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Defense News (unfortunately, no link) has an article providing some additional detail on Chinese efforts to develop an anti-ship ballistic missile. The platform appears to be a DF-21 MRBM (Medium.
Identify the major vessels (by class) in this photo.Postcard courtesy of W. Walter Rule, Jr., ACOM (ret) and Kelly M. Rule.
Having determined that the DDG-1000 has minimal military value, the Navy and Congress have decided to compromise on three, rather than zero, of the remarkably expensive but utility-challenged vessels. Democracy.
Defense News has a good article on the Navy's decision to end pursuit of the DDG-1000, although much will be familiar to readers of Information Dissemination. The story notes the.
Cernig:The head of the Missile Defense Agency, General Trey Obering, has previously justified the massive expense and foreign policy jeopardy of placing land-based anti-missile facilities in Eastern Europe on the.
It looks as if procurement of the DDG-1000, also known as the DD(X) or Zumwalt class destroyer, may end at 2. The $2.5 billion ship is designed to attack land.
Draw your own conclusions, write your own captions.
Hans Kristensen has a good post on the inactivity of Russian SSBNs:The number of deterrence patrols conducted by Russia’s 11 nuclear-powered ballistic missiles submarines (SSBNs) decreased to only three in.