Russia can deliver a preemptive strike on the EuroMD system
Moscow. 3 May 2012. INTERFAX.RU - Russia may decide to deliver a preemptive strike on objects of the European missile defense, said Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation General of the Army Nikolay Makarov:
"Given the destabilizing nature of the missile defense system, namely: creating the illusion of causing an unpunished disarming strike, the decision to proactively use existing means of destruction will be made in a period of aggravation of the situation."
The main evidence of the missile defense threat was that the Russian side decided to make a visual computer presentation: they showed on a giant screen how a Russian nuclear attack on the United States was choking. Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles aimed at Los Angeles and New York are brought down by NATO interceptors without a quarter of the way - according to the Russian military, such a scenario will become possible by 2020.
"We see that the trajectory of the missile’s flight from the southern direction passes over the zone of the third stage antimissile defense. Therefore, interception of the target is potentially impossible," commented the computer scheme of Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov. "When building capacity to intercept strategic missiles with a range of up to 11 thousand . kilometers - that is, the fourth stage of the deployment of a missile defense system - with such parameters of the affected area, interception will be possible. "
"It is obvious that when the characteristics of the system planned for the fourth stage are achieved, the base in Romania will potentially be capable of intercepting Russian missiles deployed in the European part of the country," he noted. Gerasimov also pointed to the threat to the Russian nuclear deterrent forces placing missile defense elements on ships in the seas adjacent to the Russian borders.
The American delegation, led by State Department Special Representative Ellen Toscher, in response, decided to stress that the computer model of the Russian Ministry of Defense is based on erroneous data. For example, USA are not going to place interceptors in the Baltic Sea area at all. In addition, NATO interceptors do not keep up with Russian missiles, especially if they are equipped with multiple warheads and false warheads.
“Our system is not being built and will not be directed against Russia,” said NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow. “Of course, I respect Mr. Makarov and General Gerasimov. But you did not convince me.”
Vershbow even prompted the Russian military for which American megalopolises and with which missiles they can hit with confidence in success: “Russian strategic facilities located in Kozelsk and Tatishchevo can be sent to Chicago and Los Angeles. Russian missile systems located on The Far East, may threaten the east coast of the United States. "
“Even according to the Russian analysis, they cannot be covered by the NATO missile defense system, which will not be able to threaten Russia's strategic nuclear forces either at the first, or at the second, or at the third, or at the fourth stages,” said Vershbow.
Meanwhile, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Patrushev warned that by 2020, the European missile defense system would learn to intercept Russian missiles. "At the turn of 2018-2020 - this is the third and fourth phase of the implementation of the deployment of European missile defense in Europe - on the continent should appear such anti-missile weapons, which will be able to intercept part of the Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles and ballistic missiles submarines," - Patrushevyu fears
and the former Soviet Union (were in Ukraine and Kazakhstan).
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