cold war ii

Ukraine doesn’t really have a military application for its access to space, could an ASAT weapon based on an old Soviet missile, commercial rocket, air launch, directed energy, or electronic attack be useful in cutting Russian space assets and forcing them into a better position to face...

In an incredible journey, 3 months after the onset of a new major military phase in the Ukrainian conflict that led the majority of NATO members to strengthen their defenses and augment their readiness with supplementary aircraft and patrols, a lone Piper Aztec, a civilian General Aviation...

That seems to have been an early peek into the KF-51 Panther, a 59 tons version of the KF-41 Lynx armed with 130 mm cannon aimed to replace the Leopard 2. The vehicle will be unveiled at Eurosatory 2022 on June 13th at 14:00 local time...

Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/south-koreans-including-army-captain-allegedly-spied-for-north/6550135.html

Several months after this thread was made North Korea tested cruise missile with range of 1500 kilometers in September of 2021. During late January of 2022 there was test of even longer range cruise missile by North Korea with range of 1800 kilometers. That is more than enough to cover...

https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-and-the-royal-australian-navy-to-partner-on-extra-large-autonomous-undersea-vehicles/

Canada will have its own Space force in 2022: https://spacenews.com/canadas-answer-to-space-force/

More in German. https://www.flugrevue.de/militaer/auftrag-an-polaris-raumflugzeug-demonstrator-fuer-die-bundeswehr/

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Fleet_Space_Technologies_wins_Australian_Government_grant_to_build_space_manufacturing_hub_999.html

Is the Korean system fully indigenous?

The RAF are getting pair of Dassault Falcon 900LX to replace the BAE 146 (slowly retired one has gone into our local Imperial War Museum Duxford last week) at 32 (Royal) Squadron...

According to information published by the South Korean Yonhap News Agency on February 1, 2022, South Korea signed a contract to sell K9 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over US$1.65 billion Citing the information from the South Korean Press agency Yonhap News...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_tests_new_engine_likely_to_power_hypersonic_aircraft_999.html

please no politics, no general discussion news and analytics it's was planned as clear technical aspect topic about weapons shipments and closely related themes Britain said on Monday it had begun supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapons to help it defend itself from a potential invasion...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-first-military-base-on-africas-atlantic-coast-u-s-intelligence-finds-11638726327 Nothing to see here I'm sure.

Incredibly hard to predict and very difficult to defend against, I think any current US anti-ballistic missile system would struggle with FOBS. A hypersonic glide vehicle and FOBS is probably the ultimate in nightmares for the western defence system...

The RNZN has stated they will replace their two Anzac Frigates by the mid 2030s. See page 34 of attached. What do you think are the three most likely designs to be procured and how many? I believe by the 2030s, the deteriorating security situation with China in the Indo-Pacific will incentivize...

Yes we do have one... https://www.industry.gov.au/policies-and-initiatives/australian-space-agency

As someone who followed the various published Western assessments of Soviet Military Power avidly throughout the Cold War I am all too aware of the risks in such evaluation. As various Chinese capabilities are asserted regularly in a range of threads I think it would be timely to discuss the...

I cannot say I had even heard of Havana Syndrome until I saw this posted elsewhere. Or rather I had heard of people being impacted over in Cuba but didn’t know this was what they are calling it...