Russia Looks to Beat Missile Defense, Official Says

Russia is working to improve its strategic systems to be able to counter U.S. missile defense interceptors, Russian Academy of Military Sciences President Makhmut Gareyev told ITAR-Tass yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 21).

“We have a long-term development program for Russia’s nuclear triad. This takes account of what the Americans are doing with their missiles,” Gareyev said. “This is primarily qualitative improvements to the Russian nuclear arsenal and development of delivery vehicles capable of getting past phased arrays of antimissile defense systems.”

“Washington’s withdrawal from the 1972 [Antiballistic Missile] Treaty and efforts to deploy interceptor missiles in the USA and Europe could tangibly destabilize the situation in Europe and worldwide,” he added (ITAR-Tass/BBC Worldwide Monitoring, Oct. 27).

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