Report: Russia Plans Large-Scale Maneuvers of Its Nuclear Forces

[rodbarnett]

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian nuclear forces are preparing for a massive exercise that would be their largest in more than 20 years, a newspaper reported Friday.
The one-day maneuvers set for next month would involve test-firing several ballistic missiles and taking almost the entire fleet of Russia's strategic bombers into the air in a simulation of a nuclear conflict, according to the business daily Kommersant.

Official comments on the exercise have been sketchy. The chief of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, was quoted by the Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday as saying the exercise would involve several launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles in various regions of Russia but gave no further details.

Kommersant said that the maneuvers would be the largest since the 1982 exercise of Soviet nuclear forces dubbed by the West as the "seven-hour nuclear war."

In the exercise planned for February, Russian Tu-160 bombers

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA18PDD2QD.html

[colonel odis]

1. oh boy this is good news.....

is that the sound of pants being pooped in washington that i hear?

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. ROFL!!! Thanks Colonel

I just spewed my morning coffee all over my monitor but you made my day!!! :D:yourock:

[bpilgrim]

3. can't compare to what we got goin on in the ME... don't get your pannies

in a bunch :evilgrin:


peace

[JPace]

4. Maybe Russia is trying to remind the AWOL regime....

that it cannot go around warring against any
country it wants to occupy all the time.

Russia to Washington...."cool it you bullies!"

[mbperrin]

5. And in other good news, American school children can

be re-trained in duck and cover! Nothing like a little healthy exercise during the school day!

[0007]

6. Backyard bomb shelter contractors are gonna make some dough

....then a again maybe only Halliburton can lawfully do the work.