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“The transfer of long-range missiles from Iran to Venezuela is not acceptable to the United States and will not be tolerated or permitted,” Elliott Abrams, the State Department Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela told Fox News on Monday. While providing no evidence that such arms transfers have already occurred …

In a bold new proposal, Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded on his existing offer of a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear forces on European soil by suggesting that Russia and the US/NATO engage in so-called “verification measures” (a euphemism for on-site inspections) “regarding the Aegis Ashore systems …

However, Yerevan, while calling the F-16s a “Sword of Damocles” hanging over the people of the disputed enclave, said it hopes the situation won’t escalate to that extent.  The Armenian ambassador to Russia Vardan Toganyan said on Monday that “all measures, including the Islanders,” were on the table if Ankara deployed the jets. …

“The US attempt to deploy land-based, medium-range missiles is consistent with its increasing military presence in the Asia Pacific and so-called ‘Indo-Pacific strategy’ over the past years, a typical demonstration of its Cold War mentality,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday. Washington’s “words and deeds” over recent …

Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami referred to the new weapons in a televised speech on Thursday, revealing that a new surface-to-surface missile, called ‘Haj Qassem,’ has a range of 1,400km. The other projectile, an anti-ship cruise missile, called ‘Abu Mahdi,’ is able to reach targets more than 1,000km away. Footage …

CNN, citing a senior representative of the Pentagon reported that in the United States in March of this year tested a hypersonic missile capable of speeds of at 17 times the speed of sound. The US President Donald trump called the new development “superdupercool”. According to TV channel, the American …

So, as a result of Putin’s meeting with Lukashenka revealed that Russia and Belarus in the foreseeable future will make no attempt to create a unified state. Moreover, the vector of development of relations aimed directly in the opposite direction — at a distance from each other. A recent meeting …

Putin offered Saudi Arabia to buy Russian missile systems to protect oil facilities   Russia is ready to help Saudi Arabia to defend the country with air defense missile systems s-400 and s-300. Such a proposal was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit in Ankara held trilateral …

“Why spend the money when we already spent?” Putin said that Trump offered to buy the Russian hypersonic missiles President Vladimir Putin proposed to his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump will buy Russia’s hypersonic shock complexes, but he said that the United States is working on creating such weapons. This was …

Russian cruise missiles “Caliber” have already arrived to Cuba, but can stay there.   According to the Russian news publication, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” that Russia is actively considering measures in response to the American party testing cruise missiles with a range greater than 500 kilometers, and the most adequate action on …