Russian Experts: US Missile Shield Can Be Easily BrokenEven primitive missile technologies would be enough for neutralizing the most up-to-date US global Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) system, Tass cited experts from the Russian Academy of Military Sciences as saying Wednesday.Such methods include the camouflage of launches and the creation of groups of dummy missiles, along with their mock launches, said these anonymous "outstanding missile experts." "Those non-traditional methods do not require big financial and material resources, but their effectiveness in neutralizing the ABM system may be very high," they emphasized. "Taking into consideration the conceptual characteristic features of the U.S. ABM system, whose key task is to destroy intercontinental ballistic missile before the moment, when the nuclear warhead of the missile is divided into several parts, there are other ways of neutralizing both separate elements of the system and the whole of the ABM system. For instance, we can use carriers of air-based laser weapons for penetrating the National Missile Defense (NMD) umbrella," the experts specified. Russia possesses the facilities needed for neutralizing the ABM system. The problem is that if the United States starts the militarization of outer space, other countries will be forced to take measures, not only passive but also active ones, to defend themselves, they predicted. In the end, the consequences of that process may be most disastrous, and they have not been analyzed well so far. The price of the imaginary 'global security' offered by the United States as a substitute for the 1972 ABM Treaty, may become fatal for the whole of our civilization," the Russian military experts warned. US NMD to Use Space WeaponsRussian security experts said Wednesday that the US missile defense concept presupposes the use of modern space-based weapons."The Pentagon does not hide the fact that the deployment of the missile defense system will use modern£¬ the so-called breakthrough,technologies and weapons based on new physical principles, "Itar-Tass news agency quoted "top security experts" as saying, adding that such systems can be deployed only in outer space. "New systems will have to meet tight requirements in terms of detecting and destroying targets literally at the speed of light. This is explained by the conceptual principle of the US national missile defense (NMD) system to destroy missiles during the short period of acceleration," the experts said. To this end, various laser systems have been designed (including with nuclear induction), beam and microwave weapons £¬electromagnetic guns. The deployment of all these "exotic" weapons in outer space is prevented by the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and is considered by the US leaders as a relic of the Cold War," they stressed. |
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