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Israeli Defense Chief Sounds Ready to Hit Iran, Thanks in Part to Iron Dome (Wired's Danger Room blog)

X-47B UCAS-D conducts first land-based catapult shot (Flight Global)

Norway pushes for further assurances over JSM integration on F-35 (Flight Global)

Today in Military History: Nov. 30, 1939, The Winter War (DefenseNews' Intercepts blog)

Aerotechnica upgrades 'Guideline' for an unidentified customer (Jane's) Talk about recycling.

Venezuelan president's health deteriorates (Jane's)

China's first ARM breaks cover (Jane's)

The Plan to Nuke the Moon (Intercepts blog, DefenseNews)

Report: Syrian Rebels Have New Anti-Aircraft Missiles (DefenseNews)

Skepticism to China's Carrier-Borne Jet Should Be Mute A "similar aerodynamic shape" indeed.

Air Forces React To JSF Delays (Aviation Week)

Images Suggest Looming N. Korea Missile Test (DefenseNews)

J-15 Pilots Practice Landings On Chinese Carrier (Aviation Week)

India To Get Soviet-era Aircraft Carrier in 2013 (DefenseNews) Maybe.

Delivery of the first FREMM frigate (Defense Aerospace)

Long march ahead for Chinese naval airpower (Flight Global)

Is China Buying Russia's Su-35 Fighter? (DefenseNews)

Severodvinsk Sub Fires First Cruise Missile (RIA Novosti)

Well, that didn't take long, and I am not surprised.

For sure, but a Krivak is heckuva lot less valuable than a Delta II.

Sweden acts smart to deliver 'complete air force' (Flight Global)

North Korea Preparing Missile Launch: Japanese Media (DefenseNews)

Seems to me that the Krivak would now come alive trying to find that LA while boomer does its level best to sneak away.

Let's not forget that all of our countermeasures efforts come in the terminal engagement. We can't create an offboard chaff cloud, for example, with long range rockets and then run in another direction. In my experience with the scenario(s), I am able to escape nearly two out of every three missiles.

Latest report of the Canadian parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on the F-35. Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, November 2012