Back to the future: new US-Russia arms race

[My Higher Self]

A quick excerpt from the article found here:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0616/p01s04-woeu.htm

"No country in the world as yet has such arms," Putin declared of the new weapon, which amounts to a space cruise missile. It will be "capable of hitting targets continents away with hypersonic speed, high precision, and the ability of wide maneuver."

However, Putin's new "secret" weapon can ride atop the relatively new, three-stage SS-27 missile, known as the Topol-M. Experts say the weapon is a maneuverable warhead that can dart unpredictably at high speeds as it reenters the atmosphere, making it virtually impossible to target at that stage. It is essentially a space cruise missile, born from Soviet efforts to penetrate Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile shield, which was never built.

YIKES!!

 

[Starscream]

Well, Bush can't replicate Ronnie's success of bringing the cold war to an end without a new cold war, can he?

 

[Aduro Amnis]

When will we ever admit Communism is better than us?

 

[Kelly]

One step forward, two steps back. Sigh...

Well, if we were really working on a missile defense system, it was really only a matter of time before someone defeated it (even if it was just a ruse).

 

[Biggles7268]

I'll wait to see if it works first, I read an article on a Russian news site saying they were 1 year away from a manned mission to Mars. And I seriously doubt that was accurate.

They cut to many corners to keep the costs down.

 

[the Colonel]

The key to a missile defense system has been and continues to be to hit the warhead while it is still attached to the rocket and in the boost stage. Ballistic missiles already ride the tops of the atmosphere. This isn't really new stuff, just a little more trickerie on the old stuff. It just makes it that much more essential to destroy the missile before it separates from booster.