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Ukraine Calls US Missile Plans A 'Threat'
Kiev (AFP) Feb 05, 2007 Plans by the United States to build an anti-missile defence system in Central Europe pose a "threat" to Ukraine, the country's pro-Russian deputy prime minister Mykola Azarov said Monday. "It is a threat, especially for Ukraine," Azarov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying, referring to US plans to build an anti-missile shield in neighboring Poland and the Czech Republic. He insisted that Kiev should react strongly to the situation, referring to the 1962 missile crisis between the US and Cuba. "How would the Polish leaders react if, for instance, Russia offered and we accepted to install an anti-missile defence system on the Polish border? And how did the Americans react when the USSR placed its missiles in Cuba? That's how we should react," Azarov said. He went on to accuse Poland of not taking into account his country's interests, insisting that Warsaw should have "at least consulted" Ukraine on the subject. The United States last month confirmed plans to start talks with the Czech Republic and Poland to deploy an anti-missile defence system that it claimed would guard against potential attacks from Iran and North Korea. The plans have provoked virulent protests from Moscow.
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Northrop Grumman To Test Fire Kinetic Energy Interceptor Booster In 2008
Fairlakes VA (SPX) Feb 05, 2007The Kinetic Energy Interceptor program, under development by prime contractor Northrop Grumman, is on schedule to meet the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) objective of a 2008 booster flight, the company said today. The program successfully achieved all key proof-of-concept milestones in 2006 and is readying the system for a first flight test of this fast, new booster in 2008. As conceived by the MDA, KEI will be a mobile missile-defense system with the unique capability to destroy a hostile missile during its boost, ascent or midcourse phase of flight. |
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