In the face of Iran’s continued race towards nuclear power, as well as growing tensions with Syria, the Israel Air Force will hold an exercise in the coming weeks to test the Arrow missile defense system’s capability in tracking an advanced Iranian Shihab 3, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Defense officials said that the Black [...]

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Recent events serve as a reminder of how menacing behavior from Iran and Syria keeps the Middle East on a hair trigger. On Tuesday, Israel learned that Hezbollah was rapidly rebuilding its military capabilities and preparing for renewed conflict with Israel. The next morning, a London-based Arab newspaper reported that Syria was concentrating troops and [...]

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The U.S. Navy, after nearly six years of warnings from Pentagon testers, still lacks a plan for defending aircraft carriers against a supersonic Russian-built missile, according to current and former officials and Defense Department documents.
The missile, known in the West as the “Sizzler,” has been deployed by China and may be purchased by Iran. Deputy [...]

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Russia and the United States have the world’s largest nuclear arsenals. Both countries have powerful armies, fleets and air forces. The same can be said for China, as well, which stands as the world’s third most powerful country. The three countries are large, in land area and population. Together they possess a quarter of the [...]

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Britain’s Royal Navy has declared the latest version of the Tomahawk land attack missile operational onboard the newly uprated nuclear-powered submarine HMS Torbay.
The new missile has a significantly improved response time, a longer range and higher precision at a reduced cost compared with the existing Tomahawk fitted by the British.
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Russia will put its first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine through sea trials in the second half of 2008, the Russian Navy commander said on Friday.
The fourth generation Yury Dolgoruky was built at the Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region and was taken out of dry dock last April. It will be equipped with [...]

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China’s stockpile of nuclear warheads has increased sharply, with more DF-31A and JL-2 long-range strategic ballistic missiles entering service, giving it preliminary capability to engage in three-dimensional nuclear strikes upon opponent targets.
The changes in the Chinese nuclear capability started in 1995, before which the People’s Liberation Army Second Artillery Force was often teased as “a [...]

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