Month: September 2018

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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