Cruise Missiles

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Land-based missile batteries can threaten ships dozens or even hundreds of miles away. On July 12, 2018, the USS Racine met her grisly fate. The...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Cheap 747s converted to carry long-range cruise missiles and shorter-range munitions alike already have the endurance needed for continent-spanning missions. During the Cold War, Boeing...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Typhoon-class submarines are Cold War behemoths. On April 20, 2019, Russia’s TASS Agency reported that Vice Admiral Oleg Burtsev announced Russia’s intention to take two of...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But for a short window of time, the United States seemed to be in need of a heavy-payload aircraft that had enough endurance to cross...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: At nine in the morning on August 8, 2019, an explosion resonated across the cold waters of the arctic White Sea. A missile had exploded...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Undoubtedly, Horten’s missile was revolutionary. It also promised to be very, very expensive. Argentina was almost the first country to develop a small, supersonic cruise...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The missile is likely a variant of Ukraine’s “Neptune” naval cruise missile. While details on the origin of the missile vary (Ukrainian sources insist that...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Iran has a history of unveiling wonder weapons that aren’t so wonderful. The newest Iranian weapon, the Mobin, was displayed at the MAKS 2019...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Based on research done by Russian experts, Russian forces forward deployed at the Ukrainian border only slightly outnumber Ukrainian troops that could be facing them...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Tehran likes to talk a big game. The newest Iranian weapon, the Mobin, was displayed at the MAKS 2019 defense trade show in Russia in...

On April 13, the United States Department of Defense Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced that the Department of State approved two foreign military sales of naval weapons to the...

There is a growing controversy in Washington over the Pentagon’s plans to develop a new nuclear-armed cruise missile.  The new missile, termed the Long Range Stand Off weapon (LRSO), is...