation. “But before we reach such arrangements we will lose the opportunity for fixing some particular arrangements between us.”
Putin also said Russia might feel compelled to pull out of a 20-year-old arms control deal unless it is expanded.
Oh well.
Russia will have to do what it wants to do and the United States and its allies have to protect themselves. This includes protection from the totalitarian Putin as well as Iran.
There will be more negotiation but Russia is not in a position to be dictating anything.
By the way, United States Missile Defense is operational.
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Missile Defense Watch: US Proposes Joint Missile Defense with Russia
US proposes common missile defense network with Russia, NATO
The United States on Friday proposed a common network of missile defense systems with Russia and NATO to allay Moscow’s concerns over a planned US missile defence system in central Europe.
“The answer is we and the Russians and NATO or the NATO-Russia Council work together to produce a common system or common network of systems which would benefit everyone’s security and also address Russian security concerns,” Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said.
“If they are part of the system, they can be much more confident that it is not directed against them,” he said, speaking ahead of talks next week between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates with their opposite numbers in Moscow on October 12.
They will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Secretary Anatoly Serdyukov in the wake of stalled negotiations earlier this month between the two sides in Paris on America’s planned missile defense system.
The proposed system in central Europe is a source of long-running friction between the two former Cold War enemies.
Washington claims the system would protect against “rogue states” such as Iran and wants to build a radar tracking base in the Czech Republic and house interceptor missiles in Poland.
And this was the original plan with the Strategic Defense Initiative under President Ronald Reagan.
Develop the system, make it operational and then include the Soviets/Russians.
The next phase after joint operations will be to replace MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) by reducing nuclear weapon stockpiles with mutual defense pacts.
Reagan’s ultimate goal was to reduce nuclear weapons to a lower level so that there would be NO chance of a nuclear armageddon.
Let’s see if the new Russia under Putin wishes to play ball.
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Missile Defense Watch: Operational
In this photo provided by Missile Defense Agency, a ground-based missile is shown shortly after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. The missile successfully intercepted a target missile Friday in a test of the nation’s defense system, the Missile Defense Agency said.
Missile defense system is up and running, military says
After a successful test last week, the tracking radars and interceptor rockets of a new American missile defense system can be turned on at any time to respond to an emerging crisis in Asia, senior military officers said Tuesday.
General Victor Renuart Jr., the senior commander for defense of United States territory, said that the antimissile system could guard against the risk of ballistic missile attack from North Korea even while development continues on a series of radars in California and the Pacific Ocean and on interceptor missiles in Alaska and California.
While the new system is limited, it is the most extensive anti-ballistic missile system the Pentagon has fielded since the Safeguard ABM system near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota was briefly operated, starting in 1975. Congress immediately voted to shut it down, and it operated for only a few months.
“We can bring missiles up or take them down as need be so that they can continue doing the testing,” said Renuart, commander of the military’s Northern Command, based in Colorado Springs. But, he added, “I’m fully confident that we have all of the pieces in place that, if the nation needed to, we could respond.”
Here is the video of the September 28th test from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California:
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Although there appears to be minimal operational status at this time it is still noteworthy milestone in the history of the Missile Defense Agency.
So, what is next?
The Pentagon will incorporate counter-measures in its next major missile defense test for the first time in years after a successful intercept last week, the general who heads the program said Tuesday.
Critics of the system have long contended the interceptor’s so-called “kill vehicle” could easily be spoofed with simple counter-measures such as decoy balloons, because of the difficulty of distinguishing a warhead from other objects in space.
But Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering showed reporters a video of the view from the kill vehicle in Friday’s test in which it is seen sorting through a variety of objects before zeroing in on the mock warhead.
The other objects included the missile’s re-entry vehicle as well as other as yet unidentified debris, said Obering, who heads the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency.
“We did not have countermeasures on this flight,” he said, but based on the system’s performance in the test, “we will be put them on the next flight.”
The next test could be as early as February or March, or as late as May, a spokesman for the agency said.
And, deployment in Europe to protect United States and its Allies from Iran missile attack.
A successful U.S. missile defense test last Friday should quieten doubts about the system’s viability and bolster support for U.S. plans to deploy interceptor missiles and a powerful tracking radar in Europe, a top Pentagon official said on Tuesday.
“I think it helps in a very real way,” Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Henry Obering told reporters. He said European and NATO allies often questioned him about the unproven nature of U.S. missile defenses.
“This goes a long way to answering that question,” he said. “We’re making great steady progress in terms of showing that this system does work, and this is a major step forward.”
Washington wants to install 10 ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a tracking radar station in the Czech Republic to defend against a potential Iranian missile attack. It says Iran may develop missiles able to reach the United States by 2015.
Even if work began next year, the European sites would not be operational until 2011 or 2012, Obering said, underscoring the need to start soon.
Thanks to President Ronald Reagan and his early SDI staff America is safer today. And, no thanks to Senators Carl Levin, Joe Biden, Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry.
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Missile Defense Watch: Vandenberg AFB Ground-Based Interceptor Missile Test is Successful
A U.S. interceptor missile on Friday shot down a dummy warhead replicating an incoming North Korean missile in the seventh successful test of Boeing Co’s long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said.
The Missile Defense Agency said in a statement it completed a test “involving a successful intercept by a ground-based interceptor missile designed to protect the United States against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack.”
The interceptor missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast, and its target was fired from Alaska’s Kodiak Island.
“We got it,” said test witness Riki Ellison, president of the private Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a group funded in part by missile shield contractors. “It was a success.”
Now, what excuse will the Democrats have in Congress to reduce funding for National Missile Defense?
Opps Flap spoke too soon. No test is good enough for the NAYSAYER Democrats:
“Once again, there were no countermeasures or decoys used, making this test one of the simplest, easiest, flight intercept tests they’ve ever tried,” Philip Coyle, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester under former President Bill Clinton, said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.
Stay tuned……
Missile Defense Agency interceptor emplaced at VandenbergThe Missile Defense Agency emplaces an interceptor missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base May 2.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks with the media after a meeting with the Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, not shown, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday June 15, 2007. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ assertion that the Bush administration will not replace its plan for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe with Russia’s counterproposal for a radar site in Azerbaijan was met with silence from the Russians Friday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Bush administration is not willing to replace its plan for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe with Russia’s counterproposal for a radar site in Azerbaijan.
And NATO is drawing up plans for an additional short range missile defense plan for Southern Europe:
Meanwhile, NATO ordered its military experts to draw up plans for a possible short-range missile defense system to protect nations on the alliance’s southern flank that would be left exposed by proposed U.S. anti-missile units in central Europe.
According to U.S. and NATO officials, the addition of the European bases to anti-missile installations in North America would protect most of Europe from the threat of long-range attack from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East. But it would leave Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and parts of Romania exposed.
To fill that gap, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said NATO experts would produce a report by February on short-range anti-missile defenses “that can be bolted on to the overall missile defense system as it would be installed by the United States.”
Now, will Putin cancel his meeting with President Bush in July?
Stay tuned……
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, shakes hands with Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday June 15, 2007.
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Moscow could aim nuclear weapons at targets in Europe as part of “retaliatory steps” if Washington proceeds with building a missile defense system on the continent, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.
Speaking to foreign reporters days before he travels to Germany for the annual summit with President Bush and the other Group of Eight leaders, Putin assailed the White House plan to place a radar system in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in neighboring Poland. Washington says the system is needed to counter a potential threat from Iran.
In an interview released Monday, Putin suggested that Russia may respond to the threat by aiming its nuclear weapons at Europe.
“If a part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States appears in Europe and, in the opinion of our military specialists, will threaten us, then we will have to take appropriate steps in response. What kind of steps? We will have to have new targets in Europe,” Putin said, according to a transcript released by the Kremlin. These could be targeted with “ballistic or cruise missiles or maybe a completely new system” he said.
On Monday, Iran’s top security official called the U.S. plans for the missile defense shield a “joke,” saying Tehran’s missiles do not have the capability to reach Europe.
“Claims by U.S. officials that installing a missile defense system in Europe is aimed at confronting Iranian missiles and protecting Europe against Iran is the joke of the year,” Ali Larijani told the state-run IRNA news agency.
“The range of Iran’s missiles doesn’t reach Europe at all,” IRNA quoted Larijani as saying in Iran’s first public reaction to the plans. Larijani is secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the country’s top security decision-making body.
Iran is known to possess a medium-range ballistic missile called the Shahab-3 that has a range of at least 800 miles, capable of striking Israel. In 2005, Iranian officials said they had improved the range of the Shahab-3 to 1,200 miles.
The way Russia has been stalling for Iran in the United Nations Security Council, will not support tough sanctions for them to cease uranium enrichment and cutting nuclear and defense deals with Iran is it any surprise that Iran would NOT support its patron?
The fact is the new Shahab-4 and Shahab-6 missiles have the range to threaten Europe. And guess from where the technology for these multi-stage missiles comes?
Why, Russia and North Korea.
Putin speaks with a FORKED TONGUE and Ali Larijani is a LIAR.
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Missile Defense Watch: Bush Talks Tough on Missile Defense
Russian President Vladimir Putin(R) speaks with his US President George W. Bush during a 2006 working session of G8 leaders in Strelna outside St Petersburg. Bush reached out to Russia Friday to soothe concerns over a planned US missile defense program that has cranked tension between the allies and fears of a Cold War-style arms race.
CNN: Bush talks tough on missile defense as summit nears
President Bush defended his plan to build a missile defense system in Russia’s backyard, even though it has sparked fresh tensions in the already frayed Washington-Moscow relationship.
Russia has reacted to the new system by unleashing several rounds of harsh rhetoric against the United States. Bush suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to get over it.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin, an old guard former KGB operative is WRONG and besides beat his gums can do what?
Russia has been uncooperative with curtailing Iran’s nuclear program and nuclear proliferation in general. Russia has been bolstering Iran’s air defense capabilities.
China has been increasing their military, especially their navy.
So, will Russia align with Iran and China to exert hegemony over the Middle East and Asia?
Possibly
The Quotes:
“The Cold War is over,” Bush told reporters in an interview that previewed an eight-day trip to Europe next week. “We’re now into the 21st century, where we need to deal with the true threats, which are threats of radical extremists who will kill to advance an ideology, and the threats of proliferation.”
Watch for more posturing at the G-8 summit beginning this coming Wednesday.
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