Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2010 |
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Air force colonel Dai Xu, a renowned military strategist, wrote in an article released this month that “China is in a crescent-shaped ring of encirclement. The ring begins in Japan, stretches through nations in the South China Sea to India, and ends in Afghanistan. Washington’s deployment of anti-missile systems around China’s periphery forms a crescent-shaped [...]
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Posted by Matt in January 7th, 2010 |
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China’s IRBM and cruise missile programs have caught Moscow’s attention, but Russian forces are limited in their ability to respond with a counter strike to a TBM or cruise missile attack, short of using their strategic bomber forces or inter-continental ballistic missile systems (ICBMs). The lack of a credible intermediate range strike system against China [...]
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Posted by Matt in October 26th, 2009 |
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A defense industry source said Monday the failure of Russia’s Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile was due to a defective steering system.
The unidentified source said the July 15 test of the missile in the North Sea resulted in a self-destruct during its first stage because of the defective system. RIA Novosti said the test failure marked [...]
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Posted by Matt in October 19th, 2009 |
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The United States will deploy ground-to-air Patriot missiles in Poland in 2010 and is discussing its plans for a new anti-missile system with Warsaw, a US defence official said Friday.
“We presented some detailed information on how the rotations of our Patriot batteries would be conducted over the next few years under the August 2008 agreement” [...]
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Posted by Matt in October 3rd, 2009 |
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The report, titled “Possible Military Dimensions of Iran’s Nuclear Program,” was produced in consultation with a range of nuclear weapons experts inside and outside the agency. It draws a picture of a complex program, run by Iran’s Ministry of Defense, “aimed at the development of a nuclear payload to be delivered using the Shahab 3 [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2009 |
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An Israeli lawmaker said in remarks published on Thursday that the delivery of Russia’s advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran would accelerate a possible Israeli decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Israeli MP says S-300 missiles may force airstrike on Iran – WashingtonTV
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Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2009 |
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Experts at the IAEA are in agreement that Teheran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press on Thursday.
IAEA report says Iran can now build the bomb | [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2009 |
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The sophisticated system is used as Israel’s main radar warning system and is the radar for Israel’s principle interceptor missile system, the Arrow. AdvertisementThe South Korean ministry of defense decided to purchase the Israeli radar system after surveying various products from different companies and running a number of tests. The $200 million deal will be for [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2009 |
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Deputy US army chief, Gen. James Cartwright and defense secretary Robert Gates amplified President Barack Obama’s statement on the US missile shield in East Europe in Washington Thursday, Sept. 17, by announcing that a new and better anti-missile missile system would be deployed in Israel and the Caucasus.
DEBKAfile discloses exclusively that the site would be [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama essentially handed Russia a gift on Thursday with his decision to roll back a planned U.S. missile defense in eastern Europe.
The Russian government had loudly protested U.S. plans begun by Obama’s predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, to deploy an anti-missile system in eastern Europe that the United States insisted had been aimed [...]
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