Very-long-range, high-speed strike weapons could be very valuable for the Navy's carrier air wings, especially as potential near-peer adversaries, such as China and Russia, continue to develop and field increasingly longer-range and otherwise more capablesurface-to-air missile systemsand associated...
President Vladimir Putin has warned that allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles would put NATO “at war” with Russia. The Russian president said it would “significantly change” the nature of the Ukraine conflict and amount to “nothin...
The U.S. may want to "re-MIRV" its ICBMs and regain a conventional, more than 1,500 mile long-range strike weapon lost when the Air Force decommissioned its Boeing [BA] AGM-86C/D Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missiles (CALCM) in 2019, Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton, the head of...
LRASM brings additional, advanced long-range sea and land strike capabilities to the 5th Generation F-35 fleet, with initial fit checks completed and ongoing integration efforts. LRASM technology will reduce dependence on ISR platforms, network links, and GPS navigation in aggressive electronic warfare...
The U.S. refused to confirm that the long-range missiles had been delivered until they were actually used on the battlefield and Kyiv leaders approved the public release. One official said the weapons were used last week to strike the airfield in Dzhan...
The uptick in attacks since July comes as Ukraine mounts pressure on allies to allow it to use long-range missiles to strike targets in Russia. Western allies, in particular the U.S., have so far resisted, fearing escalation from Moscow. ...
Ukraine has sought to balance the long-range strike gap throughout the war by launching explosive-laden propeller drones at targets up to 1,000 km inside Russia. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was at Friday's ceremony, said last month that Ukraine was developing four di...
Ukraine used U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike at Russian airbases in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine on Tuesday after the U.S. secretly shipped variants of the Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in recent weeks, according to U.S. officials. ...
Russia launched a barrage of missiles at Ukraine Thursday in its first major retaliation for Ukraine's attack earlier in the week on a military facility in the Russian region of Bryansk. That strike saw the Ukrainians use American-made and supplied long-range missiles known as ATACMS, which...
Ukraine also possesses the French-British-made Storm Shadow missile, which has a range of around 250 kilometers (155 miles), shy of the range of ATACMS. The United Kingdom and France have also denied Ukraine permission to strike targets inside Russia, although they have been used to target...