Monday’s Roll-up of Naval/Missile News

India and Israel – Joint Medium-Range Naval SAM Development:        Following in the footsteps of a February announcement of joint development of a naval long-range surface-to-air missile comes the announcement that a medium-range variant will also be jointly developed. As with the long-range variant, the MR version will be based on the Israeli-developed Barak…

Missile Defense 101 – ICBM Fundamentals

  In order to accurately discuss ballistic missile defense we need to ensure a common base understanding of the fundamentals – the physics, technology and classification of ballistics missiles and their flight regime. Definition – Ballistic Missile: A missile that is guided (powered) in the ascent portion of a high arch-trajectory and freely falling in…

Russian FM on US Missile Defense Plan and Europe

Well, we’ve heard from Putin, Ivanov and Baluyevsky and now the Foreign Minister weighs in via an article published in London’s Financial Times yesterday under the title “A crucial debate on Europe’s anti-missile defences.” (read the full article here) Several points are laid out which may be taken as the official Russian position and of…