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The Turkish company BAYKAR has announced its new development – the Kemankes cruise missile. The missile was shown at Teknofest 2023, which is currently taking place in Istanbul. Kemankes boasts an AI-enabled optical guidance system that is responsible for detecting, identifying, and targeting the target during the final segment of the flight. Yeni çağın dijital […]
Ukrainian marines have started using APKWS missile launchers against the occupiers at the front. This follows from a video posted on social media. It was filmed by soldiers of the 37th Marine Brigade. They successfully use high-precision 77-mm guided missiles against the enemy. The video shows the launcher mounted on an HMMWV chassis. After firing, […]
The epic with the Chinese balloon ended with its downing by the American Air Force. The balloon was hit by an F-22 Raptor fighter. To destroy the object, the pilot used the AIM-9X Sidewinder – a missile that is positioned as the most modern in the USA. A U.S Defense Official has stated that a […]
The Bell company, operating in the North American market, has introduced an outboard that allows you to turn any civilian helicopter into a combat one. The idea of its development came to American designers after the introduction of sanctions, which significantly limited the capabilities of the Russian aircraft industry. This forced countries that operate Russian […]
This is at least the fourth time when the enemy used this type of cruise missile to distract air defense forces The Russians again used the Kh-55 missile with a nuclear simulator, the so-called ‘special’ combat unit, during the launch. According to information provided by Defense Express from its own sources, such a missile was […]
The press center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that since September, when Russia began attacks with the help of Iranian Shahed kamikaze drones, the country’s anti-aircraft forces have already shot down more than 540 such drones, as well as about 500 cruise missiles. This is reported by CNN with reference to the military […]
After another Russian shelling in October, representatives of Ukrainian intelligence noticed something strange among the rubble. It was the wreckage of the Kh-55 subsonic cruise missile, developed in the 1970s, with a nuclear warhead. The warhead was removed and ballast was added to disguise the fact that it was not carrying a payload. In an […]
According to our intelligence, the production of X-101 missiles turned out to be twice as large as previously known From February to December 2022, the Russian defense industry was able to produce as many as 240 Kh-101 air-based cruise missiles and about 120 Kalibr sea-based cruise missiles. Thus, the average monthly rate of production of […]
Ukrainian air defense during the last missile attack of the Russian occupying forces demonstrated a high level of efficiency – of all the missiles fired by the Russian Air Force, our anti-aircraft defense shot down about 85%, and it was a ‘combined’ launch – Kh-101 and Kh-555, ‘Kalibri’, Kh- 22, Kh-59 and even Kh-31P. How […]
Promin Aerospace, a small launch vehicle startup, was founded in 2021. Promin continues to plan to conduct the first test of its own small satellite launch technology early next year, despite the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. ‘Over the past 10 months, we have done a lot of research, development and production, and in August, we hired […]