Analysts have discovered more than 100 new missile silos in China’s northwestern desert region. The silos are the largest expansion of China’s nuclear weapons program in recent history. The real question: How many missiles are slated to go into the silos? Sharp-eyed analysts studying commerci...
Cruise missiles have an 8.5-foot (2.61-meter) wingspan, are powered by turbofan engines and can fly 500 to 1,000 miles (805 to 1,610 km) depending on the configuration. A cruise missile's job in life is to deliver a 1,000-pound (450-kg) high-explosive bomb to a precise location...
Think of them as the unmanned, rocket-plane equivalents of cruise missiles, or as very violent Domino's pizza drivers (no refunds for deliveries taking longer than 30 minutes) [sources: DARPA; Weinberger]. Unfortunately, DARPA's HTV-2 second test, like its first, began with loss of contact...
Israel had defeated virtually the entire attack, swatting cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, rockets, and drones from the sky. And that was by design. More From Popular Mechanics The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported...
Americans died in Kenya in the embassy attacks and 200 other people died, a good number of them were Muslims. The US didn't use that propaganda advantage. President Clinton tried to respond aggressively. He launched cruise missiles at Al-Qaeda training camps, which wer...
military dropped cruise missiles on Afghanistan, targeting al-Qaida camps. [Pictured: U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright looks at the U.S. embassy in Dar Es Salaam after the bombing] 1999: Kosovo Force Helene C. Stikkel // Wikicommons 1999: Kosovo Force - Army strength: 477,788 ...
Tehran launched over 300 projectiles at Israel in an unprecedented attack on the Jewish strike. Israeli officials said 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles were launched. Iran claimed the barrage was in response to an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate Damascus, Syria, wh...
There are two main types of hypersonic weapon systems currently. Hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) are launched from a rocket, probably an existing ICBM, before gliding down to a target. Hypersonic cruise missiles are powered by high-speed, air-breathing engines, also known as scramjets,...
Oil rigs like the Deepwater Horizon exploded, cruise ships like the Costa Concordia crashed into the rocks, Fukushima leaked nuclear waste and mines collapsed in Chile. I, as the author of “Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster” was asked to enter a speaking com...
Meanwhile, Israel operates a range of systems to block attacks from everything from ballistic missiles with trajectories that take them above the atmosphere to low-flying cruise missiles and rockets. Israel’s Iron Dome system has been in the headlines often since the country began its military ...