Who Doesn Like the Topol Missile System and Why?
Moscow Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, 15-21 Mar 97 No 10, p 6 by Igor Pavlov With the coming of the era of freedom of speech and pluralism of opinions, special public attention has been drawn by the sphere of defense organizational development, practically a closed topic previously. Problems of supporting the Army and Navy with necessary arms, and above all questions connected with further development of the country’s strategic nuclear forces occupy not the last place in the discussion which has unfolded. One of the purposeful lines can be easily discerned; its content is to prove the “uselessness” (and even harmfulness) of the most important domestic strategic weapon system–the Topol mobile land-based intercontinental missile complex (PGRK). To correctly understand the hidden motive for attacks on that missile complex, we must take into account, first of all, characteristic points in the history of its creation and, secondly, the professional ability of the faultfinding (not to b
