The proposed U.S. rail- and road- mobile basing modes for the MX and Midgetman ICBMs, however, will not in themselves solve the growing survivability problem posed by, among other things, modernized and new Soviet heavy missiles.
In sum, Russia is doing what it can to maintain as much nuclear capability as it can, expending very scarce resources on deploying a new mobile missile, keeping heavy MIRVed missiles in the field, and retaining a massive infrastructure an order of magnitude greater than our own in terms of numbers of personnel and the capability to produce new warheads.
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Ukraine and Kazakhstan demonstrated a similar pattern of cooperation when they decided to rid themselves of the nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles and heavy bombers inherited from the Soviet Union.
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But the fall of Gadhafi opened up a black market arms bazaar across North Africa, and western intelligence agencies believe AQIM may have acquired anti-aircraft missiles along with other heavy weapons, as well as plenty of vehicles, essential in a region of few (and dilapidated) roads.
Armed with heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, missiles and grenades, the militants singled out foreign workers at the plant, killing some of them on the spot and attaching explosive belts to others.
However, he said there was no indication that the rebels were armed with heavy weapons or surface-to-air missiles.
They're basically very large, heavy, fast rocks being launched at incoming missiles.
The week-long fighting in Qusair intensified early on Saturday, when activists reported heavy bombardments, including two ground-to-ground missiles and an air strike as well as artillery and rocket fire.
Honeywell began the MRAM effort in 1984 at the urging of the Department of Defense, which needed memory for satellites and long-range missiles that could withstand radiation in space without the addition of heavy shielding.
Cruise missiles and jet fighters work against fixed targets, concentrations of forces or heavy weapons on open ground.
The U.S. heavy bomber fleet consisted of fewer than 400 B-52s, none of which carried air-launched cruise missiles.
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As the United States has no idea how many SS-18 missiles the Russians actually have in their inventory, even the monitored destruction of all "declared" heavy ICBMs may leave Moscow in a position to utilize these silos in the future to launch SS-18s.
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