Safeguarding Against Catastrophic Threats and Decapitating Strikes

The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a military installation located in Colorado and designed to provide command-and-control functions for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). In the hypothetical event that Russia launched a surprise intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nuclear attack on this base, employing a Russian SS-27 800-kiloton […]

Safeguarding Against Catastrophic Threats and Decapitating Strikes was originally published on Global Security Review.

April 4, 2024
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Russian vulnerabilities (I): Air defences

.The Russian air defences face a double problem; they are stretched thin and they don’t get sufficient support by the flying air force, especially not by AEW aircraft (colloquially a.k.a. AWACS).Being stretched thin means that there is no redundancy; a…

April 4, 2024
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