Congress Targets Russia’s ‘Satan’ Missile – The Daily Beast US Congress is looking to pressure a Ukrainian lab to end its maintenance of one of Moscow’s fiercest missiles. Earlier this month, the Russians announced they would discontinue the sale of rocket engines to the United States if those engines could be used for military purposes. An amendment to the annual Pentagon budget bill, expected to pass this week, instructs President Obama to begin talks with the Ukrainian government aimed at ending long-standing cooperation between Kiev and Moscow on the maintenance of their Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs. The long-range missiles are known in Russia as the RS-20s and dubbed by NATO as the SATANs. If passed into law, the amendment would require Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to submit a report within 30 days of the bill’s passage to Congress on the U.S. plan to end any Ukrainian cooperation with Russia on the ICBMs and “any recommendations it has for how the United States and its allies could benefit from the capability of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau [Dnipropetrovsk, Eastern Ukraine].”
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 22:49:19 +0000