Tehran has fired at least 180 missiles at Israel in response to latter’s strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah. Israel has vowed retaliation, complicating security situation in West Asia.
Russia claims missile can reach eight times the speed of sound. If true, it would be the ‘fastest missile in the world’, could evade the advanced US Patriot air defence system.
The 55-year-old Alexander Shiplyuk, the director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, was arrested by the FSB.
Hypersonic missiles are all the buzz in defence technology, and India is developing them too, but is the bombastic rhetoric around their ‘invincibility’ justified?
The 'copybook flight' from supersonic fighter aircraft Sukhoi 30 MK-I Wednesday off the Odisha coast followed the pre-planned trajectory & met all objectives, according to DRDO.
The general understanding is that hypersonic missiles will beat and undermine the ballistic missile defence systems, a serious international security concern.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley's comments are the most significant acknowledgment by a US official of reports that China conducted possibly two hypersonic weapons tests.
According to the report, India collaborated with Russia to develop BrahMos II and is reportedly developing an indigenous, dual-capable hypersonic cruise missile.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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