DefenceTalkIn confirming the deployment of its S-300 and state-of-the art S-400 missile-defense systems in Syria, the Kremlin boasted six months ago that it had secured the country’s air bases from American cruise missiles. But after a barrage of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles hit the Syrian government air base at Shayrat on April 7, where some […]https://www.defencetalk.com/after-u-s-strikes-syrian-air-base-russians-ask-where-were-our-vaunted-air-defense-systems-69690/

DefenceTalkThe United States and its allies would have “no defense” against large numbers of ground-launched cruise missiles of the type recently deployed by Russia, a top US general warned Tuesday. The United States has repeatedly accused Russia of deploying a land-based cruise missile system in contravention of a 1987 US-Russia arms control deal, known as […]https://www.defencetalk.com/no-defence-against-multiple-russian-missiles-us-general-69670/

DefenceTalkThe Bastion (NATO reporting name: SS-C-5 Stooge) coastal defense missile battalions recently stationed on the Kuril Islands shall defend Russia’s territorial waters, straits and naval bases in the region, according to the Izvestia daily. The Russian Defense Ministry has deployed Bal (SS-C-6 Sennight) and Bastion antiship missile systems on Iturup and Kunashir. They will beef […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-deploys-bastion-coastal-defense-missile-systems-on-kuril-islands-69530/

DefenceTalkThe Elektropribor Design Bureau in Saratov is developing a high-speed torpedo dubbed Khishchnik (Russian for ‘raptor’) and designed to replace the Shkval, expert Vladimir Tuchkov writes in an article with the Svobodnaya Pressa online news agency. The blog of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) has reported that Elektropribor is soon to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-developing-khishchnik-high-speed-underwater-missile-68811/

DefenceTalkRussia’s Makeyev State Missile Center recently released the first image of the new RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile on its website, making a big splash among western media, which claimed that the new missile is so powerfully destructive that one is enough to destroy a country the size of France. The publication of Sarmat’s image […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-speeds-up-strategic-missile-upgrade-68560/

DefenceTalkIn a game-changing arms acquisition, India is going to ink a Rs 39,000 crore ($5.8 billion—Ed.) deal for five new-generation Russian S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems, which can destroy incoming hostile aircraft, stealth fighters, missiles and drones at ranges of up to 400-km. India and Russia will also finalise the long-awaited agreement for the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-russia-to-sign-deal-for-s-400-air-defence-missile-systems-68390/

DefenceTalkRussia´s military conducted a series of intercontinental ballistic missile tests on Wednesday, the latest flexing of its muscles as tensions with the US spike over Syria. Russian forces fired a nuclear-capable rocket from a Pacific Fleet submarine in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan, state-run RIA Novosti reported. A Topol missile was shot off […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-tests-ballistic-missiles-amid-tensions-with-west-68371/

DefenceTalkRussia is again deploying nuclear-capable Iskander missiles into its Kaliningrad outpost that borders two NATO members, Lithuania said Saturday, warning the move was aimed at pressuring the West into making concessions over Syria and Ukraine. Poland also reacted angrily to Moscow’s move while Lithuania added that it could breach a key nuclear weapons treaty. “Russia […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-deploys-nuclear-capable-missiles-on-nato-doorstep-68335/

DefenceTalkRussia said it has sent an advanced missile system to the Syrian port of Tartus, as tensions escalate between Moscow and Washington over the five-year conflict. The announcement came after Washington said it was suspending talks with Moscow aimed at reviving a ceasefire deal over Russia’s support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-sends-missile-system-to-syria-port-68276/

DefenceTalkRussia’s Aerospace Forces (Russian acronym: VKS, Vozdushno-Kosmicheskie Sily) will receive a long-range interceptor missile being developed by the indigenous defense industry, according to the service`s Deputy Commander, the Head of the Air Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Viktor Gumenny. “The new long-range interceptor missile is being intensively developed [by the Russian defense industry]. It will allow […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-develops-long-range-interceptor-missile-68028/