MOSCOW, April 10 (UPI) -- Russia plans to keep its long-time SS-18 Satan intercontinental ballistic missile in service until 2019, a top official said Friday.

WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- Russia is continuing its massive strategic missile buildup despite its growing economic crisis that is already causing unrest across the far-flung Russian Federation.

MOSCOW, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Russia is building a new missile to respond to the U.S. missile defense system in Europe, the country's strategic missile troop commander said.

MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A Russian military official says his country could target U.S. missile shield defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic with its latest ballistic missiles.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- It's not exactly a surprise, but it's important news anyway. Russia's new President Dmitry Medvedev has pledged to maintain the top-priority modernization of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces designed to be able to swamp America's ballistic missile defense systems.

MOSCOW, May 5 (UPI) -- The military wing responsible for Russia's intercontinental ballistic missile battery said Monday it plans to double the number of test launches in 2008.

MOSCOW, March 11 (UPI) -- Russia's SS-18 Satan intercontinental ballistic missile, also produced in Ukraine, was tested and put on combat duty almost at the same time as the rail-mobile RT-23 -- NATO designation SS-24 Scalpel. But it has been modernized several times and its service life was extended after trial and commercial launches -- the latter as the Dnepr boosters -- until 2020.

MOSCOW, March 10 (UPI) -- In February 1983, a rail-based missile system entered trial service in the Soviet Union.

MOSCOW, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- It looks as if Russia has long guessed the American moves to create a missile defense system in Europe, and is responding tit-for-tat and even figure-for-figure.