Russia to counter US missile shield?

Question

Are they serious? They are 10 to 15 years behind our tech.

The insurgency is not a war. We are playing by rules over there. Remove the rules and we could turn iraq into glass.

The migs you are refering to must be the korean or Nam era ones. Yes, they were behind us in tech back then but they had many many more in numbers.

Our modern planes dealt with the iraqi airforce swiftly in the first iraq war. So much so that in the second they didnt even take to the sky. Granted they were iraqi pilots.

yeah, putin is a thug. Once he's gone russia could be as chummie with us as england. Thier people dont hate us.....well they use to not hate us. I dunno now.

Answer 1

Putin has been on track for a confrontation with the West, what with his interesting elections in his country. Gazprom with their natural gas. Limitation of free speech to the point of the state controlling most of the media, and giving a rule that 50% of the news must be positive about Russia.

The missile defense system is of no threat to them whatsoever. The Russian arsenal is massive, I'm assuming it's similar to the US one. Heck, even if they only had 10% of the US arsenal, ten missile interceptors are going to do nothing against them.

This is a political excuse for Putin to confront the West. Why, I don't know.

Answer 2

They have some effective counters. They have very fast burn rockets, decoys and no doubt other measures. The defense isn't much of a defense against Russia. They are close enough to deliver nukes by other means. Russia just wants to keep its neighbors as cowering as possible. It also hurts their arms sales when the US does something so impressive technologically. It is mostly aimed at scaring the left leaning doves that are useful in making any progress more difficult.

Answer 3

The only technology that they have to attempt to thwart our Missile Defense System is what are called "Decoys". These Decoys are used to thwart an interceptor missile. However, our newest technology is able to distinguish decoys from the warhead. There are several different variations and equipment to act as fences against missile threats. There are airborne, ground based, and naval based lasers in production that can hit an object as small as a mortar round. The long range missile defense system can hit targets using kinetic force from thousands of miles away, and have about a 50/50 shot of intercepting incoming missiles last time I checked. We only have a limited number of these systems at present time, while the Russians still have thousands of ICBM's.

Answer 4

A 'missle shield' is a tenuous proposition, even against 1970s ICBM technology, so, yes, they may well be serious. The Soviets had a great track record when it came to bluffing the US into believing they had technology and military capability they didn't really have, too, so they may be thinking they can get away with that again (and they're probably right). Also, if you think they're that far behind us, you underestimate thier ability to steal our technological secrets - they've been doing that since the Manhattan Project.

Answer 5

Russia has over a thousand ICBMs.

We are putting 10 interceptors in a location poorly located to intercept those ICBMs.

The issue is not the interceptors. The big issue is that having a US military base there makes those countries more independent of Russian influence.

Answer 6

Russia is in simple terms apprehensive correct to the oil pipeline to furnish their skill needs, and additionally they're assisting Iran with what they want that's nuclear skill. we are afraid of Iran having nuclear missile skill, yet constantly bear in ideas Russia will constantly be Russia. they have a distinctive "plan" for the international. in all probability the utopian communist international government ruled via a resurgent u.s.. optimistically not, yet they have been insistent on "forcing" others to do because of fact the Russians desire. surely, Russia might starve you and your baby to pad the wallet of its leaders. to totally answer your question, Obama needs international peace, yet he's naive if he thinks a international with quite some languages, religions, and ideas can ever acheive that, so I say we actually want the missile shelter. are you able to think of Russia or Iran launching nukes at Europe or maybe us? it form of feels particularly conceivable to me so we want that protection shelter. it is not our fault Russia has a prior background of totalitarian expansionist rule.

Answer 7

How many years behind us in technology are the insurgents? And after 4 years they keep on going. Technology isn't the sole factor in war. Tactics play a big part too. Russian Migs were low-tech compared to our fighters, but they sure tore us to pieces quite a few times in dogfights.

Answer 8

You have to be sober to counter the US missile defense. There hasn't been a sober Russian since 1988.

Answer 9

they have to do something, this is an ecalation against them. You're nuetralizing thier defenses so you can invade Iran. Maybe they've always been protecting these countries against you. You are just very sneaky, however the light does shine through sometimes. You have to let go of your superiority complex.

Answer 10

Now we will have to build a counter counter missile shield.