MOSCOW. Oct 12 (Interfax-AVN) - The deployment of the first anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) in Alaska as part of the U.S. national anti-missile defense scheme is a propaganda move, rather than a defense necessity, said deputy director of the All-Russia Research Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering Igor Ostretsov.
"From a technological point of view, the idea of building a national anti-missile defense system holds no prospects for the United States. This became clear back in the 1980s when the SDI program (strategic defense initiative of President Ronald Reagan - Interfax-AVN) was being discussed. Apparently timed to coincide with the upcoming presidential elections, the ABM deployment in Alaska is none other than a PR move," Ostretsov said.
In the 1970s-80s, Ostretsov conducted scientific research on how to make strategic missiles invisible to radar at various stages of their flight.