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FSA Overruns Al Kibar

Jeffrey Lewis | Feb 25, 2013 | Relevancy Score: 21.72

…is that Syria has taken a great leap forward in terms of its missile arsenal. Before, Damascus assembled missiles from parts purchased from other countries – none of the missile…

 

The Cruise Missile Conundrum

Aaron Stein | Jun 27, 2014 | Relevancy Score: 21.72

Are cruise missiles proliferating? Are the North Koreans in the cruise missile business? How has open source helped analysts track cruise missile proliferation? Today, Jeffrey and Aaron discuss North Korea’s…

 

Iran’s New Missile

Joshua Pollack | Aug 23, 2010 | Relevancy Score: 21.72

…Minister Ahmad Vahidi, the new Qiam-1 liquid-fueled ballistic missile marks an advance in countermeasures against ballistic missile defenses. Vahidi: He explained that the missile is equipped with a smart navigation…

 

No Shoot Down

Jeffrey Lewis | Aug 29, 2011 | Relevancy Score: 21.3

…in a missile defense role. “Theoretically, AMRAAM can intercept Scud missiles in flight,” an Air Force official told Defense Daily in 1992,”but the shooter has to be so well located…

 

Missile Defense Errata

Jeffrey Lewis | Sep 29, 2004 | Relevancy Score: 21.3

…in advance of the (now delayed) stand-up of the system entitled “Mission Not Accomplished: Missile Defense Slated for 2004 Deployment Ignores Technical Reality.” But these suggest missile defense is merely…

 

Repliable Replacement Warheads

Stephen Young | Aug 10, 2005 | Relevancy Score: 21.3

…of Congress is thinking. The House put extensive language in the Defense Authorization bill trying to get some clarity about what the program would actually do. The language sets out…

 

Britain Increases Its Defense Spending and Shortchanges Its Future

Michael Krepon | Mar 22, 2021 | Relevancy Score: 21.3

…Minister Boris Johnson has proposed significant increases in defense spending to cover both nuclear and non-nuclear military expenditures. If past is prologue, future defense budgets will be sorely skewed toward…

 

North Korean WMD: A Guide to Online Resources

Joshua Pollack | May 22, 2017 | Relevancy Score: 20.28

…primary missile-building complex, at least for liquid-fueled missiles. Joshua Pollack, “Ballistic Trajectory: The Evolution of North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Market,” Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, July 2011. Pretty much…

 

Russian INF Compliance

Jeffrey Lewis | Dec 01, 2013 | Relevancy Score: 20.28

…defenses. The Sary Shagan test range in Central Asia, to which missiles were launched during the tests in question, has been engaged in missile defense research since at least 1960s,…

 

Exhaustion and Inflection: Estimating Interceptor Expenditures in the Israel-Iran Conflict [UPDATED]

Sam Lair | Jun 24, 2025 | Relevancy Score: 20.28

…missile defense insights we can draw from this conflict. This initial analysis begins to outline the difficulty of defense under persistent, large scale missile attack. [This post was updated June…