October 20, 2003 at 6:12 pm
Any more info on this missile?
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000567;p=4
And the Russians look only too ready to help. Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Moskovsky this week said he “would not exclude” the export of Russia’s new super-missile Iskander-E to traditional customers like Iran and Syria. The Iskander-E, a highly accurate and extremely mobile surface-to-surface missile, was developed specifically to beat American anti-missile systems like the Patriot 3 and Israel’s Arrow.
Moskovsky said the Iskander-E will complete its testing program by the end of this year. Designed to come just within the legal limits of the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty, it can deliver multiple warheads up to 150 miles, and makes Iraq’s old Scud missiles look like so many catapults.
Proud designer Nikolai Gushchin of the KBM Engineering Design Bureau at Kolomna calls it “the missile system of the 21st century.”