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Flightdeck Friday: Vergeltungswaffe Attack

BySteeljawscribe 5 March 20095 March 2009

Continuing our theme from yesterday (Pillars of BMD), the objects of Operation CROSSBOW’s attention:

V-2:

V-1

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Nuclear weapons

ÐšÑ€Ð°ÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Ð·Ð²ÐµÐ·Ð´Ð° Ð²Ñ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð½Ð¸Ðº: Red Star Tuesday – Stability 2008
BySteeljawscribe 14 October 200813 October 2008

“Stability 2008” the exercise that (if you believe Russian sources) signals Russia’s return to preeminence as a global military power, continues.Â Over the past weekend we witnessed a number of Russian ICBM and SLBM tests in conjunction with “Stability 2008.”Â Some of the video reporting for these launches is provided below (h/t Russian Navy Blog):…

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Missile Defense and FY10 DoD Budget
BySteeljawscribe 12 May 200912 May 2009

Coming into this off-cycle budget expectations were that an Administration that had shown, for lack of a better term, restrained enthusiasm, towards missile defense on the campaign trail would seek to shut the program down as part of its cost-saving plans.Â Indeed, with the SECDEF’s announcements on 6 April where some very high profile and…

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Wednesdayâ€™s Roll-up of Missile Items: Conventional TRIDENT gets the axe
BySteeljawscribe 7 February 200728 February 2010

Press Report: No Conventional TRIDENT: Defense News, February 1, 2007. Pressure from Capitol Hill has derailed Pentagon plans to refit nuclear-tipped Trident missiles with conventional warheads, which will force the U.S. military to seek more expensive ways to perform the prompt global strike (PGS) mission. Lawmakers worry that placing conventional warheads on the Tridents could…

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Air Warfare | Joint Warfare | Maritime Strategy | Missile Defense

Stand-up of the Navy Air and Missile Defense Command (NAMDC)
BySteeljawscribe 30 April 200927 February 2010

On Thursday, 30 April 2009, the Navy’s newest Center of Excellence (COE), the Navy Air and Missile Defense Center, was opened for business onboard the Naval Weapons Development Center, Dahlgren Virginia. RADM Brad Hicks, who is also the Aegis BMD program director, will serve as the Center’s first commander until a permanent flag is assigned…

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Airborne HTK – Back From the Precipice?
BySteeljawscribe 17 June 2009

April 2015.Â Over a landscape made all the more surreal by the dim light of a waning moon, an F-22 continues its patrol, the sensors embedded in its skin alive, searching.Â Across the night sky digital datalinks reach out, carrying their payload of data – a threat radar to the east – a Navy EA-18G…

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Geopolitics | Missile Defense

The Missiles of Spring: 2012 Edition
BySteeljawscribe 11 April 201212 April 2012

Stick around any job long enough and pretty soon you’ll find a pattern of repetition or cycles will emerge.Â When on active duty, it was inexorably tied to the CVW turnaround training cycle.Â This year we are now on the threshold of the 3rd North Korean space launch vehicle (SLV) attempt since 2006 and the…

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