... a new treaty, given the massive disagreements over the missile defense systems (after the United States pulled out from the ABM Treaty in 2002) and over long-range precision-guided conventional weapons. Meanwhile the new U.S. administration has not demonstrated ... ... warfare. In addition, the new arms race will become multilateral and involve (in addition to Russia and the United States) China, NATO member states, India and Pakistan, North Korea and South Korea, Japan and other nations. Russia’s geopolitical position ...
... R&D conducted in the 2000s on ship-based solid-fuel IRBMs led to Moscow’s well-founded concerns since they can serve as a basis for creating “neo-Pershing” missiles.
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RSD-10 Pioneer (RSD-10 Pioneer)
Yet it was another missile, 9M729 (NATO reporting name: SSC-8), that was the real troublemaker.
However, when the Obama administration switched to the so-called “adaptive approach” to the European missile shield, it became a true gift to those searching for grounds to accuse the U....
... exceedingly high modernization potential. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the 1990s, Aegis was primarily intended to be used for intercepting ballistic missiles.
Strictly speaking, the first stage in Obama’s “phased approach” to NATO’s ballistic missile defence was using
Arleigh Burke
-class destroyers equipped with latest version of the CICS software and SM-3 Block IA missiles (RIM-161B in military classification) capable of intercepting short-range ballistic missiles,...
... for the progress of NATO-Russia relations, especially at a time of acute shortage of attention to Russia on the part of the United States.
However, the centripetal force did not last long and soon began to lose momentum. The U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, the invasion of Iraq, the “great expansion” of NATO, the color revolutions in the CIS countries, the clash of positions on Kosovo and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe – all this demonstrated to Russia that the policy of rapprochement with NATO had failed to yield the results ...
