The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is marking up the Defense Authorization bill today. The Chair of the Committee, Buck McKeon (R-CA), released his version on Monday.
A couple of notable missile defense items:
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Posts Tagged ‘missiles’
Timeline for an Iranian ICBM: Differing Assessments?
April 29th, 2013
Last week, the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of its Annual Report on Military Power of Iran, dated January 13. Inside Defense wrote a story on it, “DOD: Iran, With Foreign Help, Could Demonstrate ICBM By 2015”. Read More
What Can North Korea’s Missiles Reach?
April 4th, 2013
Since North Korea’s missiles are in the news and seem to be generating confusion, I’m giving here my understanding of where these various systems stand, based in part of my modeling of their capabilities. Read More
The Enduring Illusion of Missile Defense—30 Years Later
March 22nd, 2013
Thirty years ago tomorrow—March 23, 1983—President Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” speech spawned an enthusiasm for missile defense that even today dominates defense discussions in Washington. Much has changed in those 30 years, so where are we? Read More
Markus Schiller’s Analysis of North Korea’s Unha-3 Launcher
February 22nd, 2013
North Korea’s launches of its Unha-3 rocket in April and December 2012, along with the recovery and analysis of debris from the December launch, have provided a lot of new information that was not previously available. That information has allowed me and others to reassess our earlier conclusions about Pyongyang’s rocket, and has led to some significant changes. Read More
Timeline for an Iranian Solid-fuel ICBM?
February 10th, 2013
In assessing the ballistic missile threat, a key issue is estimating how long it might take countries like North Korea and Iran to build missiles that could carry a nuclear-warhead-sized payload to the United States. Both countries use liquid fuel in their satellite launchers and have developed that technology further than solid fuel. Read More
Debris from North Korea’s Launcher: What It Shows
December 27th, 2012
Press reports now say South Korea has recovered four pieces of the first stage of the Unha-3 rocket that North Korea launched on December 11 (U.S. time). Since all these pieces were found in approximately the same area, they must all have come from the first stage. Read More
North Korea’s Satellite
December 15th, 2012
There have been a lot of odd statements about North Korea’s satellite in the press over the last few days. I thought it would be useful to talk about some of them and try to clarify some misconceptions. Read More
North Korea’s April Launch Failure: New Information
December 10th, 2012
Following North Korea’s launch failure in April 2012, we were left with conflicting reports about its cause, and even when it happened during the launch and where the debris fell to earth. A December 4 report in Kyodo News may shed some light on this, but leaves lots of questions. Read More
North Korea’s Launch Trajectory in Google Earth
December 7th, 2012
To help people visualize the trajectory of North Korea’s upcoming launch, I’ve created a file you can download to show the trajectory in Google Earth. Once Google Earth is installed on your computer, download this file, double-click on it, and the trajectory should load and appear in Google Earth. Read More
