Missile Defense

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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Missile Defense

Tuesday Roll-up of Missile Issues
BySteeljawscribe 23 January 200728 February 2010

Items of note from around the world today: 1. Chinaâ€™s ASAT test: China admits anti-satellite test: January 24, 2007. BEIJING: China has broken its silence and admitted that it held an anti-satellite test two weeks ago, confirming earlier reports from Washington. But a Foreign Ministry spokesman said China opposed any arms race in space and…

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Geopolitics | history lessons | Missile Defense | Nuclear weapons

New START – “YES”
BySteeljawscribe 20 December 2010

On 13 April 2010, the Presidents of the United States and Russia signed the collection of agreements and protocols which aggregated have been popularly called “New START,” following on the heels of the first START treaty, signed by President Bush and Secretary Gorbachev in July 1991, and the Moscow, signed by Presidents George W. Bush…

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The Problem With Proliferation: Cruise Missile Edition
BySteeljawscribe 24 March 201017 January 2015

March 2011. The still of the pre-dawn darkness is only slightly disturbed by the passage of a container ship. Like the many thousands of others like her plying the ocean’s ways, this one’s cargo is neatly stacked on the deck — ISO shipping containers in a multitude of colors and shippers markings. …

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Escalation Dominance Explained
BySteeljawscribe 16 July 2008

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Flightdeck Friday | Missile Defense | Navy

Flightdeck Friday: A BMD Primer
BySteeljawscribe 3 March 2012

Every now and then I get a chance to reach escape velocity from my day job and do something really fun or different.Â Recently that entailed presenting a BMD overview to a couple of classes that were part of the Naval War College’s Non-Resident Seminar program (of which YHS is a graduate).Â And like any…

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Missile Defense | Nuclear weapons | space

Iran’s Successful Space Launch
BySteeljawscribe 3 February 20093 February 2009

Comes word over night of an apparently successful attempt by Iran to place a satellite in orbitusing the Safir-2 space launch vehicle (SLV).Â The Safir (“Ambassador”) was ingeniously developed as part of Iran’s growing rocket and missile program and has direct links to its attempts to develop extended range missiles in the IRBM and ultimately,…

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