DefenceTalkJapan is considering the deployment of more than 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to increase its ability to counter growing regional threats from China, local newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Sunday. The country plans to upgrade its existing surface-to-ship missiles to extend their range from 100 kilometers (62 miles) to about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), which […]https://www.defencetalk.com/japan-mulls-long-range-missile-upgrades-due-to-china-threat-report-79232/

DefenceTalkPresident Vladimir Putin will on Saturday oversee military drills involving Russian “strategic forces” which will include ballistic and cruise missile launches, the defence ministry said. News of the drills come as Russia announces the pullback of troops from around Ukraine, a force that had driven concerns in the West — particularly Washington — that Moscow […]https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-to-oversee-russian-strategic-missile-drills-77988/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea test-fired a new “long-range cruise missile” over the weekend, state media reported Monday, with the United States saying the nuclear-armed country was threatening its neighbors and beyond. Pictures in the Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a missile exiting one of five tubes on a launch vehicle in a ball of flame, and a missile […]

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkDeveloping and deploying a sea-launched nuclear cruise missile is essential to deter Russia, U.S. officials have said. A recent State Department paper says the new weapon would help fill a gap identified in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review. The United States retired its last nuclear sea-launched cruise missile in 2010 — one of only two […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nuke-sea-launched-cruise-missile-would-bolster-deterrence-officials-say-76136/

DefenceTalkBoeing has been awarded two contracts worth more than $2 billion for the delivery of more than 1,000 air-to-surface and anti-ship missiles to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Wednesday. A first contract, worth $1.97 billion, is for the modernization of SLAM ER cruise missiles as well as delivery of 650 new missiles “in support of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/boeing-to-deliver-slam-er-missiles-to-saudi-75528/

DefenceTalkSeoul: North Korea fired several suspected cruise missiles Tuesday towards the sea, according to the South’s military, with analysts saying Pyongyang was demonstrating the breadth of its arsenal. The “multiple projectiles” fired from Munchon in the east of the country were believed to be “short-range cruise missiles”, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-multiple-suspected-cruise-missiles-75141/

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Indian Air Force (IAF) and BrahMos jointly successfully conducted two BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles tests today, one each from land and air platforms. The first missile launch was from a land based mobile launcher, where most of the components were indigenous, including the missile airframe, fuel management system and […]

At the moment, the country is using several types of early-warning radars, providing long-distance monitoring of airspace against ballistic missile attacks. The military reportedly plans to replace older systems with Voronezh by 2020. Russian will create an all-round radar field to cover its borders, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday. According to the statement, […]

DefenceTalkRussia has rejected the U.S. demand for the elimination of the 9M729 cruise missile, as the two countries continue a spat over the INF Treaty. Speaking at a briefing on the 9M729 missile, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, “The US delegation arrived in Geneva for inter-departmental consultations over the INF Treaty with the sole […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-rejects-us-demands-on-9m729-missile-elimination-72083/

DefenceTalkRussia’s cutting-edge frigate Admiral Gorshkov has destroyed a target with a Kalibr cruise missile at a distance of 700 km in the Barents Sea drills, the Northern Fleet’s press office reported on Thursday. “The combat exercise was performed at one of the Northern Fleet’s combat training ranges in the Barents Sea. The missile was launched […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-cutting-edge-frigate-live-fires-cruise-missiles-in-barents-sea-drills-71976/