Navy Puts Carrier Under NATO Control As Russian Ships Converge On The Mediterranean
NATO says the Mediterranean exercise shows key alliance capabilities amid Russia’s aggressive actions toward Ukraine.
Tag: Deterrence
Secret Space Force Capabilities Could Be Declassified If New Bill Becomes Law
Less classification could help Space Force deter attacks on space-based systems and make it easier to promote its mission-critical work.
U.S. Satellites Are Being Attacked Every Day According To Space Force General
Space Force general details how jamming, blinding lasers, cyber attacks, and other satellites have America’s space-based capabilities under siege.
U.S. Navy Ballistic Missile Submarine’s Gibraltar Visit Is First In Over Two Decades
The Navy has shared some additional details about USS Alaska’s very rare stopover, which comes amid a flurry of naval activity in the region.
American Ballistic Missile Submarine Makes Rare Stop In Gibraltar
USS Alaska’s highly unusually port visit in the Mediterranean is just the most recent curiously public appearance by one of the Navy’s ‘boomers.’
How China’s Ballistic Missile And Nuclear Arsenal Is Ballooning According To The Pentagon
Beyond rapidly growing its ballistic missile force, the report says China could double its nuclear stockpile in the coming years.
U.S. Army To Execute Its Most Massive European Deployment Exercise In 25 Years
The exercise will test the Army’s ability to rapidly deploy to Europe in a crisis and will serve as a glaring warning to Moscow.
U.S. Says Russia Might Be Setting Off Very Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons On This Arctic Island
The U.S. government says that Russia may be conducting low-yield nuclear testing at a remote site above the Arctic Circle in violation of its obligations under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, or CTBT. The allegation comes at a time when arms control deals between the two countries appear especially fragile. At the same time, the two nuclear-armed nations are actively working to modernize and diversify their arsenals.
The Air Force Found Airmen Boozing It Up In A Nuclear Missile Alert Facility In Wyoming
The U.S. Air Force has slapped a pair of airmen with administrative punishments after discovering they were drinking inside a missile alert facility at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. The base is home to some 150 LGM-30G Minuteman III nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, one of three ICBM fields that make up one leg of the United States’ nuclear deterrent triad.
F-35A Pictured On “Deterrence Mission” Over Middle East With Peculiar Single Missile Loadout
The F-35A flying with just one air-to-air missile externally while on a “deterrence mission” is just another tiny piece of an increasingly puzzling set of circumstances regarding the sudden need for the U.S. to deter Iranian aggression.