Source: Daily Signal By Nolan Peterson The U.S. Coast Guard was set to hand over two of its decommissioned 110-foot armed cutters to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at a ceremony Thursday in Baltimore. The move comes amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine over the free movement of merchant ships to Ukrainian ports in the… Continue reading WITH US AND BRITISH SUPPORT UKRAINE PUSHES BACK ON RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IN THE SEA OF AZOV
Month: September 2018
FRANCE TO BOLSTER DEFENSE SPENDING BY $2 BILLION
Source: Defense News By Pierre Tran France plans to boost the 2019 defense budget by €1.7 billion to €35.9 billion (by U.S. $2 billion to $42.2 billion), up 5 percent from the present year, the Armed Forces Ministry said. That spending increase excluded pensions and will represent 1.82 percent of gross domestic product, part of… Continue reading FRANCE TO BOLSTER DEFENSE SPENDING BY $2 BILLION
RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR CRUISE MISSILE IS STRUGGLING TO TAKE OFF (Vid.)
Source: NPR By Geoff Brumfiel It’s a terrifying weapon: a nuclear-powered cruise missile that can fly anywhere on the planet, possibly spewing radioactivity as it goes. In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his nation had successfully tested just such a machine. But new satellite imagery of a remote Russian test site suggests that… Continue reading RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR CRUISE MISSILE IS STRUGGLING TO TAKE OFF (Vid.)
SU-57 TO GET SUPERSONIC MISSILES WITH 300KM RANGE
Source: Defence World Russia’s most-advanced multipurpose fighter jet, Su-57 will reportedly be equipped with a hypersonic anti-aircraft missile with a range of over 300km, according to a report by Pravda.Ru, a Russian news site. Boris Obnosov, the general director of Tactical Missile Armament Corporation was quoted as saying by the Russian news daily that the… Continue reading SU-57 TO GET SUPERSONIC MISSILES WITH 300KM RANGE
RUSSIAN SUB FLEET CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING MISSILES WITH HYPERSONICS AND NUKES BY 2024
Source: CNBC By Amanda Macias A new Russian nuclear-powered submarine fleet, capable of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles outfitted with hypersonic weapons, will be ready for war by 2024, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report. In order to finance eight of the submarines, Moscow cut funding for other military modernization… Continue reading RUSSIAN SUB FLEET CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING MISSILES WITH HYPERSONICS AND NUKES BY 2024
GIVING SYRIA S-300 WILL NOT HALT ISRAELI STRIKES
By Joseph Trevithick Russia says it will supply Syria with S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, will jam the radar, navigation, and communications systems on any aircraft attacking targets in that country via the Mediterranean Sea, and will also provide equipment to the regime of dictator Bashar Al Assad to rapidly identify Russian military aircraft. This all… Continue reading GIVING SYRIA S-300 WILL NOT HALT ISRAELI STRIKES
THE MUST HAVES OF THE NEXT US STRATEGIC NUCLEAR BOMBER
Source: Defense One By Patrick Tucker Almost nothing is known about the new bomber in development, the B-21 Raider, the most important Air Force project of the new century. But it will differ from previous bombers in one critical feature: rapid upgradability, according to Air Force Gen. Tim Ray, who leads the service’s Global Strike… Continue reading THE MUST HAVES OF THE NEXT US STRATEGIC NUCLEAR BOMBER
RUSSIA OFFERS BUK-M3, TOR-M2 ALONG WITH S-400 TO INDIA
Source: Defence World While India and Russia are currently finalizing a deal on the S-400 long-range air defense missile system (ADMS), Moscow is now understood to be getting New Delhi interested in its Buk-M3 medium range and Tor-M3 short-range missile defence systems to form a single air-defence network. A suggestion to this effect had been… Continue reading RUSSIA OFFERS BUK-M3, TOR-M2 ALONG WITH S-400 TO INDIA
SECOND PROJECT 677 LADA CLASS SUBMARINE “KRONSTADT” LAUNCHED IN ST. PETERSBURG
Source: Navy Recognition The second Project 677 (Lada-class; NATO reporting name: St. Petersburg-class) diesel-electric submarine ‘Kronstadt’ has been launched at the Admiralty Shipyards (a subsidiary of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC)) in Saint Petersburg, according to the TASS news agency. “Despite construction halts and money shortages, the submarine has been launched. It should be mentioned… Continue reading SECOND PROJECT 677 LADA CLASS SUBMARINE “KRONSTADT” LAUNCHED IN ST. PETERSBURG
US SLAPS CHINESE ARMS PROCURER WITH SANCTIONS FOR BUYING RUSSIAN WEAPONS
Source: RT US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has authorized the addition of 33 Russian defense and intelligence officials and entities to the ever-growing US sanctions list and also targeted a Chinese military entity for buying Russian arms. The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) of 2017 instructs the US administration powers to target… Continue reading US SLAPS CHINESE ARMS PROCURER WITH SANCTIONS FOR BUYING RUSSIAN WEAPONS