Russia to test its first submarine-based hypersonic missiles
Russia Beyond The Zircon hypersonic missile has been sent for underwater testing on the Project 885 Yasen-class nuclear submarine, Russian media reported citing…
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China’s island fortifications are a challenge to international norms
Defense News While the world is combating the new coronavirus, COVID-19, China continues to fortify its islands in the South…
Read MoreTurkey repeats working group offer to U.S. to solve row over Russian defense purchase
AzerNews Turkey on Tuesday repeated an offer to the United States to establish a technical working group including NATO to…
Read MoreNearly a dozen Iranian vessels come dangerously close to US military ships in the Gulf, Pentagon says
CNBC News WASHINGTON — Nearly a dozen vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy took “dangerous and provocative” actions near U.S.…
Read MoreThornberry wants $6 billion this year to launch counter-China fund
DefenseNews WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee will release a proposal Thursday to formally create…
Read MorePossible Chinese Nuclear Testing Stirs U.S. Concern
The Wall Street Journal China might be secretly conducting nuclear tests with very low explosive power despite Beijing’s assertions that…
Read MoreDRS Laurel to build 59 more AN/SPQ-9B shipboard missile-defense radar systems for cruisers and destroyers
Military & Aerospace Electronics U.S. Navy missile-defense experts are asking the DRS Laurel Technologies segment of Leonardo DRS in Johnstown, Pa., to…
Read MoreDestroyer USS Roosevelt Now in Europe, USS Porter Operating in Black Sea
USNI News Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is now operating in U.S. 6th Fleet as the newest hull in a…
Read MoreHypersonics: 5 More Army-Navy Flight Tests By 2023
Breaking Defense “We need to accelerate the pace of testing,” the Army’s three-star director of hypersonics says. “Fourth quarter FY23 is when the Army…
Read MoreRussia Flexes Space Muscle with Anti-Satellite Weapon Test
Air Force Magazine Russia again flexed its muscle in space by testing a ground-based, direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon on April 15,…
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