Russian ICMB launch film

[Milo Minderbinder]

This news website in Dubai has come up with film of Thursdays Russian ICBM test
The Russians claim it worked - others suggest otherwise

Mysterious light over Middle East identified as Russian missile test (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/06/09/219540.html)

[BOAC]

Certainly 'evading'! Spectacular. Fits with the description posted on pprune.

[glad rag]

Hmm, is our world becoming a much more dangerous place again ? [I though all this stuff was frozen under treaty].

GR

[Milo Minderbinder]

07/06/2012 No UFO Russia' test-fires ballistic missile in Kapustin Yar - Seen in Israel - YouTube

[skippedonce]

No, the USA unilaterally withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ten years ago.

[Milo Minderbinder]

this isn't an anti-ballistic missile missile, so the ABM treaty would be irrelevant

Its a ballistic missile. I don't think there ever was a test treaty for those??
Anti-proliferation treaties, yes, but a test treaty?

[Two's in]

Who would have guessed that planning to park ABMs in Poland and the radar sites in the Czech Republic would have the Russians all excited and now demonstrating their own capability in that arena? After all, the US stated categorically they were only to be used against missiles from "rogue" nation states such as Iran and North Korea. If only the US had some historic analogy they could draw on, where a super power establishing missile bases on their own door step caused them to $hit the bed and draw the world closer to Armegeddon? History is such a wonderful thing.

[Milo Minderbinder]

I think this may be whats annoying the Russians at the moment - especially as theres a USA fleet in the Black Sea to back up her visit

U.S. promises military training to Georgia | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/us-georgia-clinton-idUSBRE8540WZ20120605)