Tag Archives: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

American ABMs in Europe: Missile defense or offense?

Russia Beyond the Headlines
June 18, 2013|News

June 17, 2013 – At the upcoming G8 summit in Northern Ireland, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Barack Obama are expected to discuss one of the thorniest issues in U.S.-Russian relations: the U.S. missile defense shield in Europe. Although Obama signaled that [...]

Raytheon extends ballistic missile defense capability through radar modernization effort

Raytheon
June 18, 2013|News

PARIS, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — A U.S. Middle East security partner moved one step closer to gaining an enhanced ballistic missile defense capability when Raytheon Company completed the redesign of eight circuit card assemblies for a Foreign Military Sales [...]

Intelligence report: on Russia’s position to NATO anti-missile defence and possible incidents during Zapad 2013

The Lithuania Tribune
June 7, 2013|News

Russia still wants to avoid elements of NATO’s anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence in close vicinity and proposes to the Alliance to divide Europe into responsibility areas, the Second Investigation Department under Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence, in charge of military [...]

NATO technical upgrades support Europe’s largest missile defence exercise

NATO Communications and Information Agency
June 7, 2013|News

From 28 May to 6 June, the NCI Agency contributed to Joint Project Optic Windmill/ Joint Project Optic Alliance 13 (JPOW), the largest exercise in Europe devoted to air and missile defence. The joint and combined Integrated Air and Missile [...]

Russian Official: New Missile Will Beat U.S. Defenses

Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
June 7, 2013|News

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says a planned U.S. missile-defense shield will not be able to stop Russia’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). At a lecture in Moscow on June 7, Rogozin said Russia will continue improving its weapons [...]

Romania reiterates its commitment to timely goals on missile shield elements becoming operational

ACT Media
June 6, 2013|News

Minister of National Defence Mircea Dusa reiterated, at the meeting of the ministers of defense of NATO in Brussels, Bucharest authorities’ commitment to timely meet the objectives assumed by Romania on rendering operational, together with the U.S. partner, of the [...]

Moscow’s Missile Defense Misgivings

Richard Weitz
June 3, 2013|Publications

June 2, 2013 – Russian-NATO differences over ballistic missile defense (BMD) were unsurprisingly a major source of disagreement at the International Conference on “Military and Political Aspects of European Security,” hosted in a major Moscow hotel by the Russian Ministry [...]