What is more, this covert mobile missile deployment was successfully concealed for over two years.
Why not continue to insist on a total mobile missile ban, as President Reagan did?
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Moreover, Pentagon officials said they became concerned about a mobile missile spotted in a parade last April.
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The manner in which the Administration decided to enter into this understanding with mobile missile enthusiasts in Congress is also deeply troubling.
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The Bush Administration and Congressional supporters of its mobile missile plan have set the stage for a rout in the arms control negotiations.
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This is particularly true when mobile missile forces are compared to the costs versus the strategic value added by deployment of the first phases of U.S. strategic defense systems.
Serious analysts of the current budget cycle recognize that there is little likelihood of both the two mobile missile programs sought by the Bush Administration actually being approved by Congress.
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In other words, under any foreseeable circumstances, U.S. investment in an effort to mimic Soviet mobile missile programs is unlikely to produce strategic benefits commensurate with the cost in defense resources.
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We urgently need to develop local missile defense systems for U.S. troops and allied countries in Asia, and we should upgrade the Navy's Aegis technology to give us a mobile missile defense capability.
Once such systems are legitimized, the Soviet Union will not agree to ban them simply because the Congress decides down the road not to allocate the billions required for counterpart U.S. mobile missile programs.
It is also needed for operations against future adversaries who will employ large numbers of mobile missile systems as well as mines and submarines that force the carriers to operate far from the enemy's coast.
In particular, such a deployment is a far more effective means of responding to the emergence of a large and untargetable Soviet mobile missile force than a protracted U.S. effort to deploy its own, counterpart rail- and road-mobile systems.
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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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During the Gulf War, SAS teams penetrated deep within Iraq to search for mobile Scud missile launchers.
They spoke on the same day a U.S. official first told CNN that communications intercepts indicated North Korea may be planning to launch a mobile ballistic missile in the coming days or weeks.
The officials spoke on the same day a U.S. official first told CNN that communications intercepts indicated North Korea may be planning to launch a mobile ballistic missile in the coming days or weeks.
Instead, a combination of multiple, austere silos among which a transportable (as opposed to fully mobile) missile could be moved and an ability to defend the loaded silos preferentially offers a more militarily and cost-effective approach.
In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
Acquiring this ability is costly: you need more missiles, mobile missiles and missile-toting submarines.
Only in the final resort would mobile anti-missile forces be deployed near a potential aggressor, he said.
The range he described could refer to a mobile North Korean missile known as the Musudan, believed to have a range of 3, 000 kilometers (1, 800 miles).
It appears to be progressing toward that goal, however, and Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee that North Korea has also taken initial steps toward fielding what appears to be a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.
Pentagon officials cited recent developments in North Korea a long-range missile test, a nuclear test and demonstration of a mobile launcher that suggested the country's missile technology is advancing faster than earlier predicted.
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"It may be a special, mobile, non-strategic anti-missile force, " Ivashov told a news conference.
To assure the Russians that this initiative would only modify, not imperil, the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed in 1972, however, the Administration intends to reaffirm in a new agreement the earlier accord's bans on sea-, air-, mobile ground- and space-based missile defenses of the territory of the United States.
The PLA is developing a road-mobile ICBM and it is trying to acquire Russian and Ukrainian ballistic missile technology.
Yep, that means airfields, electrical grids, mobile phone networks and more all rendered useless without a shot fired, a missile launched or a warning given.
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"What is more, if any U.S. mobile ICBM is going to run into problems on budgetary grounds, it is the Midgetman single-warheaded missile, " Gaffney said.
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