MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (Agencies) – A senior Russian official says Moscow is preparing to counter any possible US missile raids launched on its soil from outer space.
"They [the Americans] truly see space as a potential sphere for armed conflict and in connection with this [they] are not withdrawing from plans to place weapons in space," Nikolai Solovtsov, the commander of Russia's missile forces, was quoted as saying by AFP.
Russia is working on "missiles whose flight falls outside the range of space-based missile defense systems," Solovtsov said adding that Russia had decided to equip its missile bases with the requisite ballistic features.
