Russia Is Building A New 100-Ton Monster Ballistic Missile

BI:  Not content to sit idly by while the U.S. parks a sophisticated missile defense system in Europe, Russia has come out with two interesting announcements.

Pravda reports that to "preserve parity in the field," Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will be renovating their Topol-M and Yars RS-24 missile systems and constructing an enormous new 100-ton ballistic missile to replace the RS-36 Voyevoda ICBM, known in the west as the Satan missile.

"Russia does not stand against the US missile  defense system. Russia stands against the creation of the missile defense system, which would be directly aimed against Russia to potentially reduce the possibilities of the Russian nuclear containment forces," one Russian official said.

This is only one step in Russia's ongoing protest to the European Missile Defense Shield currently being laid in place by the U.S. In addition, Ria Novosti reports the Russians have successfully carried out short-range interceptor missile test today, to develop their own missile defense shield.

The Russian Ministry of Defense posted a video of the launch to its website. Though Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is under no current threat from the Euro shield, he has implied that Russia may still pull out of any disarmament treaties it currently upholds with the U.S.