Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem, via Barron’s: Ukraine’s spectacular attacks on Russia’s strategic air fleet on June 1 was a triumph of intelligence capacity. Ukraine is now winning the shadow war with Russia. If Europe and the U.S. support it by actively applying pressure to Russia, Russia may soon be forced to return to […]
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Seth Cropsey, for 19FortyFive: “Summary and Key Points: Hypersonic weapons are becoming a central feature of modern warfare, as North Korea’s recent claims highlight. -The U.S. faces increasing competition from China, Russia, and others fielding hypersonic missiles capable of unpredictable flight paths, threatening traditional missile defenses. -While the U.S. has advanced
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Seth Cropsey for RealClear Defense: At the beginning of this year, North Korea claimed to have tested a hypersonic weapon. While doubts remain about the program’s technical maturity, the North Korean test fits a broader trend: hypersonics are no longer emerging technologies, but a key element of modern military arsenals. Their
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The May 4 shootdown of a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile by a Ukrainian-manned, US-made, Patriot missile system might be seen to indicate that the new class of weaponry is neither invulnerable nor revolutionary, as Russia, US military officials, and many in the media have proclaimed. This lends credence to those who have argued that
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The Jerusalem Post features an article on January 13 that is important in calling attention to the fact that Rotax engines are in Iranian drones, and absurdly wrong on key points. The article is wrong on the company ownership of ROTAX and completely misleading on the question of how the engines got
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