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Finally, some good news for MDA?

Victoria Sampson | Jun 23, 2006 | Relevancy Score: 33.03

The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA), much-beleaguered about the status of the missile defense system designed to protect the United States against missile attacks, can finally report good news. Sort…

 

The More You KN-0w About North Korean Missiles

Scott LaFoy | Jul 31, 2017 | Relevancy Score: 31.86

…around online? Frustratingly, they all refer to the same missile — North Korea’s ICBM prototype first seen in 2012. Let me explain: the DPRK designates several of its missiles as…

 

Is a Third Trade for Missile Defenses Possible?

Michael Krepon | Aug 05, 2021 | Relevancy Score: 31.86

…of making nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete” by means of futuristic missile defenses. His beloved Strategic Defense Initiative triggered every Soviet neuron that feared U.S. technological leapfrogging. Mikhail Gorbachev was…

 

Robert S. McNamara, Arms Control Hero

Michael Krepon | May 06, 2019 | Relevancy Score: 31.25

…actually served McNamara’s purposes: it helped convince the Kremlin to strictly limit U.S. and Soviet missile defense deployments in the SALT I negotiations. Limiting missile defenses was insufficient to prevent…

 

Air-Launched Cruise Missiles in Uiju, DPRK.

Scott LaFoy | Oct 04, 2020 | Relevancy Score: 30.41

…cruise missiles, particularly its  air-launched cruise missiles, which are quietly tested without much announcement and no camera coverage. It is unclear if this is due to their strategic value or…

 

Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Dyad

Jeffrey Lewis | Jul 15, 2013 | Relevancy Score: 30.41

  Sean O’Connor has a really great article on Saudi Arabia’s missile force in Jane’s Intelligence Review (“Saudi ballistic missile site revealed“) that nicely updates his 2009 blog post on…

 

The Belated Consequences of Killing the ABM Treaty

Michael Krepon | Mar 07, 2018 | Relevancy Score: 30.41

…Pentagon wasn’t nearly as keen on missile defenses as on pursuing leverage by means of missiles carrying multiple warheads. Democrats on Capitol Hill dug in their heels against missile defenses….

 

Why The Navy Should Retire TLAM-N

Jeffrey Lewis | Dec 13, 2009 | Relevancy Score: 28.97

…Attack Missile (TLAM) is a cruise missile that can be launched from US Navy ships and submarines. The missile was initially deployed in the 1980s. The original nuclear variant has…

 

Sokov on Russian Cruise Missiles

Jeffrey Lewis | Aug 25, 2015 | Relevancy Score: 28.97

…part of systems known as Klub-S (for submarines), Klub-N (for ships), and Klub-M (land-based anti-ship missiles for coastal defense); Novator also offers a Club-A system for aircraft. All these missiles…

 

Identifying DPRK Machine Plants

Jeffrey Lewis | Jan 17, 2019 | Relevancy Score: 28.97

…the Scud short-range ballistic missile, Pukguksong-2 medium-range ballistic missile, and Kumsong-3 coastal defense cruise missile.A vehicle proving ground was constructed 4.5 km away. The proving ground previously hosted an ejection…