US Defense Companies Are Scrambling To Meet China's Low Low Arms Prices (RTN)
China has pushed its defense spending to record highs as it builds a global force from the ground up.The communist country has leapfrogged past advancements that took Western nations decades to perfect...
View ArticleUS And South Korean Military Send A Clear Message To Pyongyang
North Korea's recent nuclear test incurred the standard international handwringing that follows most of what Pyongyang pulls off in that corner of the world. But once international leaders stepped from...
View ArticleThis Is The US Missile No Ship Will See Coming Until It's Too Late
The U.S. Navy has this problem where sinking a ship far away requires all manner of mathematical genius, and extraordinary luck, that really does no more than illuminate its limited strike reach in the...
View ArticleNorth Korean Kids Dance With Smiling Rocket To Celebrate Lunar New Year
Americans have Barney the dancing dinosaur, North Koreans have the dancing smilingTaepo-Dong II rocket.Yes, during North Korea's lunar year celebration, Feb. 10, kids danced with the DPRK's newest,...
View ArticleHere's What We Know About What North Korea Can Hit
Despite North Korea's highly-publicized missile tests, relatively little is known about the actual size and capabilities of its arsenal.The regime is understood to have substantial numbers of short-...
View ArticleANALYST: US Military Expects North Korean Missile Launch
Enough bluster: Apparently Kim Jong-Un intends to walk the walk.A prominent arms analyst has told an Australian think-tank that U.S. troop movements west of the peninsula indicate that a North Korean...
View ArticleUS Official Says North Korea Could Launch Missile Soon
Officials close to the Obama administration are saying that a North Korean missile launch is likely to happen soon.Barbara Starr of CNNreports that "the most recent intelligence showing it is likely...
View ArticleIran Claims To Have Tested Cutting Edge Rocket, Offers No Evidence
Days before a big military ceremony, Iran has made more unverified claims of new missile technology.Iran says it has successfully tested a cutting edge surface-to-surface medium range rocket with...
View ArticlePentagon: North Korea Is Moving Closer To Having A Long-Range Nuclear Missile
North Korea "will move closer" to developing a long-range nuclear missile that can strike the US, according to the Pentagon's latest assessment.In a report to Congress released Thursday, the US Defense...
View ArticleWhy North Korea Never Actually Launched That Rocket
Just a few weeks ago, analysts and experts were trumpeting the inevitability of North Korea's next rocket launch.The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) "neared the danger line," U.S. Defense...
View ArticlePiracy, Prisoners, And Missiles: North Korea Had A Busy Weekend
Like an attention-seeking toddler, albeit one with nuclear weapons, North Korea rarely allows much time to go by without some destructive antics. As of this weekend, the unpredictable country appears...
View ArticleNorway Has A Powerful New Ship-Killing Missile [VIDEO]
Norwegian defense contractor, Kongsberg, has a new ship-killing missile that can deliver a 275-pound high explosive warhead from more than 100 miles away.The Naval Strike Missile blurs the line between...
View ArticlePortable Missiles Capable Of Taking Out An Airliner Have Leaked Into Mali
TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class.Except that the students in this case were...
View ArticleNASA's Latest Rocket Launch Heralds A New Industrial Revolution
NASA's latest rocket test normally wouldn't be big news, except for how a portion of that rocket came to be.Ryan Whitwham of Geek.com captured the idea in just a headline: "NASA's 3D Printed Rocket...
View ArticleEven Tony Stark Would Be Impressed With Raytheon's Slow Motion Missile Video
Okay, it's not technically a missile, but the munition— an artillery projectile — certainly looks like a missile.Raytheon's assertion that"Analyses have shown that on average it takes at least 10...
View ArticleThe US Successfully Tested An Incredible Anti-Ship Missile Today
The U.S. military's revolutionary new anti-ship missile flew its first successful test flight today, according to a release from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). What the U.S....
View ArticleWe Seriously Need To Stop Calling Them All 'Drones'
They deliver sushi. They film cool videos. They capture the world's greatest hippie festivals. They even perform search and rescue missions that would otherwise be completed by a St. Bernard with a...
View ArticleStunning Images Capture The Instant A Laser-Guided Bomb Demolishes A Speed Boat
On Sept. 4, the 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron sent a solo B-1B over the Gulf of Mexico and its sea ranges to prove the concept that Lancers (or “Bones” as the swing wing bombers are dubbed) can be...
View ArticleThe US Navy Just Uploaded The Sickest Slo-Mo Video Of A Ballistic Missile...
The U.S. Navy recently conducted a test of its Aegis missile defense system off the coast of Hawaii.The USS Erie launched the missile, which intercepted the "most sophisticated target to date," reports...
View ArticleIran Has Unveiled Two New Indigenous Air-To-Surface Missiles
On Sept. 25, Iran’s Defense Minister, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan together with a group of high-ranking air force officers unveiled the Qader and Nasr, two new indigenous air-to-surface...
View Article