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One Missile Hides Inside an F‑35, the Other Launches from the Ground: Why Denmark Wants Both
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Denmark has decided to acquire two types of long-range precision weapon: the Norwegian Joint Strike Missile for its F‑35A fighters and the ground-launched ...

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Part drone, part missile. Russia has developed a new munition, the S-71K “Kover,” for the Su-57 and the S-70 “Okhotnik.”
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In late 2025, a new Russian aviation munition, designated S-71K and codenamed “Kovor,” was recorded for the first time in the combat zone in Ukraine. ...

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Khrushchev shut down the “Bury” supersonic winged super-missile project just weeks before its triumph. Why did this happen?
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In 1960, a titanium monster streaked across the sky above the Kapustin Yar test site. Its altitude was over 22 km. Its speed was more than 3,000 km per hour. A ...

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A Cruise Missile Was Hung Under a Mi-28 — But Why? What Can a Helicopter Give the Banderol That an Ordinary Truck Cannot?
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Photos that appeared in September 2026 showing a Mi-28 carrying a small cruise missile under its stub wing initially look like a perfectly logical development ...

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Russia Deployed the Rare 9M729 Missile: Why the Appearance of the “INF Treaty Killer” Proved Far More Significant Than the Strike Itself
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Following the recent strike on Kyiv, analysts’ attention was drawn not so much to the attack itself as to one of the munitions used. Among the debris found, ...

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How did the Soviet Union develop a competitor to the "Tomahawk," and what happened to it?
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In the early 1970s, Lev Lyuliev, chief designer at the “Novator” Design Bureau, approached Defense Minister Ustinov with blueprints for a fundamentally new ...

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Gripen Finally Gets Its Long-Range Spear: Why Sweden Needed Taurus After 20 Years
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For more than two decades, this combination has existed in Saab promotional materials: the compact JAS 39 Gripen carrying two massive Taurus KEPD 350 cruise ...

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Sweden Developed an Engine for a Long-Range Weapon in Less Than a Year. But the Technological Breakthrough Is Not the Engine
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In August 2026, GKN Aerospace unveiled something rather interesting in Sweden: a full-scale mock-up of a new unmanned aerial vehicle together with a compact ...

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Destinus unveiled the Ruta Block 2 winged missile, which has a range of over 450 km, AI guidance, and a 250-kg warhead
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The European aerospace company Destinus Group BV specializes in the development of advanced aviation systems, cruise missiles, and unmanned platforms. The ...

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Why not bring the FAU-1 back into service? MBDA has developed a new, low-cost cruise missile called the Crossbow, with a range of 800 km and a 300-kg warhead
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Naturally, this article doesn’t mention a single word about one of the first cruise missiles, the German FAU-1, which was developed back during World War II. ...

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