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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
That's the point of a Missle defense system Term, It makes your missles useless. That's why Russia is all pissy, they have enough spy info from old KGB to know it works and don't like it being deployed so close.
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Useless, you said? So when an american SM-3 succesfully intercepted an up-to-date Russian ICBM armed by nuclear or conventional warheads?
Tell me any info about data and place of that wonderful field test of American ABM system.
Your ABM facilities just pose danger to strategic balance of nuclear weapons between Russia and USA.
Russia is not "pissy", Russian leadership just warns your administration as well as various loyal puppets / servants of the USA located in Europe and elsewhere to stop playng dangerous games nearby borders of Russian Federation. Plain and simple.
Furthermore, Russians need not gather info how-US ABM system-works " from old KGB agents" just because the very first succesful test of anti-ballistic missile interceptor took place in the USSR many years prior to demonstration of principles of Reagan's SDI to wide public.
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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Basically cause then they can't bully Poland anymore..
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Why do you think so? Russia is an independent state in foreign policy and need not follow advices of some sort of "pyramidal eye-in-the-sky" from Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
US missle tech is easily 20 years ahead of everybody elses. It's 30 years since SDI was first envisioned, more than enough time to have achieved viable working weapon platforms.
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Yep. That's why your family of up-to-date Atlas space rockets are equipped by Russian-built RD-180 engines, designed 20 years ago.