Contents tagged with missiles

  • Russia expands construction at five solid-fuel rocket facilities

    Russia is ramping up construction at five sites dedicated to the production of solid-fuel rocket engines, according to recent satellite images. These photos may signal Kremlin's plans to significantly boost its missile production, reports the news outlet Agentstvo.

    Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), examined the production sites through satellite imagery where the Soviet Union once manufactured solid-fuel rocket engines. These sites are …

  • Russia launches massive missile attack on Ukraine

    Russian launched a broad missile assault on several Ukrainian regions early Sunday morning, November 17. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian strategic bombers Tu-95MS launched cruise missiles around 6:00 AM Kyiv time. Cruise missiles Kalibr were also launched from the Black Sea, with hypersonic missiles Kinzhal fired from MiG-31 aircraft.

    During the night, Ukrainian regions witnessed drone strikes, with explosions reported in Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv. Areas like Odessa, …

  • Ukraine's missile program makes strides with new long-range and anti-aircraft systems

    Ukraine has advanced towards the creation of its own missile with a striking range of approximately 700 kilometers, while also working on an anti-aircraft missile system capable of reaching a 100 km radius. This isn't an entirely new area of focus for Ukraine. Back in April, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the commencement of serial production for these new missile prototypes. According LIGA.net, recent updates about the 700 km-range missile were shared by Volodymyr Horbulin, First Vice …

  • Iran confirms missile shipments to Russia as part of barter deal

    Iran has supplied ballistic missiles to Russia. Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security, confirmed this information in an interview with Didban Iran, explaining that these exchanges are part of a barter agreement wherein Tehran receives soybeans and wheat in return and "circumvents sanctions through partnership with Russia".

    Ardestani admitted Iran's military aid to Moscow just hours after Iran’s mission to the UN dismissed a report from The …

  • Russian media: Russia completes testing of nuclear engine for its new weapons

    Russia has completed the testing of a portable nuclear propulsion system for cruise missiles and autonomous underwater vehicles, RIA Novosti reported with reference to an official source in the Russian military.

    The source stated that such technology has only been developed and implemented in Russia.

    According to the source, in recent years Moscow has gone to special efforts to send the West “signals” that the West’s attempts to neutralize Russia’s nuclear potential through anti-missile …

  • Iran tests ballistic missile capable of hitting Israel

    The Islamic Republic of Iran issued a statement on the successful test of a ballistic missile with a range of 2000 km, as reported by Iran’s state-run media sources.

    According to the Iranian government, the test was successful. It took place a few hours after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, a branch of Iran's Armed Forces) demonstrated this missile at a military parade in the capital, Tehran.

    According to the Iranian media, the actions of the Iranian authorities in the sphere of the …

  • Russia deploys new S-400 missile systems in Arctic

    Before the end of 2017, Russia will deploy two new S-400 Triumph surface-to-air missile systems in the Arctic, announced General-Major Sergey Moskvichev, commander of the first anti-aircraft division.

    “Since 2015, an S-400 system has been deployed at the Kola Peninsula. This year the same anti-aircraft missile system will take over the standby duty in the Archangelsk region, and another will go to the Kola Peninsula,” he said in an interview for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

    Moskvichev …

  • General Hyten: The US has 'no defense' against Russia's new cruise missile

    The United States has "no defense" against ground-based cruise missiles recently deployed by Russia, according to a report submitted to Congress by a high-ranking American general.

    The Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, General John Hyten, warned that Russian missile systems "are within range and can threaten most of the continent of Europe" and that the US "has no defense against it," especially with regard to the defense of European allies.

    The US authorities described the deployment of …

  • Media: Russia delivered 50 Tochka-U missiles to Syria

    This week, Russia delivered 50 Tochka-U tactical missiles to the Syrian port of Tartus. This was Russia’s largest delivery of such weapons to Syria, Fox News reported, citing a U.S. official.

    "This is a very big delivery of missiles for someone who is supposedly winding down the war effort," the source told the channel.

    Recently, the Russian military in Syria reportedly fired two missiles Tochka-U and four Iskander missiles at the positions of the opposition fighters in the Idlib province. …

  • Media: China has deployed missiles near the border with Russia

    China has deployed the newest Dongfeng-41 (DF-41) intercontinental ballistic missiles in the northeastern Heilongjiang Province on the Russian frontier, as reported by Apple Daily citing photos of the missile system published on the Chinese Internet.

    It is noted that the Chinese Army will station a total of three brigades with the DF-41 missiles. One of the brigades is already in Xinyang city in the central Hunan province.

    The second brigade was supposedly placed in the city of Daqing in …