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Russia Tests New Missile Designed to Overcome U.S. Defenses On Saturday Russia successfully test-launched a missile designed to penetrate missile defenses. The commander of Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces, Nikolai Solovtsov, quoted by AP, said the K65M-R had been launched from a testing ground at Kapustin Yar in the southern Astrakhan region. The main purpose of the launch was to test “a uniform warhead for land- and sea-based ballistic missiles” and newly-developed elements of a system designed to penetrate missile defenses. The commander added that plans for a U.S. missile-defense system “could upset strategic stability.” He suggested that the test was part of an effort to ensure that Russian missiles are capable of foiling any U.S. shield. He said the test involved optic and radar measurement systems that reproduce similar U.S. systems. “The planned scale of the United States’ deployment of a ... missile defense system is so considerable that the fear that it could have a negative effect on the parameters of Russia’s nuclear deterrence potential is quite justified,” Solovtsov said. He added that the system being tested Saturday would make missiles more difficult to spot and their trajectories more difficult to predict. Since its inception in 1946, the Kapustin Yar testing ground had witnessed 140 launches. Saturday’s missile launch was the first one since 1999. Russia opposed Washington’s withdrawal in 2002 from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in order to deploy a national missile defense, saying the U.S.-Soviet pact was a key element of international security. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin called the decision a mistake which would hurt global security, but not threaten Russia. The treaty banned missile defense systems on the assumption that the fear of retaliation would prevent either nation from launching a first strike. ---------------------------------------------------
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