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SUMY, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 26: A destroyed car stands in a parking lot after a Russian missile attack on November 26, 2024 in Sumy, Ukraine. According to the acting mayor of Sumy, Artem Kobzar, the Russian army attacked the city with a missile. As a result of the strike, a residential multi-storey building was damaged and a parking lot was destroyed.

Russia Launched The Largest Drone Attack On Ukraine Of The War

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 26, 2024
Ukraine used ATACMS missiles to hit an airbase in Russia for the first time.

ATACMS Hit Airfield In Russia For The First Time

By Howard Altman
Updated on Nov 25, 2024
While it has turned out that the RS-26-based Oreshnik that Russia fired at Ukraine was not a conventionally-armed ICBM, it still highlights the very real interest in, if not more active development and even potential fielding of, a weapon of that kind globally.

Conventionally Armed ICBM Concept Highlighted By Unprecedented Russian Missile Attack On Ukraine

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 22, 2024
Ukraine has used the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for the first time against a target inside Russia. The announcement comes soon after Moscow warned that the use of Western-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine against Russia could trigger a nuclear response, after Russian nuclear war plans were updated.

U.S.-Supplied ATACMS Missile Strike Inside Russia Have Begun

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 19, 2024
Key Trump nominee blasts BIden decision to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS in Russia.

Biden ATACMS Decision Spurs Russian Threats, Hope and Derision Elsewhere

By Howard Altman
Posted on Nov 18, 2024
A new palletized ground-based launcher concept that can be loaded with up to two dozen 227mm guided artillery rockets at a time – four times what an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) can pack at once – recently broke cover.

Mobile Launcher That Can Fire Four Times More Weapons Than HIMARS Emerges

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Nov 13, 2024
The U.S. Army is already interested in scaling down its new Typhon ground-based missile system, if possible, to help make it easier to deploy and operate.

Army Looking To Shrink Typhon Missile System After Lessons Learned From First Deployment

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 15, 2024
Iranian attack on Israeli airbase shows some damage but nothing widespread

Clearer Picture Of Damage To Israeli Airbase From Iranian Ballistic Missiles Emerges

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 4, 2024
Iran-Israel barrage missile

Surreal Missile Battle In The Sky Seen In Astonishing Video Of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Barrage

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 3, 2024
The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committe says he was told by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. will give Ukraine the green light to use ATACMS in Russia.

Ukraine Using ATACMS Missiles To Strike Inside Russia Now On The Table

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 10, 2024
Iranian ground-to-ground Sajil missile launches at an undisclosed location in Iran on November 12, 2008.

Iranian Ballistic Missiles Have Arrived In Russia: Reports

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Sep 7, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that his country has conducted the first successful test of a new domestically-developed ballistic missile.

Ukraine Says It Has Tested A New Domestically-Designed Ballistic Missile

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Aug 27, 2024
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new version of its Sniper targeting pod with added networking capabilities primarily designed to enable new connectivity between fourth-generation fighters and stealthy F-35s, but which also offers the ability to create localized 'kill webs' with various assets in the air and on the ground.

Networked Sniper Pod Will Let 4th-Generation Fighters Create ‘Kill Webs’ With F-35s

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Jul 26, 2024
Ukraine attacked a Russian space communications facility in Crimea.

Ukraine Used Prized ATACMS Missiles To Strike Unique Cold War-Era Space Communications Station

By Howard Altman
Posted on Jun 24, 2024
On June 16, 2024 3d Multi-Domain Task Force and 1-181 Field Artillery Regiment of the Tennessee National Guard employed the U.S. Army Autonomous Multi-Domain Launcher (AML) and the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) as part of the Valiant Shield 24 Combined Joint SINKEX. The AML and PrSm engaged a maritime target alongside other joint assets during the SINKEX. The VS24 SINKEX is the first employment of both the AML and the PrSM outside of the U.S and is a significant milestone in the Army’s continuing development of long-range fires capabilities.

Army’s New PRsM Ballistic Missile Hits Moving Ship For The First Time In Pacific Test

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Jun 24, 2024
The US Army's new Precision Strike Missile might provide the United States a ready path to acquiring an air-launched ballistic missile, a type of weapon that is seeing a renaissance around the world.

Army’s New PrSM Ballistic Missile Should Be Adapted Into An Air Launched Weapon

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Jun 10, 2024