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  • US May Include Long-Range Missiles in Ukraine Aid Package — Axios

    07/14/2025 2:41:50 AM PDT · by RandFan · 87 replies
    militarnyi ^ | July 14 | Oleksandr Yan
    The United States is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine that may include long-range missiles capable of reaching Moscow, Axios reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. President Donald Trump is reportedly overhauling his administration’s approach to supporting Ukraine, with plans to authorize the delivery of offensive weapons for the first time since taking office. The new package is expected to be announced on Monday. Trump told reporters the weapons, funded by European countries, would include “various units of very advanced military equipment,” such as Patriot air defense systems. Two sources told Axios that the package might also...
  • BREAKING: Now Trump moves to deport veteran Belfast republican Gabe Megahey

    07/12/2025 4:15:50 AM PDT · by 11th_VA · 43 replies
    https://belfastmedia.com ^ | July 11, 2025 | Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
    Gabe Megahey (82), one of a group of Irish republicans known as the "deportees" who had been allowed by President Clinton to remain in America, has been ordered to leave the United States by way of a letter from the Department of Homeland Security. Others in the group, which includes Belfast H-Block escapees Terence Kirby and Kevin Barry Artt who live openly in California, seem, so far, not to have attracted the attention of the US authorities. In 1983, Gabe Megahey was convicted in an FBI sting of trying to procure SAM missiles to enable the IRA to step up...
  • Ukraine arrests Chinese father and son, both accused of spying

    07/10/2025 5:54:47 AM PDT · by OldHarbor · 3 replies
    Reuters ^ | 10 July 2025 | Dan Peleschuk
    KYIV, July 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Wednesday it had detained a Chinese father and son, both suspected of spying on its prized Neptune anti-ship missile programme, a key part of Kyiv's growing domestic arms industry critical to its defence against Russian invaders. The announcement by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) follows assertions by Kyiv in recent months that Beijing, which has sought to project an image of neutrality, is helping the Kremlin's war effort.
  • US Army multiplies PAC-3 MSE missile production by four to support long-term air defense strategy.

    07/09/2025 12:06:29 PM PDT · by george76 · 3 replies
    Defense News Army ^ | 9 Jul, 2025
    The U.S. Army’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget request includes the acquisition of 233 PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors, scaling up PAC-3 MSE procurement by a factor of four to close the munitions gap in active theaters. The 233 missiles are funded through a combination of sources: 130 from base discretionary accounts and 103 from the Overseas Operations Cost (OOC) budget. An additional 96 interceptors are covered by $366 million in mandatory reconciliation authority, which is additive to the 233 previously mentioned. The combined total requested for FY2026 is $1.311 billion, consisting of $945.9 million in discretionary funding and $366...
  • Patriot Missiles and Geopolitical Tensions: A Boom for Defense Firms?

    07/05/2025 5:30:02 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 19 replies
    AInvest ^ | 7-5-25 | Rhys Northwood
    The war in Ukraine has thrust advanced air defense systems like the Patriot missile into the spotlight, creating a unique confluence of geopolitical urgency and defense sector opportunity. As Russia's relentless drone and missile strikes escalate, Ukraine's reliance on Western military aid has exposed both the strategic importance of advanced air defense systems and the fragile global supply chains supporting their production. For investors, this dynamic presents a compelling narrative of growth for defense contractors—but also risks tied to production bottlenecks and shifting geopolitical alliances. The Demand Surge: Patriots as the New “Must-Have” Asset The U.S. decision to pause Patriot...
  • “Biden Emptied Out Our Whole Country Giving Them Weapons!” – Trump Goes Off on Biden For Depleting US’s Munitions Stockpiles

    07/03/2025 8:16:15 PM PDT · by Kazan · 51 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Jul. 3, 2025 | by Cristina Laila
    President Trump went off on Joe Biden for emptying out the US’s munitions stockpiles. TGP reported earlier this week that the Pentagon is halting some weapons shipments to Ukraine after it was revealed that Joe Biden depleted the US stockpiles.The Trump Administration is withholding shipments promised by the Biden Regime after the Pentagon’s policy chief Elbridge Colby found the US’s stockpiles of munitions and air defense missiles are dangerously low.Joe Biden sent billions of dollars to Ukraine and now the US’s total number of artillery rounds, air defense missiles and precision munitions are sinking.' Biden sent Ukraine as much money...
  • Obama administration knew about North Korea's miniaturized nukes

    08/09/2017 6:47:25 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 18 replies
    Fox News Opinion ^ | August 9, 2017 | Fred Fleitz
    During an April 11, 2013, House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., inadvertently revealed several unclassified sentences from a DIA report that said DIA had determined with “moderate confidence” that North Korea has the capability to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be launched with a ballistic missile. The Director of National Intelligence and Obama officials subsequently tried to dismiss Lamborn’s disclosure by claiming the DIA assessment was an outlier that did not reflect the views of the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community.....
  • Starmer to give missiles to Ukraine paid for with £70m interest on Russian assets

    06/25/2025 8:30:31 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 18 replies
    The Guardian ^ | June 25, 2025 | Aletha Adu
    Keir Starmer has announced a fresh package of military aid for Ukraine – this time paid for using the UK’s interest haul from frozen Russian assets. The UK will send 350 advanced air defence missiles, built in Britain and adapted in record time for ground launch, using £70m of interest raised through the government’s extraordinary revenue acceleration (ERA) scheme. The move marks the first time the UK has used Russia-linked funds to directly bankroll weaponry for Kyiv. The missiles will be deployed through UK-supplied Raven systems – five more of which are en route to Ukraine, taking the total to...
  • Iran Fires 30 Missiles At Israel After U.S. Destroys Iranian Nuclear Facilities, 25 Injured

    06/22/2025 4:58:17 AM PDT · by jonatron · 40 replies
    Yeshiva World News ^ | June 22, 2025
    Five hours after the United States announced the destruction of Iranian nuclear sites, Iran launched two missile salvos targeting Israel – the first such attack in more than 30 hours. A total of at least 27 missiles were fired in the attack, with impacts recorded in Haifa and across central Israel. According to IDF assessments, the first barrage consisted of 22 missiles, followed by a second with five more. Following the attack, Magen David Adom teams treated and transported victims. Twenty-five people were rushed to hospitals, including a man in his 30s in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds to his...
  • “We Had One Last Shot — We Took It”: IDF Chief Reveals Israel’s Last-Minute Total War Order

    06/21/2025 5:47:26 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 22 replies
    jfeed ^ | JUN 20, 2025 | Yair Kleinbaum
    Dramatic revelations confirm that the launching of a full-scale military campaign against Iran was made "at the last possible moment" - under growing pressure from intelligence warnings. Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir addressed the Security Cabinet on the eve of the attack, presenting the final operational plans. Several cabinet members reportedly heard the details for the first time during that meeting.... Security officials estimate Iran currently possesses around 2,000 ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israel’s home front - a figure that could have doubled within a year due to Iran's accelerating production. Another major achievement has been the...
  • Ukraine’s DEEP STRIKE Takes Out BRAINS of Russia's WAR Machine

    06/10/2025 8:22:07 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 48 replies
    Ukraine just struck deep into Russia, destroying a key electronics factory in Cheboksary that powers Putin’s missiles, drones, and glide bombs. With only two stealth drones, Ukraine crippled a plant essential to Russia’s war machine—impacting everything from missile guidance systems to nuclear sub components. As smoke rises, Ukraine’s message is clear: nowhere is safe.
  • Ukraine’s Cutting-Edge Ballistic Missile Reportedly Enters Combat Use

    06/10/2025 11:00:38 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 62 replies
    United24 Media ^ | Jun 10, 2025 | Vlad Litnarovych
    Ukraine has achieved a breakthrough in its domestic missile program. A new Ukrainian ballistic missile has completed a combat test, striking a Russian command post nearly 300 kilometers from the launch site, military analyst and director of the Center for Army, Conversion, and Disarmament Studies Valentyn Badrak revealed. The missile’s development began in May 2022, with a successful test already conducted in the summer of 2024. According to Badrak, the system is now entering serial production, Badrak stated in a recent interview with Ukrainian news outlet Ukrinform on June 10. “I don’t know how many missiles we can expect per...
  • China’s Chokehold on This Obscure Mineral Threatens the West’s Militaries

    06/09/2025 1:10:19 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 40 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 9, 2025, 11:49 a.m. ET | Keith Bradsher
    China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a rare earth metal that the United States and its allies need to rebuild inventories of fighter jets, missiles and other hardware.China’s strict controls on the export of heat-resistant magnets made with rare earth minerals have exposed a major vulnerability in the U.S. military supply chain.Without these magnets, the United States and its allies in Europe will struggle to refill recently depleted inventories of military hardware.For more than a decade, the United States has failed to develop an alternative to China’s supply of a specific kind of rare earth crucial for the...
  • Russia steps up North Korea support to constrain US

    08/31/2017 1:51:08 PM PDT · by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch · 33 replies
    Deutche Welle ^ | 5-17-2017 | Julian Welle
    Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the country's continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.
  • Ukraine ‘strikes Russian airfields destroying nuke bombers’ in huge drone blitz as footage shows aircraft up in flames

    06/01/2025 5:08:00 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 116 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 6/1/2025 | Will Stewart Harvey Geh
    TWO Russian airfields housing Putin's nuke bombers have reportedly been blitzed in an extraordinary drone strike - wiping out at least 40 aircraft. A Ukrainian security official told Reuters that the SBU conducted a large drone attack on Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers - which Russia uses to fire long-range missiles at Ukraine. The source did not specify where the drone attack took place, but Ukrainian media said that Olenya airbase - home to Russia’s Tu-95 strategic bombers - had been targeted. The second base under fire is understood to be the Belaya nuclear airbase in eastern Siberia’s Irkutsk region...
  • Putin's nuclear files

    05/28/2025 12:23:04 PM PDT · by Redmen4ever · 2 replies
    Der Spiegel ^ | 5/28/25 | Mathias Glistrup and Thomas Gosta Svensson
    Danwatch and Der Spiegel has gained access to hundreds of highly detailed blueprints ...
  • Zelenskyy bound for Berlin with Merz boxed in by German coalition

    05/27/2025 3:26:11 PM PDT · by Mariner · 19 replies
    The Guardian via Yahoo ^ | May 27th, 2025 | Deborah Cole in Berlin
    The German chancellor’s drive to keep a campaign pledge of more robust backing for Ukraine is running into blocks within his own government as he prepares to welcome Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Berlin.Friedrich Merz made a full-throated declaration on Monday, hours before Zelenskyy’s one-day visit was announced, that Germany was for the first time lifting previous range restrictions on weapons supplied to Kyiv, along with Ukraine’s other main western supporters.His statement – in an interview with a public broadcaster, which his team later posted to social media – was widely interpreted as a pivot toward bolstering Berlin’s aid to Kyiv at...
  • Canada Mulling Over "Golden Dome" Participation [semi-satire]

    05/24/2025 10:17:01 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 8 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 25 May 2025 | John Semmens
    US President Trump's announcement of a so-called "Golden Dome" defense system modeled after Israel's "Iron Dome" has created both an opportunity and a dilemma for Canadian Prime Minister Markey Carney. "On the one hand, the diagrams of the 'Golden Dome' show it covering all of North America," Carney observed. "This implies that we could be protected for free. On the other hand, an overt alliance with the United States could make Canada a target of a missile attack from one of the United States' many foreign enemies." "Canada is a weak and inoffensive nation," Carney pointed out. "Switzerland, another weak...
  • US cuts defense ties with Cuba over 'non-cooperation' after harboring terror fugitives

    05/14/2025 1:30:24 AM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    Fox News ^ | Greg Wehner
    The U.S. State Department has determined and certified Cuba as a "not fully cooperating country" (NFCC) for not helping with counterterrorism efforts after the island nation failed to turn over at least 11 fugitives in 2024 to U.S. custody. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce made the announcement on Tuesday that the certification, which falls under Section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act, will result in the prohibition on the sale or license for export of defense services to Cuba. "In 2024, the Cuban regime did not fully cooperate with the United States on counterterrorism," Bruce said in a statement....
  • “Israel could stop only five out of 200 missiles”: Iran boasts its new advanced weaponry

    05/05/2025 5:19:34 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 52 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 5/5/25
    Iran asserts it has stationed missiles nationwide capable of dodging American defense systems. As reported by Iran International, the country this week unveiled a new ballistic missile named Qasem Basir, with a range of 1,200 kilometers, and warned that American military bases across the Middle East fall within its scope. According to the publication, that was reported in Globes, Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh stated the upgraded missile, powered by solid fuel, was engineered to circumvent modern air defense systems—particularly the American THAAD system, which was recently installed in Israel. Nasirzadeh declared on Iranian state TV that the missile’s improved...