RE: Russia Plans Nuclear Missiles In Syria Cuba Belarus & More

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

Russia Topol-M ICBM that could hit anywhere in the USA




Russia's SRBM Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) Missile is Unmatched by NATO...

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Russia considers nuclear missiles for Syria, Mediterranean, Baltic
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DEBKA file Special Report

August 17, 2008, 9:25 AM

http://debka. com/headline. php?hid=5513

DEBKAfile's military sources report Moscow's planned retaliation for America's missile interceptors in Poland and US-Israeli military aid to Georgia may come in the form of installing Iskandar surface missiles in Syria and its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad

Russian Baltic and Middle East warships, submarines and long-range bombers may be armed with nuclear warheads, according to Sunday newspapers in Europe

In Georgia, Russian troops and tanks advanced to within 30 km of Tbilisi Saturday, Aug. 15. A Russian general said Sunday they had started pulling out after president Dimitry Medvedev signed the ceasefire agreement with Georgia and president George W.
Bush called again for an immediate withdrawal

After routing Georgia over the breakaway enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Moscow appears to be eying Poland, the Middle East, and possibly Ukraine, as the main arenas for its reprisals

One plan on the table in Moscow, DEBKAfile's sources report, is the establishment of big Russian military, naval and air bases in Syria and the release of advanced weapons systems withheld until now to Iran (the S-300 air-missile defense system) and Syria (the nuclear-capable 200 km-range Iskandar surface missile)

Shortly before the Georgian conflict flared, Moscow promised Washington not to let Iran and Syria have these sophisticated pieces of hardware

The Iskander's cruise attributes make its launch and trajectory extremely hard to detect and intercept.
If this missile reaches Syria, Israel will have to revamp its anti-missile defense array and Air Force assault plans for the third time in two years, as it constitutes a threat which transcends all its defensive red lines

Moscow's war planners know this and are therefore considering new sea and air bases in Syria as sites for the Iskander missiles. Russia would thus keep the missiles under its hand and make sure they were not transferred to Iran.
At the same time, Syrian crews would be trained in their operation

DEBKAfile's military sources report Syrian president Bashar Assad will be invited to Moscow soon to finalize these plans in detail

Military spokesmen in Moscow said Saturday and Sunday that Russian military planners to started redesigning the nation’s strategic plans for a fitting response to America's decision to install 10 missile interceptors in Poland and the war developments in Georgia

The chairman of the Israeli Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee, Tzahi Hanegbi, spoke out strongly Sunday, Aug. 17, against treasury plans to slash the defense budget.
He warned that the military faced grave confrontations in the coming year - possibly on several fronts




December 08, 2007 - Russia installed S-400 nuclear air defense system in Moscow region after US NATO threatened Russia with missile shield in Poland Czech - The S-400 Triumf ( English: triumph) is a new generation of anti-aircraft/anti-missile weapon system complex developed by the Almaz Central Design Bureau as an upgrade of the S-300 family. Its NATO reporting name is SA-21 Growler.
The S-400 was previously known as S-300PMU-3 It overshadows the capabilities of the other systems from the S-300 series, and its range is 2 times greater than that of the MIM-104 Patriot system, According to Russian officials, the S-400 is capable of detecting and destroying targets out to a range of 400km (250 miles), including aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, even low-RCS targets utilizing stealth technology



July 22, 2008 - Russia plans to deploy NUCLEAR BOMBERS to CUBA


November 14, 2007 - Russian Iskander missiles could be supplied to Belarus in response to U.S. plans for a missile shield, according to Russia's Defence Ministry. A spokesman says it would also compensate for nuclear and conventional missiles destroyed as part of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with the U.
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Russia Fires SS-21 Ballistic Missiles at the Republic of Georgia -
WASHINGTON, Aug 14, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance ( www. missiledefenseadvocacy. org), issued the following statements about the situation in Europe concerning Russia, Poland and the Republic of Georgia "Over the last few days Russia has fired over two dozen SS-21 Ballistic Short Range Missiles into the country of Geo More..rgia, integrating ballistic missile strikes with their conventional military forces. The SS-21 is a road mobile, solid fuel, single stage ballistic missile, which is maneuverable in flight and carries a high-explosive warhead weighing up to 1060lbs. with 150 meter accuracy. It has a range of 43 miles.
These missiles have been used by the Russians tactically for psychological and military targets as the Georgians do not have the capability to defend against or defeat ballistic missiles