Topline At least six Ukrainian civilians are dead following overnight missile strikes across Ukraine Thursday, with the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant—Europe’s largest—shifting to emergency power as...
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Russia Raises Stakes With Wave Of Hypersonic Missile Attacks On Ukraine
Russia launched a wave of missiles and drones at Ukraine last night in the biggest strike for weeks, again targeting the electricity infrastructure, causing blackouts and civilians deaths at several l...
Putin Likely Supplied Missile System That Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight, Investigators Say
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin likely supplied the anti-aircraft missile system that was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, killing nearly 300 people, according to fin...
Pentagon Warns China Has More Nuclear Missile Launchers Than U.S. But There’s One Big Catch
Maxar satellite imagery of a missile silo being constructed under inflatable domes at a training … [+] area in north-central China. Satellite image (c) 2021 Maxar Technologies. DigitalGlobe/Gett...
President Biden warns that the risk of nuclear ‘Armageddon’ is at its highest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis — 3 top stocks to consider if tensions keep rising
President Biden warns that the risk of nuclear ‘Armageddon’ is at its highest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis — 3 top stocks to consider if tensions keep rising The Fed’s interest rat...
Ex U.K. Leader Boris Johnson Claims Putin Threatened To Kill Him With Missile Before Russia Invaded Ukraine
Topline Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to kill him in a missile strike just weeks before invading Ukraine, a chilling allegation as...
The Russian Helicopters And Missile Systems Iran Might Soon Acquire
Iran expects to receive the first of the 24 Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets it ordered from Russia as soon as Mar. 21, the Persian New Year. Tehran also claims it has ordered helicopters and missile syst...
Ukraine’s Drones Keep Hitting Russia’s Bomber Bases. Now Russian Missile Crews Are Getting Jumpy.
A Russian air force Su-27 in 2016. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian military on Dec. 29 apparently sent more explosives-laden drones to strike a Russian air force base outside Moscow. It was at least t...
Why Russian Officials Are Referencing The Cyprus Missile Crisis
Russian officials have referenced the Cypriot Missile Crisis of the late 1990s in their warnings to Greece about potentially transferring its Russian-built S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine...
Russia’s Best Missile Can Hit Ukrainian Jets From 80 Miles Away. But Ukrainian Pilots Know How To Dodge.
A Russian air force MiG-31. Wikimedia Commons Ukrainian air force pilots have worked out methods for dodging the Russian air force’s far-flying Vympel R-37M air-to-air missiles, according to one Ukrai...
The $1.1 billion Patriot Missile Battery the U.S. Is Sending to Ukraine is Symbolic but Not a Gamechanger
Members of the German Bundeswehr rush toward two Patriot missile launching systems during a press … [+] day presentation at the Luftwaffe Warbelow training center in 2012 in Warbelow, Germany. G...
An Atmospheric Trick May Have Helped A Ukrainian Missile Battery Find And Sink The Russian Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Moskva’ sinking. Via social media In days and weeks after a Ukrainian navy anti-ship missile battery sank the Russian Black Sea Fleet cruiser Moskva on April 13, a lot of rumors circulate...
New British Brimstone 2 Missiles Are Bad News For Russian Tanks, Artillery, Air Defense, Command Posts…
The UK has been supplying Ukraine with Brimstone missiles since April. Yesterday the UK Ministry of Defence officially confirmed what was being unofficially claimed based on imagery, that Ukraine is r...
North Korea Tests Nuclear-Capable Missile With Range To Hit U.S. Mainland, Japan Says
Topline North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) potentially capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to anywhere on the U.S. mainland, Japan’s defense minister reportedly said on F...
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Other Crypto Down After Alleged Russian Missile Hit Poland
Bitcoin and Ether fell together with the majority of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization on Wednesday morning, following reports that Russian missiles killed two people in Poland. Acc...
ETH Lower, as Markets React to Missile Exploding in Poland – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Ethereum moved into the red on Nov. 16, as markets became nervous, following a missile accidentally exploding in Poland. Fears grew of potential escalation in the war between Russia and Ukraine, as th...
What We Know Now About Missile Strike In Poland
When a missile struck a village in Poland yesterday killing two civilians, many social media commentators were quick to declare that this was a Russian attack on a NATO member state and NATO must now ...
North Korea Says Recent Missile Tests Were Practice To Hit U.S. And South Korean Targets
Topline North Korea announced its recent string of missile tests, which resulted in evacuation alarms in parts of South Korea and Japan last week, was practice to strike South Korean and U.S. targets,...
North Korea Missile Launch Triggers Alarm In Japan As U.S. And South Korea Extend Military Drills
Topline North Korea test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) towards its eastern coast on Thursday, triggering alarms across parts of Japan as tension in the region escalates amid ongoi...
Iran Upping Ante By Prepping More Middle East Attacks And Unprecedented Missile Shipment To Russia
Concurrent reports that Iran will launch new attacks against Saudi Arabia and Iraqi Kurdistan while simultaneously preparing missile shipments to Russia for use against Ukraine demonstrate Tehran̵...
Tensions Rise As Both North And South Korea Carry Out Missile Launches
Topline South Korea on Wednesday fired missiles across the country’s de facto maritime border with North Korea after a ballistic missile launched by Pyongyang’s forces landed near its coast, as tensio...
Mar-A-Lago Documents Included Sensitive Information On Iran’s Missile Program: Report
Topline Intelligence documents regarding China and Iran are among the most sensitive files the FBI uncovered in its raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate, the Washington Post repor...
Tayfun Test-Firing Puts Spotlight On Turkey’s Ballistic Missile Program
Turkey’s test-firing of a new short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) over the Black Sea on Oct. 18, 2022, is a reminder that Ankara possesses a significant arsenal of such missiles. It also indica...
Russia Strikes Kyiv Using Iranian Kamikaze Drones—Amid Reports About Moscow’s Dwindling Missile Stocks
Topline Kyiv on Monday was hit by a series of Russian drone strikes in the second major attack on the Ukrainian capital in the past week, as Moscow steps up its usage of cheaper, Iranian-made suicide ...
North Korean Missile Tests Were Simulated Nuclear Attack To ‘Wipe Out’ South Korea, State Media Says
Topline North Korea on Monday said its latest volley of missile tests were designed to simulate a nuclear strike on South Korea, according to state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), escalating te...
Kyiv Hit By Missile Strikes After Putin Blames Ukraine For Crimea Bridge Attack
Topline Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities were hit by a series of missile strikes on Monday morning in an apparent retaliatory attack by Russian forces, a day after Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for an ...
Misfired Missile Stirs Panic As South Korea And U.S. Conduct Drills In Response To North Korea
Topline A South Korean ballistic missile crashed into the ground and exploded in the outskirts of the northeastern city of Gangneung in a failed launch on Tuesday night, as the country’s military cond...
North Korea Fires Rare Missile Over Japan, Prompting Residents To Take Shelter
Topline A North Korean missile flew over Japan before crashing into the Pacific early Tuesday morning, according to the Japanese government, leading residents of some regions to take shelter following...
U.S. Is Sending Ukraine VAMPIRE Systems To Turn Pickups Into Missile Launchers
The U.S. is sending L3 Harris’ civilian vehicle-compatible VAMPIRE missile system to Ukraine to aid … [+] its forces with counter-drone defense and potentially, surface to surface strike. ...
Mobile Missile Teams Striking Fragile Supply Lines
Soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s 14th Mechanized Brigade with a Stugna-P anti-tank missile. Photo via social media Roaming groups of infantry hauling anti-tank missiles, working in the gaps be...
Defense Stocks: Raytheon Misses Rev. On Missile Sales, Expected FY EPS Miss
Defense stocks report second-quarter results this week and Raytheon (RTX) kicked things off premarket Tuesday by extending its impressive streak of earnings surprises. But RTX stock fell roughly 4.5% ...
Ukrainian Missile Crews May Be Creeping Closer To A Key Russian-Held City
The July 19, 2022 shoot-down. Social media capture The Russian air force lost another one of its best fighter planes over Ukraine on Tuesday. The shoot-down of what appears to be a Sukhoi Su-35 could ...