Russia


Mar. 22, 2018

Best bad idea ever? Why Putin’s nuclear-powered missile is possible… and awful

Best bad idea ever? Why Putin’s nuclear-powered missile is possible… and awful

Russia’s advanced arms are based onthecutting-edge, unique achievements ofour scientists, designers, andengineers. One ofthem is asmall-scale, heavy-duty nuclear energy unit that can be installed inamissile like our latest X-101 air-launched missile ortheAmerican Tomahawk missile—asimilar type but with arange dozens oftimes longer, dozens—basically anunlimited range. It is alow-flying stealth missile carrying anuclear warhead, with almost anunlimited range, unpredictable trajectory andability tobypass interception boundaries.

Mar. 20, 2018

Telegram forced to give encryption keys to Russian authorities

Telegram forced to give encryption keys to Russian authorities

Telegram, founded by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, has been fighting an effort by the FSB, the state’s security service formerly known as the KGB, which last year demanded that the company hand over its private encryption keys.

Source: zdnet.com

Mar. 5, 2018

Putin’s Hypersonic Weapon Appears to Be a Modified Iskander Ballistic Missile

Putin’s Hypersonic Weapon Appears to Be a Modified Iskander Ballistic Missile

Yesterday’s bizarrely ominous presentation by Russian Vladimir Putin, where he showcased six super weapons that will supposedly give Russia an asymmetric edge over its potential foes—namely the United States—is still reverberating throughout the national security community. After we posted our master recap of the event and the weapons concepts featured in it, we and our incredible discussion crew here at The War Zone went to work dissecting what was presented in an attempt to parse fact from fiction.

Mar. 2, 2018

Putin boasts new strategic weapons will make US missile defense “useless”

Putin boasts new strategic weapons will make US missile defense “useless”

In his State of the Nation speech today, Russian president Vladimir Putin showed computer animations and videos demonstrating three new classes of strategic weapons under development that are specifically intended to defeat the United States’ ballistic missile defenses. Among them were two weapons powered by miniaturized nuclear reactors: a drone submarine ‘torpedo’ previously revealed in a Russian news leak and a cruise ‘missile’ drone with what Putin described as a virtually unlimited range. The third was a new non-ballistic, hypersonic ICBM capable of evading US missile interceptors.