global antimissile defense system

NEW DELHI: Noting that India needed an anti-missile defence, the US today talked about the possibility of cooperation in developing such a shield. "We understand India's needs for an anti-missile shield," visiting Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he held talks with his counterpart A K Antony.

President George W. Bush and the leader of the Czech Republic said Wednesday that they were close to agreeing on a plan for the United States to install an early-warning radar system in the Czech Republic, a key component of a missile defense system that has drawn stiff opposition from Russia.

NATO is looking into how a planned US missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic could relate to the alliance, on both technical and political levels, its secretary general said Friday.

MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) - The missile defense elements the U.S. plans to deploy in Poland could be used as shock weapons, and present a real threat to Russia, a Russian military expert said on Thursday. "The antimissile missiles the U.S. plans to deploy in Poland are capable of flying along a ballistic trajectory, and can be considered a shock weapon. They can easily be equipped with special warheads and are fairly precise," Professor Vladimir Zavaly, a missile defense expert, told RIA Novosti.