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Outside View: Russia's tank woes -- Part 2

Russian tanks are behind those of the United States and other nations in using modern electronics. ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  1 Apr 2008

Outside View: Russian rail ICBMs -- Part 2

Russia's SS-18 Satan intercontinental ballistic missile, also produced in Ukraine, was tested and put on combat duty almost at the same time as the rail-mobile RT-23 -- NATO designation SS-24 Scalpel. But it has been modernized several times and its ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  11 Mar 2008
Related Topics: NATO

Outside View: Russian rail ICBMs -- Part 1

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, March 10 (UPI) -- In February 1983 a rail-based missile system entered trial service in the Soviet Union. Equipped with the RT-23 solid-fuel missile, the trains were able to stealthily travel more than 1,000 ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  10 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Mikhail Gorbachev

Outside View: ASAT weapons -- Part 2

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Soviet Union once used sea reconnaissance and targeting satellites with nuclear power packs aboard. Upon completion of their duty, they would be elevated to a so-called burial orbit to circle ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  25 Feb 2008
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  Robert Gates,  George W. Bush

Outside View: ASAT weapons -- Part 1

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- H-hour -- the time American spy satellite USA-193/NROL-21 had to fall -- was calculated for March 6. Where the crash would have taken place would have been unknown until the last moment. A more or ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  22 Feb 2008

Outside View: Nuclear security -- Part 2

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A medium-yield nuclear warhead taken apart by terrorists would contaminate an area of several square kilometers for many years. However, several hundred kilometers would be contaminated if ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  25 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Vladimir Putin,  International Atomic Energy Agency

Outside View: Nuclear security -- Part 1

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Starting in 2008, the U.S. defense budget will feature allocations for protection against nuclear terrorism. This will ensure the safe storage of radioactive substances in the United States and in ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  22 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Vladimir Putin

Outside View: Russia's rockets -- Part 2

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Russian Aerospace Agency Rosaviakosmos was quite happy about operational rockets, while only the military supported the Angara program and believed that Russia must have independent access to ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  15 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Sergei Ivanov

Outside View: Russia's rockets -- Part 1

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- In November 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on developing a new launch vehicle. The Russian Space Agency -- Roskosmos -- plans to announce the relevant tender in the next few ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  14 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Sergei Ivanov,  Vladimir Putin,  Boris Yeltsin

Outside View: Arctic satellite balance

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Russian space industry experts are currently discussing the concept of a federal program to use the results of space research to aid national socioeconomic development. The program envisions using ...

From YURY ZAITSEV, United Press International,  26 Dec 2007
Related Topics: Vladimir Putin

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