#hyperhype intensifies

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Клевещут, что это рендер французского гиперзвукового планирующего крылатого блока V-MaX. https://twitter.com/OpexNews/status/1753317602321916049

Knyaz Pozharsky SSBN floated out.

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***©️******©️******©️******©️******©️***В Северодвинске со стапелей сошел атомный подводный крейсер «Князь Пожарский» - о нос корабля традиционно разбили бутылку шампанского «Это знаковое событие, тем более сейчас, в это непростое время, когда наша страна ведет СВО за правое дело. Этот…

`Since the inception of the nuclear age, nuclear strategists have essentially been trying to do what Phil did when he wooed Rita: Find a fool-proof scientific method that eliminates chance in order to assure that you accomplish your objective on your terms: Rita’s heart in the one instance, and ‘victory’ in a nuclear arms competition without having to fight a nuclear war in the other. Nuclear strategists tried to deter and coerce nuclear-armed opponents, through actions and words, backed up by operational research, game theory, computer science, and systems analysis

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Like Phil, nuclear strategists had to realize the hard way that human interactions, including romance (but also deterrence), to a certain degree rest on accident or chance, which makes it ultimately not quantifiable. For example, there is a great probability, based on statistical analysis, that the works of nuclear strategists and their ideas of nuclear deterrence have contributed to the avoidance of nuclear war if we analyze nuclear crises of the past 70 years. Nonetheless there remains the chance that this was more due to luck. There is also the chance that the reverse is true: Their ideas of nuclear deterrence could have contributed to increasing the likelihood of a nuclear exchange.`

https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/what-groundhog-day-teaches-us-about-nuclear-deterrence/

Thediplomat

What Groundhog Day Teaches Us About Nuclear Deterrence

The movie Groundhog Day teaches an important insight about the fragile underpinning of nuclear deterrence theory.

`A satellite refueling nozzle developed by Northrop Grumman is the first to be selected as a preferred standard for U.S. military satellites, the company announced Jan. 29.

In a move that could shape the in-orbit satellite servicing market, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command designated Northrop Grumman’s Passive Refueling Module (PRM) as a favored interface to enable future in-space refueling of military satellites. The PRM has a docking mechanism to allow a refueling vehicle in orbit to transfer propellant to another satellite to extend its useful life.

Northrop Grumman said the Space Systems Command, which oversees in-space logistics and services programs, also will support the company’s development of an orbital fuel tanker for geosynchronous orbit missions that would carry up to 1,000 kilograms of hydrazine fuel and deliver it to client satellites on demand.`

https://spacenews.com/northrop-grummans-orbital-refueling-port-selected-for-u-s-military-satellites/

SpaceNews

Northrop Grumman's orbital refueling port selected for U.S. military satellites

COMPETING IN SPACE A JOINT PRODUCT OF THE NATIONAL SPACE INTELLIGENCE CENTER AND THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE INTELLIGENCE CENTER https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/Portals/4/Images/2_Space_Slicky_11x17_Web_View_reduced.pdf

COMPETING IN SPACE

A JOINT PRODUCT OF THE NATIONAL SPACE INTELLIGENCE CENTER
AND THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE INTELLIGENCE CENTER

https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/Portals/4/Images/2_Space_Slicky_11x17_Web_View_reduced.pdf

If PrSM has a range of about 550 kilometers and was deployed to areas near US bases in the Arabian Peninsula, then Iranian air bases at Shiraz and Chah Bahar, the missile bases at Bakhtaran and Khorramabad, as well as the air base, ballistic missile production facility, and nuclear site at Isfahan would be held at risk. If PrSM has a range of 700 kilometers, it would also be capable of targeting the Hamadan Air Base as well as the air defenses surrounding the Fordow and Natanz nuclear sites (among many other possible targets).

https://breakingdefense.com/2023/11/deploy-the-precision-strike-missile-to-the-middle-east/

Breaking Defense

Deploy the Precision Strike Missile to the Middle East

The US Army is about to get its hands on a brand new long-range strike capability. In this op-ed, two FDD analysts have ideas about where it's desperately needed.

What a language.

*"...the B-21 will be the only bomber that can perform direct attacks on targets deep inside China and Russia and could be used to clear a path through enemy air defenses for other aircraft or to attack Chinese ships in a Taiwan scenario..."

"...A sufficient number of B-21s will “help ensure the health of the US alliance relationships for the next several decades.”*

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/airpower-experts-us-needs-more-than-100-b-21s/

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Airpower Experts: US Needs More than 100 B-21s to Meet Future High Demand

The nation needs more than 100 B-21s if it is to avoid creating an over-subscribed system, panelists said.

Rather detailed interview w/ Sergey Ryabkov, more or less re-iterating all the existing problems and challenges preventing any arms control progress. https://iz.ru/1612456/semen-boikov/ia-ne-dumaiu-chto-otnosheniia-rossii-i-nato-vosstanoviatsia

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«Я не думаю, что отношения России и НАТО восстановятся»

Замминистра иностранных дел Сергей Рябков — о менторском подходе Вашингтона, запрете на экспорт в США урана и перспективах СНВ-4

MOAR YARS DETER MOAR

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