Aerospace & Defense
Moscow's most ambitious air-defense system is now on combat duty and wrapped in superlatives — stealth-killer, satellite-reacher, hypersonic-stopper. The verifiable record is far thinner.
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Moscow's most ambitious air-defense system is now on combat duty and wrapped in superlatives — stealth-killer, satellite-reacher, hypersonic-stopper. The verifiable record is far thinner.
Russia advertises a maximum engagement range of 400 kilometers for the S-400's longest-range interceptor, and Washington took the system seriously enough to remove Turkey...
Feared on reputation, bought as defiance — and now possibly traded away in Ankara. The twenty-year arc of Russia's most consequential weapons export. Meet...
Turkey's decade-long S-400 standoff with Washington may be breaking, with a pro-government columnist reporting the Russian missile systems have been sold to a Gulf...
Every few weeks brings another strike on Russia's premier air defense system, and every few weeks the same dismissal: Russia builds S-400s faster than...
Michael Rubin argues that restoring Turkey's place in the Joint Strike Fighter program would reward a decade of the behavior that got Ankara expelled...
Turkey built the Kaan as a declaration of independence from American airpower. Kicked out of the F-35 program in 2019, Ankara poured a decade...
Russia’s S-400 Triumf was supposed to be the U.S. Air Force killer. Moscow called it “the best long-range air defense system in the world.”...
Summary and Key Points: Military modernization expert Kris Osborn analyzes the synergy between the Boeing F-47 ‘NGAD’ sixth-generation fighter and the Northrop Grumman Stand-in...
Harrison Kass, a defense journalist and former U.S. Air Force pilot selectee, evaluates the high-stakes technological duel between 5th-generation stealth and the S-400 Triumf....