What’s New Vietnam and the Philippines are nearing a $700 million deal for BrahMos cruise missiles, WION reported Sunday, at a time of maritime tensions with China. Why It Matters If finalized, Vietnam will become the second nation in the region after the Philippines to acquire the difficult-to-intercept supersonic missiles, which were jointly developed India…
What’s New China’s Navy has significantly closed the gap with its U.S. counterpart in vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells, now boasting more than half the U.S. Navy’s total, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Why It Matters Vertical launch systems, introduced on U.S. Navy ships in the 1980s, are modular compartments…
Shocking! Lawyer rams Mercedes car into Kachori shop in Delhi, Six injured In a shocking incident, six people were injured after a lawyer rammed his speeding Mercedes car into a Kachori shop in the national capital. The incident took place at Fateh Kachori in Civil Lines area. The police have taken the lawyer into custody…
Russian forces launched a powerful aerial strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Friday, firing 93 missiles and nearly 200 drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced. Zelensky described the attack as one of the heaviest to date. He said it was part of Russia’s ongoing campaign to destroy Ukraine’s energy grid. He added that Ukrainian air…
Overall, the front lines of Syria’s civil war have been stagnant since 2020, although there have been fierce episodic clashes. For the past four years, Assad has controlled much of the country and its largest cities; a Turkey-tolerated, HTS-led alliance of mostly Islamist rebels have remained squeezed in an enclave in Idlib and parts of…
And unlike others in Trump’s MAGA circle, Kellogg welcomed President Joe Biden’s decision to approve Ukraine’s use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia, saying it has given Trump “more leverage” and adding that “it gives President Trump more ability to pivot from that.” Contrast that with the howls of protest over the…
It was correct to place the recent article about the latest missile attack on Ukraine on the front page (“Russia’s use of new missile prompts emergency NATO Ukraine talks,” Nov. 23). Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bellicose foreign policy has caused much consternation and his threats to use nuclear weapons cause even more concern. Since 2014,…
China has renewed its warnings over the potential use of nuclear weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war, in response to recent speculation about the possibility of the U.S. stationing them in the embattled country to deter future Russian aggression. “China is paying close attention to the nuclear risks triggered by the Ukraine crisis and has reiterated…
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, photos on Sunday show the wreckage of Moscow’s new experimental missile which was test launched on Thursday and struck a factory in Ukraine. The war has raged on for more than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022. Although Moscow…
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Sunday fired around 160 projectiles into Israel, targeting the capital, Tel Aviv, and a naval base in the southern part of the country, news agency AFP quoted. An Israeli bomb squad policeman carries the remains of a rocket that was fired from Lebanon in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel Sunday…