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China, Russia Developing "Increasingly Capable" Missile Defenses: Pentagon
July 29, 2020 @ 05:34 AMThe Pentagon said Tuesday that Russia and China are both developing advanced and “increasingly capable” air defense systems in their arms race against the United States. ''China and Russia are developing increasingly capable and numerous missile defense systems, and integrating them into their defense strategies as they compete with the United States,'' a Department of Defense official said
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Days Before India Receives Rafale Jets, Pakistan holds Exercise with JF-17s
July 28, 2020 @ 09:01 AMPakistan Air Force (PAF) held an "operational exercise" in its Skardu base using JF-17 jets days before India is scheduled to welcome its most advanced fighters, the Dassault Rafale aircraft. Significantly, Skardu air base in Gilgit-Baltistan, an area which India claims is part of the undivided Kashmir
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Some 90 Chinese Nuclear Scientists Resign
July 27, 2020 @ 03:57 AMState Council of the Peoples Republic of China has set up a team to investigate to probe the recent resignation of over 90 nuclear security scientists at a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology (INEST). In a statement, CAS said last week that the team consisting of officials from the State Council's general office, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the CAS and other departments, will be sent to Hefei, Anhui province, to investigate the situation
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US Eases Export Rules on Sale of Military Drones to Allies
July 25, 2020 @ 07:27 AMThe United States on Friday loosened restrictions on export of military-grade drones that fly at speeds below 800kmph such as MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-4 Global Hawk to foreign customers. The rules of 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) agreement involving 35 countries, aimed to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, was changed to pave way for easier sale of unmanned aerial systems
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Iran Threatens to Sue South Korea for Unpaid Oil Debts
July 20, 2020 @ 06:49 AMSouth Korea may have to face a lawsuit if it fails to pay off billions of dollars of debt for oil imports. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Seyyed Abbas Mousavi told local media on Sunday that Tehran may lodge a complaint against Seoul if it doesnt settle the oil debts, estimated to be between $6
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Russia Developing Ship to Lift 7 Nuclear Submarines Sunk in Arctic Waters
July 13, 2020 @ 03:46 PMRussia is working on the design of a ship to lift 7 of its nuclear submarines sunk in Arctic waters which may be completed by 2032, Russian experts say. "The total activity of boats flooded in the Kara and Barents Seas is 1 million CI
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Bomb, Not Cyber Attack May Have Caused Iranian Nuclear Facility Explosion
July 7, 2020 @ 07:20 AMA bomb planted by an insider and not a suspected Israeli cyberattack may have caused an explosion in a facility housing centrifuges inside the Iranian nuclear site of Natanz last week. "The majority of the Revolutionary Guards believe that someone carried a bomb to the building," a member of the Revolutionary Guard was quoted as saying by the New York Times
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Power Plant Catches Fire in Iran’s Ahwaz After Transformer Explodes
July 4, 2020 @ 01:38 PMA power plant in southwestern Iranian city of Ahwaz caught fire after one of its transformers exploded on Saturday. "The power plant caught fire due to a transformer explosion,” Ebrahim Ghanbari, the head of the Ahwaz municipalitys fire and safety services, was quoted as saying by Iran's official news agency, IRNA
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Israeli Cyber Attack or Accident- What Caused Iran Nuclear Facility Explosion?
July 4, 2020 @ 04:36 AMA severe explosion that damaged part of a building of the Natanz nuclear power plant (NNPP) in Iran is being attributed to an Israeli cyber attack while Iranian officials claim it was an accident. The explosion and fire appear to have started from the inside
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Russian S-500 'Space Defense System' to be deployed this year
July 3, 2020 @ 04:42 AMThe upcoming Russian S-500 ‘Triumfator-Mor Prometheus will be called Space Defense System (SDS) and not air defense system going by its ability to destroy satellites and hypersonic weapons in low orbit space. In the most detailed listing of the features of the secretive S-500 SDS, the commander in chief of the Aerospace Forces of Russia Sergei Surovikin said during an interview with the Russian defense ministry's Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Wednesday: "According to its tactical and technical characteristics, the S-500 can be considered the first generation of space defense systems, since it will be able to destroy low-orbit satellites and space...
First Arafura-class Offshore Patrol Vessel Delivered to Australian MoD
Dutch F-35s Train for Rapid Deployment in Estonia
Turkish Baykar to Make Drones in Morocco
Sweden Announces $1.2B Military Support, its Biggest Ever to Ukraine
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U