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TASS
April 21, 2018
The convoy of more than 100 wheeled military vehicles includes Tigr infantry mobility vehicles, BTR-82A armored infantry fighting vehicles, Iskander-M mobile short-range ballistic missile systems and YARS intercontinental ballistic missile systems, Pantsir-S and S-400 air defense systems and TyphoonÃâà...
wtvr.com
April 19, 2018
Upon return, reporter told his editors that he was able confirm that Russia signed a deal with Syria to supply Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missiles, MiG-29 fighters and Iskander-E ballistic missiles. Safronov never wrote the article, the newspaper said. His colleagues recall the journalist telling he was warned: ifÃâà...
CNN
April 18, 2018
Upon return, reporter told his editors that he was able confirm that Russia signed a deal with Syria to supply Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missiles, MiG-29 fighters and Iskander-E ballistic missiles. Safronov never wrote the article, the newspaper said. His colleagues recall the journalist telling he was warned: ifÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 11, 2018
The United States conducted subsequent experimentation with ALBMs, including a 1974 flight-test of a Minuteman-I intercontinental-range ballistic missile off a C-5A Galaxy strategic airlifter. Today, the United States uses ALBMs dropped from C-17 Globemasters as target missiles for its tests of missileÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 11, 2018
Anti-ballistic missile systems have improved since the 1980s, but so have Russian missiles. The Iskander-M has a range of 400km, can carry a 700kg warhead of several varieties, and has a circular error probability of around five meters. This makes it deadly to airfields, logistics points, and other stationaryÃâà...
The Drive
April 10, 2018
Regardless of what is used, the train of thought is that Russia will return fire on the launching vessel or vessels by executing an anti-ship missile attack. There have even postings of Flanker derivatives supposedly prowling over Tartus, Syria carrying Kh-35 anti-ship missiles to support this idea. Of courseÃâà...
The Drive
April 3, 2018
This would make HIMARS and MLRS launchers more capable than Russian extended range rocket artillery and their acknowledged ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles, such as Iskander-M, Iskander-K, and Bastion-P, the latter being officially an anti-ship missile, but having demonstrated aÃâà...
RT
April 2, 2018
In February, the Russian military successfully test-fired a new interceptor missile from the Sary Shagan test range. The interceptor was apparently the replacement for the 53T6 short-range anti-ballistic missiles, which serve as part of an ABM shield. In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled anÃâà...
New Straits Times Online
March 28, 2018
WARSAW: Poland signed on Wednesday a US$4.75 billion (€3.8-billion) contract to purchase a US-made Patriot anti-missile system, a move that is likely ... In February, Poland's neighbour and NATO ally Lithuania accused Russia of permanently deploying nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missiles to itsÃâà...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
March 10, 2018
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International Business Times, India Edition
March 9, 2018
The Iskander-M mobile short-range ballistic missile is also known as SS-26 Stone (NATO designation). 2. ... The Iskander-M can be used to destroy both moving and stationary targets, including other missiles, multiple launch rocket systems, long-range artillery guns, aircraft and helicopters at aerodromes,Ãâà...
The Drive
March 2, 2018
U.S. Has Been Secretly Watching Russia's Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missiles Crash and Burn .... An unclassified report on worldwide cruise and ballistic missile programs that the U.S. Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center released in June 2017 makes no mention of a nuclear-poweredÃâà...
The Drive
March 2, 2018
The Iskander and its newest variant, the Iskander-M, are not air breathing missiles. They use solid rocket fueled motors to propel them on their ballistic arcs. Yet Russia claims its new hypersonic missile has a flight profile like that of a cruise missile. All this begs the question is this missile actually anÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 15, 2018
Russia Can Deploy Iskander Missiles in Kaliningrad Without Informing NATO - MP ... MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia will not report to NATO about the deployment of its Iskander ballistic missile systems in its westernmost exclave region of Kaliningrad as there is no reason for that, Vladimir Shamanov, theÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
February 9, 2018
North Korea has paraded elements of what appears to be a new road-mobile short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) system equipped with missiles that are similar in appearance to those that can be used by the Russian 9K720 Iskander-M system. Six apparent transport-erector-launchers (TELs) belonging toÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
December 31, 1999
Kinzhal is a more basic hypersonic weapon and is essentially a heavily modified Iskander short-range ballistic missile launched from a MiG-31 supersonic interceptor. The video blurred out shots of the engine. But as Borisov told Krasnaya Zvezda: “It is probably clear to everyone, from a technical point ofÃâà...
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
According to the video, the Kinzhal appears to be a solid-fuel, air-launched ballistic missile, with visual similarity to Russia's Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile, which is ... Air-launched ballistic missiles have the advantage of depriving adversaries of lower-altitude boost-phase intercept opportunities.
Metro
December 31, 1999
Russia said the missile has already been deployed. Some observers have said it resembles a modified version of an Iskander missile, which is often said to contravene a Cold War treaty banning ballistic missiles with ranges of between 500 and 5500 kilometres. Sutyagin slammed most of Putin's weaponsÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
December 31, 1999
Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly announced the existence of several new nuclear weapons systems, including the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Kanyon long-range nuclear torpedo, a nuclear-powered cruise missile, and the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. AlthoughÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
The Iskander-M is Russian short-range ballistic missile system, equipped with supersonic, guided nuclear-capable missiles which have a range of up to ... The Iskander-M missile launch became the final stage of the tactical drills for Russian servicemen based at the 60th training center for the combat use ofÃâà...
TASS
December 31, 1999
MOSCOW, March 7. /TASS/. Other countries will not be able to design a rival to Russia's Iskander-M mobile short-range ballistic missile systems before 2025, Russian Ground Forces Commander-in-Chief Col. Gen. Oleg Salyukov told the Russian Defense Ministry's official Krasnaya Zvezda daily onÃâà...