Source: Bulgarian Military By Boyko Nikolov According to the military expert, Lieutenant-General Yuri Netkachev, in the event of a conflict with NATO or the United States, one of the first Russian targets would be the possible new U.S. military base, Ford Trump, which could be neutralized with the help of the operational tactical Iskander missiles,… Continue reading RUSSIAN EXPERT: IN CASE OF A CONFLICT RUSSIA WOULD USE KH-47M2 KINZHAL MISSILE

Source: alert5 China may have deployed its YLC-8B UHF anti-stealth search radar on Pintan Island, Fujian Province. Satellite imagery from Google Earth suggests the radar was only installed this year. Developed by the No.14 Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETGC). The radar is claimed to be able to detect stealthy aircraft at… Continue reading CHINA MAY HAVE DEPLOYED UHF YLC-8B ANTI-STEALTH RADAR NEAR TAIWAN STRAIT

Source: The Drive By Tyler Rogoway and Ivan Voukadinov Russia’s recent adaptation of their Iskander tactical ballistic missile into an air-launched weapon made major headlines and was among the least technologically reaching of Putin’s new cadre of superweapons that are supposedly in development. The carrier aircraft for that weapon, named ‘Kinzhal,’ is MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor.… Continue reading RUSSIAN MIG-31 CARRYING HUGE MYSTERY MISSILE EMERGES NEAR MOSCOW

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