Looks like Ian Bruce of the Glasgow Herald secured a statement from MOD on the High Surety Warhead: An MoD spokesman said: “No decisions on any replacement for Trident have yet been taken and there is no programme to build a successor warhead.” Interesting non-denial. What I asserted — and what is not denied — …
More on that Bogus BM-25 Pic
by | 2007-09-01 | 16 Comments
Last week, I wrote that Space Daily tried to pass off a picture of a Russian missile as the “BM-25” which may or may not be North Korea’s newest IRBM. Anatoly Zak writes in to confirm that he took the picture of the SS-N-6 at the NIIKhimmash facility in Sergiev Posad and that Space Daily …
Secret Screws
by | 2007-08-31 | 15 Comments
Oh, you thought this was a Larry Craig post. You are going to be very disappointed. Or maybe not. This is yet another post about our favorite form of smut here at Arms Control Wonk — wonkporn. See that picture above? Notice that instead of a tasteful tarpaulin, leaving something to the imagination, the propeller …
Revised Calculation on Iranian Hex
by | 2007-08-30 | 4 Comments
So. We know that Iran operated 8 cascades between 18 April- 19 August. That is seventeen weeks, 119 days or 2856 hours. Eight cascades, fed 70 grams of hex per hour, should have consumed 1,600 kg of hex. Assume the four additional cascades began operating on May 13 (about 14 weeks). The additional four cascades …
